FAUCI DIARY ARCHIVE — Wednesday, December 8, 2010
https://faucisdiary.com/diary/2010-12-08

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DIARY ENTRY — Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Source: Diary Prequel, p. 241 of 2026.07.27_Diary-Prequel-.pdf
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Science Management Review Board (SMRB) of NIH (of which I am a
member) has been and continues to discuss Francis Collins’ intention of merging NIDA
and NIAAA, dissolving NCRR, as well as and more importantly creating a National
Center for the Advancement of Translational Science (NCATS) at NIH to include the
CTSAs and CAN RAID TRND and Molecular libraries. Francis is dead set on starting a
new center and is using the SMRB to endorse it. I have made it clear that I do not think
that this is a good idea since it is redundant (nothing broke). Also, bad idea at a time of
flat, if not decreasing, NIH budget.