Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science Center (LA CaTS)

Pennington Biomedical Research Center’s Louisiana Clinical and Translational Science (LA CaTS) Center combines 10 major Louisiana academic, research and healthcare delivery institutions into a unified infrastructure for addressing health disparities and improving health outcomes in underserved populations with chronic diseases. The LA CaTS Center has been successful in aligning priorities and committing resources of the major biomedical institutions of the state by growing a single clinical and translational science (CT) program for Louisiana.