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Abbreviation | NCATS |
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Formation | December 23, 2011 |
Type | U.S. government agency |
Legal status | Active |
Headquarters | Bethesda, Maryland, US |
Director | Joni L. Rutter |
Parent organization | National Institutes of Health |
Affiliations | United States Public Health Service |
Website | ncats |
The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) was established on December 23, 2011[1] and is located in Bethesda, Maryland. NCATS is one of 27 institutes and centers of the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The mission of NCATS is to transform scientific discoveries into new treatments and cures for disease that can be delivered faster to patients. The budget provided to NCATS for fiscal year 2018 is $557,373,000.[2]