angst A proposal to create a new translational research center at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) is the source in the agency and beyond. Under the plan being discussed, NIH will have to dissolve its National Center for Research Resources (NCRR). And that raises concern about the fate of NCRR programs.
The proposed new center would take over scientific and clinical translational Price (CTSAs) of NCRR as one of its components. These large grants to medical centers totaled $ 458 million per year, about a third of the $ 1.3 billion budget NCRR. CTSAs transfer to a research center makes sense, some observers say, but leaves the question of what would happen to the rest of NCRR portfolio? It includes a range of programs, construction and instrumentation prices, support for NIH primate centers and research and development grants for states that do not have much NIH funding.
"There is great concern in the community and in the [NIH] institutes" on where these programs would be moved, said David Moore of the Association of American Medical Colleges in Washington, DC for example, the National Institute of allergy and infectious diseases could get primate centers that do a lot of research on infectious diseases, he said. But other programs may not be an obvious fit in another institute .
the fate of NCRR could be decided Tuesday at a meeting of the Board of scientific management review of the NIH.
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