What is Translational Research?
Translational Research has been identified by National
Institutes of Health (NIH) as a road map initiative. Road
map initiatives are: Areas of research that hold major opportunities
for advancing medicine in the 21st century.
NIH has defined Translational Research as the process of
applying ideas, insights and discoveries generated through
basic scientific inquiry to the treatment or prevention
of human disease.
Useful links:
http://www.nih.gov
(National Institutes of Health)
http://nihroadmap.nih.gov/clinicalresearch/index.asp
(NIH Roadmap - Re-Engineering the Clinic Research Enterprise
