The universities provide teams with funding and the tools
needed for clinical translation, particularly things basic scientists might not be familiar with.
«Drugs that specifically target PGE2 pathways have already been developed and tested in animals, so our results have excellent
potential for clinical translation, not only for the treatment of influenza, but other viral respiratory infections that interact with similar host immune pathways,» says senior study author Divangahi, who is also a member of the Infectious and Immunity Axis at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI - MUHC).
5:00 - 6:00 pm — Shinya Yamanaka and Deepak Srivastava join a panel on ethical considerations
for clinical translation of iPS cell research.
«By re-engineering the molecules, we are able to exploit that interaction and open the
way for clinical translation, turning these molecules into useful drugs.»
Though the work was done in mice, it has the potential
for clinical translation, according to Shapiro.