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Volume 354:978-979 March 2, 2006 Number 9
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Translational and Clinical Science

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To the Editor: I applaud Zerhouni's call (Oct. 13 issue)1 for a new vision of translational research with the Clinical and Translational Science Awards. However, a key impediment to translational research remains unaddressed — namely, the limited incentives for basic scientists to collaborate with clinical investigators. Translational clinical research requires collaborations between clinician investigators with the requisite skills to design longitudinal studies and deal with regulatory and human-protection complexities and a range of scientists, such as molecular geneticists, electrophysiologists, and biomedical engineers. Unfortunately, the academic promotion process rewards individual accomplishments, particularly first or senior authorship and the principal investigator position. . . . [Full Text of this Article]



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