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.
Research
Tissue Chips in Space
NCATS-supported researchers will send miniaturized tissue chip systems to the International Space Station on April 30. Four projects using the systems will support the study of aging-related conditions and potential treatments for them. 
NCATS-supported researchers have developed an automated machine-learning approach to diagnose genetic diseases in seriously ill children. This new approach could allow faster diagnosis, initiation of treatment, and ultimately, better outcomes.
People with chronically itchy skin, take heart. NCATS researchers report that blocking a receptor on the surface of spinal cord neurons may help relieve the chronic need to scratch. The study appeared online in Science Translational Medicine.
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.
Improving the process by which diagnostics and therapeutics are developed.
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.
