UAB Comprehensive Cancer Center Magazine Fall 2015 | Page 15

quick takes RESE ARCH BRIEFS NIH Awards Nearly $34 Million to UAB Center for Clinical and Translational Science The National Institutes of Health has awarded the UAB Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) $33.59 million over four years to continue the center’s programs advancing translational research. Since its initial funding in 2008 through Alabama’s only Center for Translational Science v&BF