Past Events

2020

May

NCATS Advisory Council Meeting
May 14, 2020
Agenda (PDF - 286KB) • WebEx Recording • Federal Register Notice

February

Rare Disease Day at NIH
Feb. 28, 2020
Website • Agenda (PDF - 218KB) • Videocast • Feature Story

January

Expanding AAV Manufacturing Capacity for Rare Disease Gene Therapies
Jan. 28–29, 2020
Website • Videocast

NCATS Advisory Council and CAN Review Board Meeting
Jan. 16, 2020
Agenda (PDF - 218KB) • WebEx Recording • Advisory Council Federal Register Notice • CAN Review Board Federal Register Notice

Assay Guidance Workshop for High-Throughput Screening and Lead Discovery
Jan. 25, 2020
Website/Agenda

2019

December

NCATS Day 2019: Conversations on Responsible Data Sharing
Dec. 17, 2019
Website • Agenda • Videocast

Cures Acceleration Network Review Board Meeting
Dec. 13, 2019
Agenda (PDF - 149KB) • Minutes (PDF - 311KB) • WebEx Recording • Federal Register Notice

Repurposing Off-Patent Drugs: Research & Regulatory Challenges
Dec. 5-6, 2019
Website/Agenda/Registration • Videocast

November

Inaugural NIH Rural Health Seminar
Nov. 18, 2019
Website/Agenda • Videocast

September

Ask an Astronaut: Biomedical Science Edition
Sept. 23, 2019
Website

NCATS Advisory Council and CAN Review Board Meeting
Sept. 19, 2019
Agenda • Minutes (PDF - 265KB) • Videocast • Advisory Council Federal Register Notice (amended) • CAN Review Board Federal Register Notice

Assay Guidance Workshop for High-Throughput Screening and Lead Discovery
Sept. 11-12, 2019

June

Machine Intelligence in Healthcare: Perspectives on Trustworthiness, Explainability, Usability and Transparency
June 11
Website • Agenda (PDF - 140KB) • Webcast

CNS Immunogenicity Considerations for AAV-mediated Gene Therapy
June 11
Website • Agenda (PDF - 164KB) • Videocast

May

NCATS Advisory Council and CAN Review Board Meeting
May 16
Agenda (PDF - 190KB) • Minutes (PDF - 454KB) • Videocast • Federal Register Notice

RE(ACT) Congress AMERICA — International Congress on Research of Rare and Orphan Diseases
May 8-11
Website • Program

April

Accelerating Research on Myalgic Encephalomyelitis/Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
April 4-5
Website • Agenda • Webcast (Day 1) • Webcast (Day 2)

March

Assay Development Principles and Good Research Practices for Rigor and Reproducibility in In Vitro Toxicology (AM03)
March 10
Website/Agenda 

February

Rare Disease Day at NIH
Feb. 28
Website • Agenda • Poster/Exhibit Information •  Webcast

Twitter Chat on Rare Diseases
Feb. 22
Website

The Opioid Crisis and the Future of Addiction and Pain Therapeutics: Opportunities, Tools, and Technologies Symposium
Feb. 7-8
Website • Agenda (PDF - 135KB)

Natural Products and Pain: The Search for Novel Non-Opioid Analgesics
Feb. 6
Website/Agenda

Assay Guidance Workshop for High-Throughput Screening and Lead Discovery
Feb. 2
Website/Agenda

January

NCATS Advisory Council and CAN Review Board Meeting
Jan. 10
Agenda (PDF - 159KB) •  Minutes (PDF - 340KB) •  WebEx Recording • Federal Register Notice

2018

December

Cures Acceleration Network Review Board Meeting
Dec. 14
Agenda (PDF - 107KB) • Minutes (PDF - 374KB) • WebEx Recording • Federal Register Notice

November

Driving Innovation: NCATS Programs to Support Small Businesses
Nov. 27

October

Collaborations across NCATS’ Trial Innovation Network
Oct. 30

CTSA Program Vision: Current Initiatives and Future Goals
Oct. 9

September

NCATS Day 2018: Engaging Patients and Communities for Smarter Science
Sept. 28
Website • Agenda (PDF - 36KB) • Videocast • Posters • Photos • Participant Roster (PDF - 847KB) • Community Engagement Resources • Patient Engagement Resource (PDF 421KB) • NCATS Fact Sheet (PDF - 351KB)

NCATS Advisory Council and CAN Review Board Meeting
Sept. 27
Agenda (PDF - 179KB) • Minutes (PDF - 268KB) • Videocast • Federal Register Notice

Single IRB Review for Multi-Site Research Resource and Infrastructure Development Workshop
Sept. 12
Website

Assay Guidance Workshop for High-Throughput Screening and Lead Discovery
Sept. 10-11
Website • Agenda

August

The Growing Promise of Gene Therapy Approaches to Rare Diseases
Aug. 20-21
Website • Agenda (PDF - 168KB) • Videocast

June

Addressing the Opioid Crisis Through Translational Science “Un-Meeting”
June 2
Website

May

NCATS Advisory Council and CAN Review Board Meeting
May 10
Agenda (PDF - 145KB) • Minutes (PDF - 303KB) • Videocast • Federal Register Notice

Leveraging Community Engagement and Informatics-Based Tools to Increase Participant Recruitment and Retention
May 4
Website 

April

Organs- and Tissues-on-Chips Conference
April 8-12
Website/Agenda

March

Assay Guidance Workshop for High-Throughput Screening and Lead Discovery
March 26-27, 2018
Agenda

Rare Disease Day at NIH
March 1
Website • Agenda (PDF - 150KB) • Webcast

February

Twitter Chat on Rare Diseases
Feb. 23
Website

3-D Printing: Medicine’s New Dimension
Feb. 13
Website 

January

NCATS Advisory Council and CAN Review Board Meeting
Jan. 11
Agenda (PDF - 145KB) • Minutes (PDF - 224KB) • Videocast • Federal Register Notice

2017

December

Cures Acceleration Network Review Board Virtual Meeting
Dec. 15
Federal Register Notice • Agenda (PDF - 101KB) • Minutes (PDF - 170KB)

November

NIH Extracellular RNA Communication Consortium 9th Investigators’ Meeting
Nov. 6-7
Website

October

Second Strategic Partnerships for Drug Repurposing Forum
Oct. 26-27
Website • Agenda

NCATS Data Translator Meeting
Oct. 25
Website/Agenda

Assay Guidance Workshop for High-Throughput Screening and Lead Discovery
Oct. 23
Website • Agenda

Automated Chemical Synthesis Workshop
Oct. 19-20

Translational Research Symposium 2017: Found in Translation
Oct. 4
Website

September

Workshop on Translational Challenges of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Sept. 26
Videocast

Translational Medicine 2017: Enhancing Predictivity in Medicines Development
Sept. 24-26

European Reference Networks on Rare Neurological Diseases Webinar
Sept. 13
Website 

NCATS Toolkit for Patient-Focused Therapy Development: Demonstration and Dissemination Meeting
Sept. 8
Website • Agenda (PDF - 77KB) • Videocast

NCATS Advisory Council and CAN Review Board Meeting
Sept. 7
Federal Register Notice • Videocast • Agenda (PDF - 164KB) • Minutes (PDF - 188KB)

August

The Science of Caregiving: Bringing Voices Together
Aug. 7-8
Website • Agenda (PDF - 257KB)

Assay Guidance Workshop for High-Throughput Screening and Lead Discovery
Aug. 7
Agenda

July

Quantitative Systems Pharmacology and Drug Discovery: Filling the Gaps in Current Models of the R&D Process for Neurotherapeutics
July 26-27
Website

Global Foundation for Peroxisomal Disorders (GFPD) 2017 Scientific Conference: Development of Therapies for Peroxisome Biogenesis Disorders
July 13-14
Website

June

NCATS Day — Partnering with Patients for Smarter Science
June 30
Website • Agenda (PDF - 549KB) • Event Photos

May

NCATS Advisory Council and CAN Review Board Meeting
May 4
Videocast • Agenda (PDF - 114KB) • Minutes (PDF - 216KB)

April

The NIH Microphysiological Systems Program: Tissues-on-Chips for Drug Safety and Efficacy Studies
April 24

March

Engineered Cells and Tissues as Platforms for Discovery and Therapy (K1)
March 9-12
Agenda

Rare and Undiagnosed Diseases: Discover and Models of Precision Therapy (C2)
March 5-8
Agenda

February

Rare Disease Day at NIH
Feb. 27
Website • Agenda (PDF - 134KB) • Webcast

Twitter Chat on Rare Diseases
Feb. 21

Third International Rare Diseases Research Consortium (IRDiRC) Conference
Feb. 8-9
Website • Agenda

Assay Guidance Workshop for High-Throughput Screening and Lead Discovery
Feb. 4
Website

January

NCATS Advisory Council and CAN Review Board Meeting
Jan. 12
Meeting Information • Agenda (PDF - 77KB) • Minutes (PDF - 220KB)

2016

December

NCATS SBIR/STTR Twitter Chat
Dec. 12

Cures Acceleration Network (CAN) Review Board Virtual Meeting
Dec. 9
Agenda (PDF - 115KB) • Federal Register Notice • Minutes(PDF - 214KB)

Therapeutically Relevant Bioassays Webinar
Dec. 7
Website

October

Assay Guidance Workshop for High-Throughput Screening and Lead Discovery
Oct. 27

International Conference on Rare Diseases and Orphan Drugs (ICORD)
Oct. 19-22
Website

New Frontiers in 3-D Cell Culture–Based Screening Technologies
Oct. 13

September

NCATS Advisory Council and CAN Review Board Meeting
Sept. 15
Federal Register Notice • Videocast • Agenda (PDF - 156KB) • Minutes (PDF - 169KB)

Tissue Chips in Space Informational Webinar
Sept. 6
NIH Guide Notice • Related Information

August

SBIR Contract Solicitation Pre-Proposal Webinar
Aug. 24
NIH Guide Notice

July

Securing SBIR and STTR Funding: Support for Women Entrepreneurs and Researchers in Biotech
July 14

Transform Tox Testing Challenge: Innovating for Metabolism Semi-Finalists Workshop
July 8
Website

June

NCATS Advisory Council and CAN Review Board Meeting
June 13
Federal Register Notice • Agenda (PDF - 150KB) • Minutes (PDF - 192KB)

Best Practices of Biomedical Research: Improving Reproducibility and Transparency of Preclinical Research Conference
June 9–10

Trans-Agency Blood Brain Interface Workshop 2016
June 7–8
Videocast

April

Pfizer CTI at NIH Workshop
April 14

Assay Guidance Workshop for High-Throughput Screening and Lead Discovery
April 5-6
Agenda (PDF - 45KB)

March

NIH Translational Science Training Program Boot Camp
March 31-April 1
Website

Society of Toxicology 55th Annual Meeting and ToxExpo
March 13-17
Website

RE(ACT) Congress — International Congress on Research of Rare and Orphan Diseases
March 9-12
Website

Accelerating Innovation: Funding for Women Entrepreneurs in Biotechnology and Health Care Webinar
March 2

February

WORLDSymposium™ 2016
Feb. 29-March 4
Website

Rare Disease Day at NIH
Feb. 29
Agenda (PDF - 178KB) • Live Webcast • More Information

NIH Twitter Chat: Rare Diseases
Feb. 22

January

NCATS Advisory Council and CAN Review Board Meeting
Jan. 14
Meeting Information • Agenda (PDF - 80KB) • Minutes (PDF - 220KB)

2015

December

Cures Acceleration Network (CAN) Review Board Virtual Meeting
Dec. 11
Agenda (PDF - 65KB) • Minutes (PDF - 192KB) • Slides (PDF - 572KB) • Federal Register Notice

November

Common Rule Meeting: Enhancing and Clarifying Consent Forms and Establishing Standard Safeguards
Nov. 18

RARE Webinar: Introducing NCATS’ ORDR Director Petra Kaufmann
Nov. 17

12th Annual Meeting DIA Japan 2015
Nov. 15-17
Website

NCATS Strategic Plan Town Hall Webinar
Nov. 10
View Slides (PDF - 910KB)

NCATS Small Business Funding Opportunities Webinar
Nov. 10

2015 CURED Eosinophilic Gastrointestinal Disease Patient Research Symposium
Nov. 6-8
Website

Common Rule Meeting: Revising and Expanding the Scope of the Common Rule
Nov. 5

NCATS Strategic Plan Town Hall Webinar
Nov. 4
View Slides (PDF - 910KB)

2015 Federal Laboratory Consortium for Technology Transfer (FLC) Mid-Atlantic Regional Meeting & I2C Conference
Nov. 2-3

Seventh Annual Partnering for Cures Conference
Nov. 1-3
Website

October

Common Rule Meeting: Streamlining Institutional Review Board Review
Oct. 29

10th Annual Translational Stem Cell Research Conference
Oct. 28-29
Website

NCATS Strategic Plan Town Hall Webinar
Oct. 26
View Slides (PDF - 910KB)

Rare Diseases and Orphan Products Breakthrough Summit
Oct. 21-22
Website

Common Rule Meeting: Requiring Consent for Research with Biospecimens and Allowing Broad Consent
Oct. 14

2015 Erdheim Chester Disease Medical Symposium and Patient & Family Gathering
Oct. 8
Website

2015 Neurobiology of Disease in Children Symposium
Oct. 7-8
Website

September

27th Annual Fanconi Anemia Research Fund Scientific Symposium
Sept. 17-20
Website

C&EN Virtual Symposium: Advances in Drug Discovery and Development
Sept. 16

NCATS Advisory Council and CAN Review Board Meeting
Sep. 3
Meeting Information

August

Genomic Integrity
Aug. 1–5

July

Fourth International RASopathies Symposium
July 17-19, 2015
Website

Assay Guidance Workshop for High-Throughput Screening and Lead Discovery
July 17, 2015

Personalized Medicine: Novel Biologic Therapies for Rare Eosinophilic Disorders
July 14, 2015

June

Technical Assistance Video for CTSA Recruitment Innovation Centers
June 22
Access the Video

NCATS Advisory Council and CAN Review Board Meeting
June 18
Meeting Information

Webinar: Funding Opportunities for Early-Stage Companies
June 11

May

Second EATRIS Conference: Building Bridges in Translational Medicine
May 27–28

Webinar: Funding and Resources to Catalyze Translation from Lab to Patient
May 13

April

International Society for Extracellular Vesicles (ISEV) Annual Meeting and Joint Education Day
April 23–26

Translational Science 2015
April 16–18
Website

Pfizer's Centers for Therapeutic Innovation (CTI) Seminar and One-on-One Meetings for NIH Intramural Researchers
April 13-14

February

Fifth AIMBE/NIH Workshop on Validation and Qualification of New In Vitro Tools and Models for the Preclinical Drug Discovery Process
Feb. 12

Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) 4th Annual Conference & Exhibition
Feb. 7–11

January

NCATS Advisory Council and CAN Review Board Meeting
Jan. 15
Meeting Information

Workshop to Explore the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Citizen Science
Jan. 13–14
Website

2014

December

Cures Acceleration Network (CAN) Review Board Meeting
Dec. 12
Minutes (PDF - 256.43 KB) • Agenda (PDF - 107.51 KB)

Intellectual Property Webinar Series: Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights
Dec. 9–11

November

Partnering for Cures
Nov. 16–18
Website

Small Business Grants (SBIR/STTR) Webinar for Applicants
Nov. 7, 2014
Webinar

October

Next-Generation R&D Partnerships: The NCATS Success Story
Oct. 29
Website

Addressing Irreproducibility in Target Validation
Oct. 23
Website

16th Annual NIH Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) Conference
Oct. 21–23

September

NCATS Advisory Council and CAN Review Board Meeting
Sept. 19
Minutes (PDF - 255.4 KB) • Agenda (PDF - 92.79 KB)

August

National Conference on Engaging Patients, Families, and Communities in all Phases of Translational Research to Improve Health
Aug. 21–22
Website

May

NCATS Advisory Council and CAN Review Board Meeting
May 16
Minutes (PDF - 642.07 KB) • Federal Register Notice • Agenda (PDF - 66.59 KB) • Working Group Report on the IOM CTSA Report (PDF - 413.86 KB)

March

Fourth AIMBE/NIH Workshop on Validation and Qualification of New In Vitro Tools and Models for the Preclinical Drug Discovery Process
March 6–7
Website

NIH SBIR/STTR Pre-Submission Update Webinar
March 6
Videocast • Resources

February

Rare Disease Day at NIH
Feb. 28
Agenda (PDF - 188.3 KB)

January

NCATS Advisory Council and CAN Review Board Meeting
Jan. 16
Minutes (PDF - 220.06 KB) • Federal Register Notice • Agenda (PDF - 67.28 KB) • Videocast

2013

December

Cures Acceleration Network (CAN) Review Board Meeting
Dec. 12
Minutes (PDF - 455.22 KB) • Agenda (PDF - 56.37 KB)

Reddit AMA (Ask Me Anything): Rare Diseases and the Research Process
Dec. 4
Chat Link

November

Technical Assistance Webinar for RFA-RM-13-011 "Development of a Knowledge Management Center for Illuminating the Druggable Genome (U54)"
Illuminating the Druggable Genome (IDG) Pre-Application Meeting
Nov. 1

October

Global Genes | RARE Webinar Series
Understanding Rare Disease Registries (Part Two)
Oct. 23
Website

September

NCATS Advisory Council and CAN Review Board Meeting
Sept. 16
Minutes (PDF - 430.97 KB) • Agenda (PDF - 71.61 KB) • Videocast

NCATS Research and Development Day
Sept. 12
Website • Agenda (PDF - 314.24 KB)

August

6th Annual Clinical and Translational Science Award (CTSA) National Conference
Science of Community Engaged Research: Future Directions
Aug. 22–23
Website

July

Global Genes | RARE Webinar Series
Understanding Rare Disease Registries (Part One)
July 31
Website

June

Adaptive Designs for Clinical Trials: Opportunities for Translational Research
June 10

6th Annual Clinical Research Management Workshop
June 3–4

May

NCATS Advisory Council and CAN Review Board Meeting
May 17
Minutes (PDF - 305.7 KB) • Agenda (PDF - 138.42 KB) • Videocast

April

Translational Science 2013: Increasing the Value of Your Research through Team Science
April 17–19
Website

NIH Biospecimens Interest Group (BIG)
April 4

February

Rare Disease Day
Feb. 28–March 1
Website • Agenda (PDF - 206.46 KB) • Videocast - Day 2

January

NCATS Advisory Council and CAN Review Board Meeting
Jan. 23
Minutes (PDF - 530.29 KB) • Agenda (PDF - 98.22 KB) • Videocast

2012

November

FDA-NIH Workshop: The Science of Small Clinical Trials
Nov. 27–28
Website

October

2012 Sleep Research Network Meeting
Oct. 22–23

3rd Annual Conference on Clinical Research for Rare Diseases
Oct. 2

NIH Microphysiological Systems Program: First Investigators’ Meeting
Oct. 1–2

September

NCATS Advisory Council and CAN Review Board Meeting
Sept. 14
Minutes (PDF - 227.9 KB) (Corrigendum) (PDF - 80.64 KB) • Federal Register Notice • Council Agenda (PDF - 93.58 KB) • CAN Review Board Agenda (PDF - 254.23 KB) • Videocast

Gene Transfer and Rare Diseases Workshop
Sept. 13

August

5th Annual National CTSA Community Engagement Conference: Methods, Metrics and Outcomes: Evaluating the Success of Community Engaged Research
Aug. 23–24

July

CTSA Public-Private Partnerships Webinar Series
Prize4Life & NIH Program on Public-Private Partnerships
July 25

CTSA Technical Assistance Webinar for RFA-TR-12-006 
July 23

June

CTSA Public-Private Partnerships Webinar Series
Looking for the Win-Win: How Regeneron's Public-Private Partnerships Fuel Innovation
June 27

Therapeutics Discovery Technical Assistance Webinar
June 25
Presentation (PDF - 2,004.91 KB)

5th Annual Clinical Research Management Workshop: Learning by Doing: Applying Evidence-based Tools to Re-engineer Clinical Research Management
June 4–5

Maximizing the Goals of the Cures Acceleration Network to Accelerate the Development of New Drugs and Diagnostics: A Workshop
June 4–5
Website

May

Rare Diseases: The Challenges Presented by Biospecimens, Patient Registries, Electronic Heath Records and Bioethics
May 31
Videocast

CTSA Public-Private Partnerships Webinar Series
The International Clinical Compound Library (ICCL): Accelerating the Development of New Therapies for Many Global Unmet Medical Needs
May 23

NCATS’ Therapeutics for Rare and Neglected Diseases Program Road Show
May 22

Workshop on Natural History Studies of Rare Disease: Meeting the Needs of Drug Development and Research
May 16–17

March

Collaboration in Action
March 21

February

Rare Disease Day at NIH
Feb. 29
Rare Disease Day: Spotlight on Solidarity

Virtual Town Hall with NCATS Leadership
Feb. 27

Fiscal Year 2013 Budget in Brief: Strengthening Health and Opportunity for All Americans
Feb. 13
NCATS Congressional Justification (PDF - 782.59 KB)