Development and promotion in translational medicine: perspectives from 2012 sino-american symposium on clinical and translational medicine.
BACKGROUND
Clinical translational medicine (CTM) is an emerging area comprising multidisciplinary research from basic science to medical applications and entails a close collaboration among hospital, academia and industry.


RESULTS
This Session focused discussing on new models for project development and promotion in translational medicine. The conference stimulated the scientific and commercial communication of project development between academies and companies, shared the advanced knowledge and expertise of clinical applications, and created the environment for collaborations.


CONCLUSIONS
Although strategic collaborations between corporate and academic institutions have resulted in a state of resurgence in the market, new cooperation models still need time to tell whether they will improve the translational medicine process.
Biomedical Research Center, Shanghai, China. xiangdong.wang@clintransmed.org.
Mengjia
M
Qian
Duojiao
D
Wu
Ena
E
Wang
Francesco M
FM
Marincola
Wei
W
Wang
William
W
Rhodes
Michael
M
Liebman
Chunxue
C
Bai
Ching-Wan
CW
Lam
Gyorgy
G
Marko-Varga
Thomas E
TE
Fehniger
Roland
R
Andersson
Xiangdong
X
Wang