Table 5.

Selection Criteria for MTTs.

Selection criteria	Characteristic
Research topic	University research strength or strategic priority
Leadership	Principal Investigator with national stature, including active NIH support
Translational project	Translational project that involves patient-oriented research or a clinical intervention
Strategic core	Strategic core of multidisciplinary investigators that regularly interact/meet
Training/education	Assistant professors, fellows or predoctoral students embedded within the team