NCATS CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE AWARDS (CTSA) PROGRAM: COORDINATION, COMMUNICATION AND OPERATIONS SUPPORT (CCOS)

CTSA项目的使命是更快地为更多的患者提供更多的治疗方法。在其二十多年的存在中，该计划已经发展到60多个研究中心和核心资源，如试验创新网络。为了帮助管理和凝聚如此庞大的分布式结构，NCATS创建了一个协调中心（CC），其任务是促进协作科学团队的工作，提供后勤支持，并确保信息在网络上的无缝流动。目前的CTSA CC是2017年授予的领先创新与协作中心（CLIC）。

The mission of the CTSA Program is to bring more therapies to more patients, faster. In its more than two decades of existence, the Program has grown to over 60 research Hubs and core resources such as the Trial Innovation Network. To help manage and bring cohesion to such a large and distributed structure, NCATS created a coordination center (CC) with the mission to facilitate the work of the collaborative scientific teams, provide logistical support, and ensure a seamless flow of information across the network. The current CTSA CC is the Center for Leading Innovation and Collaboration (CLIC), a grant awarded in 2017. The new CTSA CC, the Coordination, Communication and Operations Support (CCOS), represents a new approach that leverages a contract mechanism, which provides NCATS with more direct control over the priorities of the CC and the ability to pivot nimbly and rapidly to address changes in the strategic priorities for the CTSA. This transition to a contract will bring efficiencies and enable us to deliver what we believe the CTSAs need: a state-of-the-art operational center of excellence that will bring to bear reproducible processes, technological excellence, and a relentless focus on transforming data into knowledge. The transition also brings challenges, which we are addressing by assembling a team with the translational sciences credentials of an academic center, the institutional knowledge of CLIC, and the operational excellence of contractors with the highly relevant experience of managing coordinating centers for large NIH research consortia.