The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded a $225,750 grant to Wayne State University to support a strategic planning process for a clinical translational science award (CTSA). WSU has joined a group of renowned universities known as the Academic Health Centers (AHC) as part of a national consortium designed to transform how clinical and translational research is conducted, ultimately enabling researchers to provide new treatments more efficiently and quickly to patients. When fully implemented in 2012, about 60 institutions will be linked together to energize the discipline of clinical and translational science.