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Suggested Citation:"Front Matter." Institute of Medicine. 2013. The CTSA Program at NIH: Opportunities for Advancing Clinical and Translational Research. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/18323.
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THE CTSA PROGRAM AT NIH

Opportunities for Advancing Clinical and Translational Research

Committee to Review the Clinical and Translational Science
Awards Program at the National Center for Advancing
Translational Sciences

Board on Health Sciences Policy

Alan I. Leshner, Sharon F. Terry, Andrea M. Schultz
and Catharyn T. Liverman, Editors

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OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMIES

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COMMITTEE TO REVIEW THE CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE AWARDS PROGRAM AT THE NATIONAL CENTER FOR ADVANCING TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCES

ALAN I. LESHNER (Chair), American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, DC

SHARON F. TERRY (Vice-Chair), Genetic Alliance, Washington, DC

SUSAN AXELROD, Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy, Chicago, IL

ENRIQUETA C. BOND, Burroughs Wellcome Fund (Emeritus), Marshall, VA

ANN C. BONHAM, Association of American Medical Colleges, Washington, DC

SUSAN J. CURRY, University of Iowa, Iowa City

PHYLLIS A. DENNERY, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

RALPH I. HORWITZ, GlaxoSmithKline, King of Prussia, PA

JEFFREY P. KAHN, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD

ROBIN T. KELLEY, National Minority AIDS Council, Washington, DC

MARGARET MCCABE, Boston Children’s Hospital, MA

EDITH A. PEREZ, Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, FL

CLIFFORD J. ROSEN, Maine Medical Center Research Institute, Scarborough

IOM Staff

CATHARYN T. LIVERMAN, Study Director

ANDREA M. SCHULTZ, Study Director

MARGARET A. MCCOY, Program Officer (beginning March 2013)

CLAIRE F. GIAMMARIA, Research Associate

JUDITH L. ESTEP, Program Associate

ANDREW M. POPE, Director, Board on Health Sciences Policy

Consultant

VICTORIA WEISFELD, Technical Writer

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Reviewers

This report has been reviewed in draft form by individuals chosen for their diverse perspectives and technical expertise, in accordance with procedures approved by the National Research Council’s Report Review Committee. The purpose of this independent review is to provide candid and critical comments that will assist the institution in making its published report as sound as possible and to ensure that the report meets institutional standards for objectivity, evidence, and responsiveness to the study charge. The review comments and draft manuscript remain confidential to protect the integrity of the deliberative process. We wish to thank the following individuals for their review of this report:

Gordon R. Bernard, Vanderbilt University

Wylie Burke, University of Washington

Jonathan Davis, Tufts University School of Medicine

Jaqueline B. Fine, Merck Research Laboratories

Garret A. FitzGerald, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Robert C. Gallo, University of Maryland School of Medicine

Margaret Grey, Yale University School of Nursing

Kevin Grumbach, University of California, San Francisco

William N. Kelley, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine

Michael D. Lairmore, University of California, Davis

Elizabeth O. Ofili, Morehouse School of Medicine

Bray Patrick-Lake, Clinical Trials Transformation Initiative

Doris Rubio, University of Pittsburgh

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Although the reviewers listed above have provided many constructive comments and suggestions, they did not see the final draft of the report before its release. The review of this report was overseen by Floyd E. Bloom, The Scripps Research Institute. Appointed by the Institute of Medicine, he was responsible for making certain that an independent examination of this report was carried out in accordance with institutional procedures and that all review comments were carefully considered. Responsibility for the final content of this report rests entirely with the authoring committee and the institution.

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Preface

Private- and public-sector investment in health care is immense, and wide agreement exists in both sectors that the U.S. health care system needs to be improved in many ways in order to reduce costs and provide equitable access to high-quality care. The availability of cutting-edge technologies and new preventive and therapeutic interventions is a result of the United States’ historic investment in biomedical and health research. New efforts in clinical and translational research hold great promise for even more effective and efficient ways to improve the health of our population. Investments in research support tools, informatics, infrastructure, and training and education are essential to facilitate new discoveries and to move promising discoveries in basic science and clinical research into use in clinics, hospitals, and homes.

In 2006, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) began an investment in the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program, a bold initiative aimed at facilitating and accelerating clinical and translational research—lofty and challenging goals. Simultaneously building on a legacy program (NIH’s General Clinical Research Center Program) and pioneering a new initiative is never easy.

Our Institute of Medicine (IOM) committee was given the task of assessing progress and recommending a path forward to help improve the efficiency and effectiveness of one of the nation’s most important resources for clinical and translational science. As we assessed the CTSA Program, we were fully cognizant of both the importance of our task and the opportunity it presented. Among our conclusions was that the CTSA Program has had many initial successes in creating academic homes for clinical and translational research, providing education and training, and beginning to build the tools and partnerships needed to advance clinical

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and translational science. As requested by the sponsor, we identified ways the program can be strengthened.

The future of the CTSA Program is exciting, as well as daunting. Although there is great potential for the creation of new preventive and treatment approaches, there remain numerous institutional, logistical, and methodological barriers to doing so. Moving clinical and translational research forward will greatly benefit from the strong leadership, creative partnerships, and institutional commitments that the CTSA Program can bring to this effort.

It was our pleasure and privilege to lead the efforts of this IOM committee—superb committee members and outstanding staff who have worked diligently to learn about this complex program and contemplate the potential for its future. The expertise and grace of these generous individuals combined to create deep discourse and solid consensus.

We thank everyone who provided testimony, gave presentations, and participated in discussions with the committee. We are grateful to the staff of the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) who responded thoroughly to our numerous inquiries. The committee is truly appreciative of the many individuals who provided the diversity and breadth of knowledge and opinion needed to complete this study.

The CTSA Program has made some remarkable progress to date and has great potential to further advance clinical and translational science and improve human health. We look forward to seeing this potential fully realized in the coming years.

Alan I. Leshner, Chair
Sharon F. Terry, Vice-Chair
Committee to Review the Clinical and Translational Science Awards Program at the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences

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In 2006 the National Institutes of Health (NIH) established the Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSA) Program, recognizing the need for a new impetus to encourage clinical and translational research. At the time it was very difficult to translate basic and clinical research into clinical and community practice; making it difficult for individual patients and communities to receive its benefits. Since its creation the CTSA Program has expanded, with 61 sites spread across the nation's academic health centers and other institutions, hoping to provide catalysts and test beds for policies and practices that can benefit clinical and translation research organizations throughout the country.

The NIH contracted with the Institute of Medicine (IOM) in 2012 to conduct a study to assess and provide recommendations on appropriateness of the CTSA Program's mission and strategic goals and whether changes were needed. The study was also address the implementation of the program by the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) while exploring the CTSA's contributions in the acceleration of the development of new therapeutics. A 13-member committee was established to head this task; the committee had collective expertise in community outreach and engagement, public health and health policy, bioethics, education and training, pharmaceutical research and development, program evaluation, clinical and biomedical research, and child health research.

The CTSA Program at NIH: Opportunities for Advancing Clinical and Translational Research is the result of investigations into previous program evaluations and assessments, open-session meetings and conference class, and the review of scientific literature. Overall, the committee believes that the CTSA Program is significant to the advancement of clinical and translational research through its contributions. The Program would benefit from a variety of revisions, however, to make it more efficient and effective.

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