Yesterday (July 9, 16 graduate students started the Course in Clinical and Translational Research, a 2-week pilot program run by the National Institutes of Health and hosted on its Bethesda, Maryland, campus. The program aims to introduce the students to clinical and translational aspects of biomedical research in the hope that they may consider a career in the field.
"Sometimes, students working on very focused projects may not have a vision as to how their work will be integrated into a clinical application," Juan Lertora, director of clinical pharmacology and faculty lead for the new program, said in a press release. "This program will broaden their perspective and thereby increase the potential for translation of basic laboratory observations to clinical medicine."
The students will meet ...
