Mike's Blog

We are fast approaching our upcoming Annual CTSA Program meeting taking place November 6 – 8, right here in Crystal City (and that rhymes with fiscal and we’re in fiscal year 24 in the USG odd way of telling time). As in the past several years, the program has been...

This month’s Ansible provides an update to the August Ansible regarding the CTSA Program awards in FY23, the first year under new mechanisms. 

As expected from our modelling, we can report that the public data available from NIH RePORTER reveals that the 16 new UM1 CTSAs that...

"An economist is an expert who will know tomorrow why the things he predicted yesterday didn't happen today. "

- Evan Esar

While we may be in the final quarter of FY23, for grants management, this is crunch time, analogous to tax accountants in April. As such, while many grant awards and...

Way back in 2007, a TV gameshow aired, “Are You Smarter than a 5^th Grader?” Contestants answered questions taken from textbooks for 1^st through 5^th grade. Top prize was $1 million (two people took home the top prize, a public-school superintendent and a Nobel prize winner...

Several pressing biomedical research workforce issues have intensified in recent years: from the critical need to bolster diversity in science and medicine¹ to the shrinking pool of postdocs² to the enduring shortage of clinician scientists.³ The common thread uniting proposed solutions to these chronic issues is effective mentorship.^1-7

NCATS continues to...