Investment in national infrastructure is critical for growth in early-phase translational research and experimental medicine.

The goal of this paper is to review the evaluation of mentors with a focus on training new investigators in clinical translational science. These scholars include physicians and Ph.D. scientists who are generally assistant professors in clinical departments. This white paper is one of a series of articles focused on the programmatic elements of effective mentoring practices and the "current sta...

The term "translational science" has recently become very popular with its usage appearing to be almost exclusively related to medicine, in particular, the "translation" of biological knowledge into medical practice. Taking the perspective that translational science is somehow different than science and that sound science is grounded in an epistemology developed over millennia, it seems imperat...

The inclusion of engineering ideas and approaches makes medicine a quantitative and systems-based discipline that facilitates precision diagnostics and therapeutics to improve health care delivery for all.

SciVal Experts is a resource for finding experts and fostering collaboration. The tool creates researcher profiles with automatically updated publication and grant information and faculty-inputted curriculum vitae, more fully capturing a researcher's body of work. SciVal Experts indexes campus-based "experts" by research topic, allowing faculty to find potential research partners and mentors, f...

Three related articles in this issue addressing clinical and translational (C/T) research suggest four simple questions about such research that should be considered by policy makers at a national level, by academic institutions, and by individual scientists: What, who, how, and why. The author of this commentary posits that ambiguity in answering these questions means that policy makers are no...

Elaine Mardis and Marc Ladanyi discuss how large-scale genomics has driven advances in cancer translational medicine, with a focus on publications in this month's Special Issue.

In the first week of October, I announced the launch of a national consortium that will transform how clinical and translational research is conducted; ultimately enabling researchers to provide new treatments more efficiently and quickly to patients. This new consortium, funded through Clinical and Translational Science Awards (CTSAs), begins with 12 academic health centers (AHCs) located thro...

B. R. Pitt, J. W. Christman, S. J. Gunst, M. A. Matthay, T. Stevens, and L. B. Ware Department Environmental and Occupational Health, University of Pittsburgh Graduate School Public Health, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Section of Pulmonary Medicine, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois; Department Cellular and Integrative Physiology, I...

Graduate-level education in translational medicine will require more than just scientific research.