title: Herding cats.
abstract: The U.S. National Institutes of Health's new National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) should be refocused to spur innovation and renamed in a way that doesn't further polarize the scientific community. This Commentary offers some suggestions for both types of transformations.
authors.forename: Gregory A
authors.initials: GA
authors.lastname: Petsko
mesh_terms: D035843:Biomedical Research; D009316:National Institutes of Health (U.S.); D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical; D014481:United States