Research

NCATS research addresses scientific and operational challenges that slow the development of the new interventions to improve human health. The Center aims to make translational science more efficient, less expensive and less risky.

NCATS Internship Helps Promising Student Soar

NCATS mentors students to strengthen their skills across research disciplines and help prepare them for successful scientific careers. Meet summer 2018 intern Bryan Queme.

3-D model of a human left heart ventricle

Working Model of a Heart Chamber

Researchers supported by NCATS’ Tissue Chip for Drug Screening program have developed a 3-D working model of a human heart chamber.

An astronaut holds a kidney tissue chip.

NIH-Funded Tissue Chips Rocket to International Space Station

The first of several sets of NCATS tissue chips launch into space. Researchers will explore the effects of microgravity on the human immune system.

Pre-Clinical Innovation

Improving the process by which diagnostics and therapeutics are developed.

Clinical Innovation

Demonstrating more efficient, collaborative approaches to clinical research.

Strategic Alliances & Licensing

Supporting technology development and partnerships to disseminate promising new approaches.

Patient/Community Engagement & Health Information

Engaging patients in every step of the research process to build trust and improve study quality.

Pre-Clinical Innovation

Improving the process by which diagnostics and therapeutics are developed.

Clinical Innovation

Demonstrating more efficient, collaborative approaches to clinical research.

Strategic Alliances & Licensing

Supporting technology development and partnerships to disseminate promising new approaches.

Patient/Community Engagement & Health Information

Engaging patients in every step of the research process to build trust and improve study quality.

Research at NCATS

NCATS research projects and initiatives focus on addressing scientific and technical challenges to reduce, remove, or bypass bottlenecks in the development of new treatments and tests that will ultimately improve human health. The Center studies translation on a system-wide level to accelerate the development of interventions for more than one disease.

Through its research initiatives, NCATS develops new approaches, technologies, resources, and models; demonstrates their usefulness in a specific disease or case study; and disseminates the data, analyses the methods to the larger scientific community.

NIH-NASA Biomedical Research Activities

NIH and NASA are exploring how biomedical research can address the challenges of deep space exploration and benefit human health in space and on Earth.

Access NCATS Expertise & Resources

NCATS Programs & Initiatives