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2008 APSA Annual Meeting
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New Opportunities and Jobs to Come in Comparative Effectiveness Research
Posted on March 12, 2010
Recovery Act funding will give a boost to a field focused on containing health care costs while maintaining quality. "The broader need here is for these sorts of data to help us make reasonable decisions about how we provide health care. So it seems to me that [comparative effectiveness research] is a field whose time has come." --Scott Gazelle
The Team Science Revolution
Posted on March 11, 2010
A commentary published this week in Science Translational Medicine takes on the issue of multidisciplinary team science. Lead author Nora Disis spoke with Science Careers about the topic. "You should look for people who value-add to what you do, rather than people who recapitulate your own opinions. Think immediately about developing your career as a team science career." - Nora Disis Many efforts in translational research focus on building teams of researchers who can tackle critical questions about human health from different perspectives. But getting people to function effectively on those teams is the real challenge, says Nora Disis, principal investigator for the Institute for Translational Health Sciences at the University of Washington in Seattle.
For Physician-Scientist Couple, Success is in Balance
Posted on February 26, 2010
Deepali Kumar and Atul Humar credit their success in achieving work-life balance to their shared specialty. "We made some changes in our careers specifically so we could have a work-life balance. We made a conscious decision that work is really important and family is really important. I think unless you make that conscious decision, you won't succeed." -- Atul Humar When people ask -- and they do ask -- where Deepali Kumar and Atul Humar's clinical and research interests diverge, the two scientists answer patiently. Both physician-scientists at the University of Alberta in Edmonton, Canada, Deepali and Atul are a couple, and both are specialists in transplant infectious diseases. "My interest is in herpes viruses in transplant patients," Atul says. "And my main interest is in vaccines and improving vaccine responses in transplant patients," Deepali says.
Clinical/Translational Science at the AAAS Annual Meeting
Posted on February 12, 2010
This year's AAAS Annual Meeting will include several sessions focusing on clinical and translational science (CTS), as well as a CTS career workshop. The Annual Meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS - the publishers of Science and Science Careers) kicks off this week, 18 February, in San Diego, and runs through 22 February. The conference includes an excellent career workshop program that's FREE to attend. (Free on-site registration required - details here.) And if you decide you want to check out the rest of the meeting, you can register on-site for full meeting attendance; there's a nicely discounted rate for students.
Informatics Careers Take Shape in Translational and Clinical Research
Posted on January 22, 2010
Electronic patient data and research repositories mean new opportunities in medical informatics. Translational and clinical research informatics "are just solidifying as fields, and there's a lot of work out there to be done, a lot of opportunities." --Peter Embi, University of Cincinnati Center for Health Informatics Growing up in Soviet Belarus, Vitaly Herasevich didn't spend much time with computers. So when he entered medical school in Minsk in 1994, the school's network for tracking patient data proved an alluring novelty. Herasevich quickly learned some computer skills and for 5 years worked on the system, viewing it from both a programmer's and a clinician's perspectives and noting where it could be improved. As he completed medical school, a Ph.D. in cardiac physiology, and then a cardiology fellowship, Herasevich continued to develop his informatics expertise; he even published a Russian-language textbook on the subject.
A Scientist's Infectious Enthusiasm
Posted on January 1, 2010
PECASE winner Benjamin tenOever is an unconventional virologist who's working to make his discoveries clinically relevant. "What's the best microRNA to choose? Which segment should I target? Is it better to target one segment with two microRNAs? Academically, it might not publish very well, but those details are important if you want to make clinical product." -Benjamin tenOever
Translating Lupus Research
Posted on December 4, 2009
An encounter with a lupus patient crystallized one scientist's concept of "translational research" and fundamentally changed the focus of her lab. "How can you study basic science mechanisms [in humans] when you don't have enough cells? The only way I can see to do that is to take what we have in the mouse and ask, Does it happen in humans? ??? If we're right, we're golden; if we're wrong, you get a bad track record. We're taking a risk. We might be wrong, but at this point we need to at least try." --Barbara Vilen, UNC
A Recipe for Collaboration
Posted on November 13, 2009
Serendipity, hard work, and good communication formed the core of an unlikely collaboration that resulted in a new technique for measuring hormone levels. "This collaboration has been the most fun part of my own research work because I am learning so much. You can really see how different people can work together." --Noha Mousa When physician Noha Mousa left Egypt for Toronto to pursue a Ph.D., she didn't foresee wrestling with common extraction protocols to find a practical and patient-friendly method to measure estrogen levels in breast tissue. "It was very time-consuming and very messy," Mousa says. "We really needed a miniature method to do it, and nothing was available."
Welcome to CTSciNet
Posted on October 21, 2009
Science Careers announces the launch of the world's first online community dedicated exclusively to clinical and translational science. CTSciNet, the Clinical and Translational Science Network, is a new initiative of Science Careers, AAAS, and the Burroughs Wellcome Fund, our sponsor, with assists from a variety of partners in the medical science community--including Science and its new journal Science Translational Medicine.
Perspective: Three Crucial Questions When Applying to M.D.-Ph.D. Programs
Posted on October 16, 2009
Is an M.D.-Ph.D. program right for me? Where should I apply? Where should I go? Medical schools and graduate schools have fundamentally different goals. Medical schools focus on teaching the art and science of the practice of medicine. Graduate school, on the other hand, is intended to train you in the art and science of investigation. I talk to a lot of undergraduates about applying to M.D.-Ph.D. programs. Three questions come up repeatedly: Is attending an M.D.-Ph.D. program the right choice for me? If I decide that is what I want to do, where should I apply? If I have a choice, where should I go?
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