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Nature Medicine 8, 647 (2002)
doi:10.1038/nm0702-647
What is translational research?
Karen Birmingham1
- London
In a departure from its traditional support for clinical investigators with a basic research interest, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) has announced a new initiative to fund the work of 12 of America's best physician-scientists in an effort to harness new opportunities in translational research.With such generous funding on offer—$1 million annually for each investigator over five years, plus payments to the host institutions for laboratory space—the program bears scrutiny.
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