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The NIH's role in accelerating translational sciences

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The NIH's proposed initiatives in translational science deserve solid financial backing from legislators and vocal support from the biomedical community.

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  1. John C. Reed is at the Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute, La Jolla, California, USA.,

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  2. E. Lucile White is at the High-Throughput Screening Center and Enzymology Laboratory, Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, Alabama, USA.,

    E Lucile White

  3. Jeffrey Aubé is at the Department of Medicinal Chemistry, Kentucky University, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.,

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  4. Craig Lindsley is in the Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.,

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  5. Min Li is in the Department of Neuroscience, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.,

    Min Li

  6. Larry Sklar is at the Center for Molecular Discovery, University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA.,

    Larry Sklar

  7. Stuart Schreiber is in the Department of Chemical Biology, Broad Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.,

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Reed, J., White, E., Aubé, J. et al. The NIH's role in accelerating translational sciences. Nat Biotechnol 30, 16–19 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1038/nbt.2087

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