In research, translation refers to the implementation of findings from basic research in the clinic or in therapeutic applications.
Detailed description
Ideally, feasibility should already be considered in the design of basic research. Only translation makes results of basic research practically accessible for people. The slogan “From bench to bedside” describes the aim of translational research.
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) has granted “PRIME eligibility” to Myrcludex B, and will provide priority support for its further drug development. The hepatitis B and D virus entry inhibitor was
Dr Vytenis Andriukaitis, EU Commissioner for Health and Food Safety, visited the Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland (HIPS) to inform himself about multidrug-resistant pathogens
Researchers at the ImmunoSensation cluster of excellence at the University of Bonn have managed to do what many scientists dream of: together with researchers from the USA, they have patented new
The DZIF Academy is pleased to open the call for application for the fourth DZIF Prize for Translational Infection Research. The German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) will award a prize of 5.000
The spread of antibiotic resistant bacteria is causing concern—and the call for new agents is getting louder and louder. But which antibiotics are needed most urgently? Today, for the first time, the
Florian Klein’s main goal is to improve HIV therapy with the help of antibodies and to develop a HIV vaccine. His research on a new generation of broadly neutralising antibodies has found worldwide
The Max von Pettenkofer Institute of Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) has been appointed German National Reference Centre for Retroviruses. With this, it assumes central networking tasks
Some HIV-infected – and untreated children – who do not develop AIDS, control the virus in a different way from the few infected adults who remain disease-free. Scientists at LMU´s Max von Pettenkofer
The DZIF Academy is pleased to open the call for application for the third DZIF Prize for Translational Infection Research. The German Center for Infection Research (DZIF) will award a prize of 5.000
In a clinical trial at the German Center for Infection Research (DZIF), leukaemia patients are being administered specially purified immune cells, so-called memory T cells, for the first time after a
