Where is translational research?

Translational Research: Where Do We Go?

was fairly tightly connected in the United States and was largely done by physician-scientists who also treated patients [1]. That changed with the explosion of molecular biology in the 1970s. Clinical and basic research began to separate, and biomedical research emerged as a discipline in its own right and with its own training. The majority of biomedical research has been done by highly speci...

Where is Patient Safety Research and Practice Heading? A Response to Recent Commentaries

Translational andrology and urology research: Where is it heading? --Report of the 5th Greatwall Translational Andro-Urology Forum (GTAUF2012)

Secretary General of GTAUF2012 and Professor & Vice Chairman of Andrology Center, Peking University First Hospital, Peking University; Beijing 100034, China; Managing Editor, Translational Andrology and Urology, Hong Kong Correspondence to: Zhong-Cheng Xin, MD. Secretary General of GTAUF2012 and Professor & Vice Chairman of Andrology Center, Peking University First Hospital, Peking University, ...

Translational nephrology: what translational research is and a bird's-eye view on translational research in nephrology

The ultimate aim of biomedical research is to preserve health and improve patient outcomes. However, by a variety of measures, preservation of kidney health and patient outcomes in kidney disease are suboptimal. Severe acute kidney injury has been treated solely by renal replacement therapy for over 50 years and mortality still hovers at around 50%. Worldwide deaths from chronic kidney disease ...

Research on teaching nursing: where is it?