Are you designing the right outcome,
or simply describing the process?
— Leonardo da Vinci —
What questions your study should address?
How well your study fit the status quo in clinical practice?
What is the right technique to use? What is the plan B if it doesn’t work?
Have all critical aspects been thought through?
This is where perfection begins.
How many treatments
the patients waiting for them?
The art of translational research is designing basic research in a way that facilitates clinical translation,
and designing clinical protocols in a way that reveals mechanistic insights.
This is a discipline
mastered by those who have built it from every layer and understand that each decision depends on
the one before it.
