The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS), part of the National Institutes of Health, is improving health through smarter science. NCATS conducts and supports research on the science and operation of translation to allow more treatments to get to more patients more quickly. The Center focuses on what is common across diseases and the translational process by studying translation on a system-wide level as a scientific and operational problem. Working in partnership with the public and private sectors, NCATS strives to develop innovations to reduce, remove or bypass costly and time-consuming bottlenecks in the translational research pipeline; demonstrate their usefulness; and disseminate the resulting data to the broader scientific community. For more information, visit https://ncats.nih.gov. engagement ≠ endorsement