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Grant Money Available to Reduce Health Disparities

June 27, 2022 - Grantee/Partner News

  • Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program

Factors Causing Low COVID-19 Vaccination Have Spilled Over to Lower Flu Vaccination Rates, Study Finds

June 15, 2022 - Media Coverage

  • Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program

Using AI to Advance Understanding of Long COVID Syndrome

June 7, 2022 - Grantee/Partner News

  • Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to present considerable public health challenges in the United States and around the globe. One of the most puzzling is why many people who get over an initial and often relatively mild COVID illness later develop new and potentially debilitating symptoms. These symptoms run the gamut including fatigue, shortness of breath, brain fog, anxiety, and gastrointestinal trouble.

The National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C), a national, publicly available data resource sponsored by NCATS, is part of NIH’s Researching COVID to Enhance Recovery (RECOVER) initiative, which aims to improve understanding of Long COVID.

Study Finds Immune Dysfunction Is a Significant Risk Factor for COVID-19 Breakthrough Infection

June 3, 2022 - NCATS News

  • Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program

The National COVID Cohort Collaborative Data Enclave helps researchers identify a link between COVID-19 breakthrough infections and people with abnormal or impaired immune systems.

Immune Modulator Drugs Improved Survival for People Hospitalized with COVID-19

June 2, 2022 - NCATS News

  • COVID-19
  • Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program

A large NCATS-coordinated, randomized, placebo-controlled clinical trial showed that treating adults hospitalized with COVID-19 with infliximab or abatacept — drugs widely used to treat certain autoimmune diseases — substantially improved clinical status and reduced deaths but did not significantly shorten time to recovery.

Hydrocortisone Does Not Prevent Lung Complication in Extremely Preterm Infants

March 23, 2022 - NCATS News

  • Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program

Hydrocortisone is no more effective than placebo at preventing damage that can result from oxygen and ventilator therapy necessary to keep preterm infants alive, according to research supported in part by NCATS. The study of a potential treatment for the condition, known as bronchopulmonary dysplasia, appears in The New England Journal of Medicine.

Last updated on March 31, 2026