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Petsko Genome Biology 2011,12:105 /2011/12/2/105 COMMENT There is a sanity clause Gregory A Petsko* Last month I tried to inject some sanity into the debate currently, so if one is to be added, something has to go. about the establishment of a new National Center for Collins decided last year to combine the National Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) at the Institute on Drug Abuse and the National Institute on National Institutes of Health (NIH). NCATS, the favored Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism into a new Addictions child of NIH Director Francis Collins, has as its stated institute, which would free up a slot, but that merger is scienti?c rationale: “to develop and o?er innovative on a long time line and, as I explained last month, Collins services and expertise in moving promising products is in a hurry to get NCATS started. So he has proposed through the development pipeline, as well as develop eliminating NCRR and, in addition to vast anxieties on novel approaches to therapeutics development, stimulate the part of the people who work there, this decision has new avenues for basic scienti?c discovery, and comple- created a stir among research scientists who depend on ment the strengths of existing NIH research activities”. the resources that NCRR provides, and among NIH My argument, you may recall, was that it was right to supporters in Congress, some of whom are starting to worry about this new initiative to facilitate curing diseases being oversold to Congress and the US public, just as the War on Cancer and the Human Genome Project and the NIH budget doubling and the Structural feel that the elimination of that Center and the establish- ment of a new one is being done without due deliberation and consultation. At the moment, NCRR support