Assembling the puzzle

NCATS will be created from pre-existing NIH programmes. Their budgets give a sense of their relative scale.
Programme Original NIH home Funding in 2011
Clinical and Translational Science Awards National Center for Research Resources (NCRR) $460.5 million (from NCRR); $22.7 million (from NIH Common Fund*)
Components of the Molecular Libraries Program National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) $21.4 million (from Common Fund)
Therapeutics for Rare and Neglected Diseases NHGRI $24 million (from all NIH institutes and centres)
Bridging Interventional Development Gaps (formerly called RAID) NHGRI $15 million (from Common Fund)
Office of Rare Diseases Research Office of the director $17.8 million
NIH–FDA Regulatory Science Initiative Office of the director $2.7 million (from Common Fund)
Cures Acceleration Network New $0 ($10 million for 2012)

*The NIH Common Fund is a discretionary fund for short-term, trans-institute programmes, administered through the office of the director.

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