Anxiety continues to destabilize the biomedical community on a decision last month by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to create a new translational research center and, in the process of dismantling an existing center. Sunday, NIH deputy director Lawrence Tabak launched a "straw model" for how the pieces of the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) could be distributed.
Table erases any ambiguity remains whether NCRR itself would still exist, as every part of it (with the exception of the manager's office) has appointed a new home. one large piece NIH clinical translational Science Prize and a $ 40 million program supporting clinical research at approximately 60 medical centers would go to the new National Centre for advancing translational sciences (NCATS). Several other components would be disbursed between the National Institute of General medical sciences (such as resources model disease), imaging NIH institute and its research institute on minority health.
But most of NCRR portfolio, including primate models, biomedical technology, and IDEA grants for states with little funding NIH-enter a "temporary infrastructure unit" in the NIH Director Bureau.
Some viewers, like Howard Garrison of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology, see provisional unit as good news. Because these major programs cut across diseases and institutes, they are "a different animal" single investigator grants and must be managed differently, he said. "Put them in the principal's office at least provides an opportunity to save a kind of home for resources programs," said Garrison. He admits, however, that he does not know yet what the ultimate fate of this unit would be or if it would fit in the current budget of the NIH.
But some commentators on the feedback website wonder why NIH NIH programs move in an intermediate unit that looks very similar to NCRR. "is -it justification for eliminating NCRR somewhere that I missed? "He requested Scott Snyder.
NIH declined to comment on Science Insider on the model of straw, but the agency plans to hold conference calls this week with stakeholders (the model of the straw is "designed to be filled in; we expect critical evaluation." says Tabak).
Since the Board of scientific management review NIH voted Dec. 7 to create NCATS, the agency has received more than 1,100 comments, most expressing concern about the fate of NCRR programs. (Comment Representative from 09 Nobel Price Elizabeth Blackburn, who studied the origin telomeres using protozoan Tetrahymena, "I urge you to make every effort to ensure that the proposed reorganization at the NIH does not compromise the center stock Tetrahymena -.. it is a critical resource ")
And diplomatic remarks least appeared elsewhere on a blog last week, a commenter named Padrino seemed unsatisfied with the efforts of the NIH awareness, interrogating the NIH calendar. "the intention to get all of dismantling NCRR accomplished during the holidays, when university researchers (stakeholders most threatened) were absent or out of action?" Padrino demand. " There was no trace of genuine dialogue or consultation in this whole affair. "
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