What is translational medicine? 5 interesting facts
Research in this area usually takes place in 3 stages:
- Clinical research, that is, the translation of scientific discoveries into practice in specific settings.
- Assessment of how feasible it is to use new developments in real life, i.e., with the participation of patients.
- implementation of the results into the practice of the current health care system.
5 interesting facts about translational medicine and its branches.
- The term “translational oncology” first appeared in the scientific literature about 15 years ago, although the field has a longer history.
- The concept of translational research emerged from the US National Cancer Institute at the 1992 National Conference on Cancer Prevention and Early Detection. Where James L. Mulshine and colleagues discussed how epithelial cancers could be blocked in the early stages of tumorigenesis if agents were developed to interfere with growth factors or other molecules involved in tumor promotion:
- By combining basic research in tumor cell biology with technological advances in immune cell engineering, therapeutic antibodies and vaccines against cancer can be developed. The vaccine will deliver tumor antigen to prime and activate tumor-specific immunity.
- Immunotherapy is one of the areas of translational oncology. Science hailed cancer immunotherapy as its breakthrough of the year, echoed by the American Society of Clinical Oncology in 2016.
- The use of translational research has spread beyond oncology to medicine in general, and then to non- clinical fields such as engineering. This was made possible by the combination of basic research and clinical practice in translational medicine.
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How to improve the environment in big cities? This question is asked by experts from different parts of the world. 130 ecologists from RUDN University and Bogor Agricultural University (Indonesia) discussed the sustainable development of megacities at the international scientific seminar “Urban Ecology”.
The XX International Congress “Blishchenkov Readings” was held at RUDN University. This year it was dedicated to the topic of international law in the context of global civilizational confrontation. The current state of the legal system was discussed by 355 scientists from 28 countries.
The conference “Political Science in a Changing World: New Practices and Theoretical Search”* started out at RUDN University. More than 600 political scientists from Venezuela, Egypt, Finland, Chad, Sweden and 20 other countries present scientific solutions to the challenges a globalizing society is facing. There are more than 70 events on the agenda of the conference organized by the Russian Political Science Association (RPSA).