On Friday 19 February, CTSciNet, an online community for people pursuing careers in
clinical and translational research who seek to speed the translation of scientific breakthroughs into real - world therapies, will host panel discussion with top experts in the field.
Not exact matches
Regardless of the geographic setting, the goals
and challenges of
translational research are the same, says Liu: Getting funding
and infrastructure support from the government, training young investigators, creating a multidisciplinary community of researchers
who can effectively communicate with each other,
and finding ways to systematically implement
translational research results into
clinical practice.
TL1s are aimed at graduate students
and postdocs from Ph.D. or combined - degree programs
who are looking to pursue
clinical and translational research careers.
Back in the US,
and further along the
translational pipeline is Doug Lowy, of the NIH in Bethesda, Maryland,
who has already experienced the potential of harnessing basic
research for
clinical use.
Beyond the rigorous
research education essential for all scientists,
translational scientists
who will work at the boundaries of discovery
and clinical science must possess an assortment of practical
and logistical skills.
«Beyond the rigorous
research education essential for all scientists, those
translational scientists
who will work at the boundaries of discovery
and clinical science must possess an assortment of practical
and logistical skills,» the editorialists write.
«This is expected to be the first of many new innovative therapies made possible by the Wyss Institute's collaborative model of
translational research that will enter human
clinical trials,» said Wyss Founding Director Don Ingber, M.D., Ph.D.,
who is also the Judah Folkman Professor of Vascular Biology at Harvard Medical School
and Boston Children's Hospital,
and a Professor of Bioengineering at Harvard SEAS.
«We hope our findings reassure women with epilepsy
and clinicians
who are counseling these women on family planning,» says Jacqueline French, MD, professor of Neurology
and Director of
Translational Research and Clinical Trials at NYU Langone's Comprehensive Epilepsy Center,
and the study's first author
and co-principal investigator.
Firestein,
who is also director of the
Clinical and Translational Research Institute at UC San Diego, said the work «opens up the potential for precision medicine approaches that allow us to target all of the joints, not just a subset.
«The CTR - IN is providing unique opportunities for junior faculty at our partner institutions to develop their
clinical and translational research programs to the level of national competitiveness,» said Carl Reiber, UNLV senior vice provost,
who was instrumental in the development of the program.
The ASH Scholar Awards fund hematologists in North America
who conduct basic,
translational and clinical research that furthers the understanding
and treatment of blood disorders.
Rudick,
who is co-principal investigator of Cleveland Clinic's CTSA program, says the CTSA movement will increase
clinical and translational research capacity by drawing in researchers
who have not been previously involved in
clinical research and by exposing students to
clinical research at an earlier stage in their careers.
With a mission to share the newest scientific concepts
and research findings shaping
clinical advances, the meeting offers an unparalleled opportunity for exchange among scientists from across the United States
and the world
who represent dozens of scientific areas, from laboratory to
translational to
clinical research.
She has trained many pediatric fellows
who now have academic careers, in both
clinical and translational research.