Director's Messages

Joni Rutter gives an overview of the NCATS Strategic Plan for 2025–2030 and shares next steps.

Joni Rutter highlights crimps in the translational pipeline and approaches for developing new treatments twice as fast over the next decade.

Joni Rutter promotes Rare Disease Day at NIH and shares two key areas of rare diseases research that need to be addressed.

NCATS is committed to raising awareness about rare diseases and identifying treatments to address this urgent public health issue. The annual Rare Disease Day at NIH event held this year on March 1, offers an opportunity to advance this mission.

NCATS quickly pivoted many of its existing platforms, technologies and programs to address COVID-19 in March. The translational science approaches to COVID-19 similarly can speed solutions for many diseases and future pandemics.

New COVID-19 data integration projects show the power of data sharing to address a public health crisis like the COVID-19 pandemic. NCATS’ new online resources describe NCATS work that brings a translational science approach to addressing COVID-19.

Christopher P. Austin, M.D., shares how his encounter with an end-stage ALS patient shaped his understanding of the personal and public health benefits of translating scientific discoveries into new treatments for people with rare diseases