title: Stimulating translational research: several European life science institutions put their heads together.
abstract: Translational research leaves no-one indifferent and everyone expects a particular benefit. We as EU-LIFE (www.eu-life.eu), an alliance of 13 research institutes in European life sciences, would like to share our experience in an attempt to identify measures to promote translational research without undermining basic exploratory research and academic freedom.
authors.affiliation: EU-Life Translational Working Group; Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI), Basel, Switzerland. Electronic address: bentires@fmi.ch.
authors.forename: Mohamed
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bentires-Alj
authors.affiliation: EU-Life Translational Working Group; The Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), Plesmanlaan 121, 1066 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Abinaya
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Rajan
authors.affiliation: EU-Life Translational Working Group; The Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), Plesmanlaan 121, 1066 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Wim
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: van Harten
authors.affiliation: EU-Life Translational Working Group; The Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI), Plesmanlaan 121, 1066 CX Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Henri G A M
authors.initials: HG
authors.lastname: van Luenen
authors.affiliation: EU-Life Translational Working Group; CeMM Research Center for Molecular Medicine of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria.
authors.forename: Stefan
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kubicek
authors.affiliation: EU-Life Translational Working Group; Biotech Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC), University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors.forename: Jesper B
authors.initials: JB
authors.lastname: Andersen
authors.affiliation: EU-Life Translational Working Group; Institute for Molecular Medicine Finland (FIMM), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
authors.forename: Janna
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Saarela
authors.affiliation: EU-Life Translational Working Group; The Babraham Institute, Babraham Research Campus, Cambridge CB22 3AT, UK.
authors.forename: Simon J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Cook
authors.affiliation: EU-Life Translational Working Group; Flanders Interuniversity Institute for Biotechnology (VIB), Rijvisschestraat 120, 9052 Zwijnaarde, Belgium.
authors.forename: Geert
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Van Minnebruggen
authors.affiliation: Institut Curie, 26 rue Ulm, 75005 Paris, France.
authors.forename: Sergio
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Roman-Roman
authors.affiliation: EU-Life Translational Working Group; Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC), Robert-Rössle-Strasse 10, 13125 Berlin, Germany.
authors.forename: Cornelia
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Maurer
authors.affiliation: EU-Life Translational Working Group; Biotech Research and Innovation Centre (BRIC), University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors.forename: Janine T
authors.initials: JT
authors.lastname: Erler
authors.affiliation: EU-Life Translational Working Group; Centre for Genomic Regulation (CRG), Dr Aiguader 88, 08003 Barcelona, Spain; Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona, Spain.
authors.forename: Michela G
authors.initials: MG
authors.lastname: Bertero
mesh_terms: D001690:Biological Science Disciplines / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D035843:Biomedical Research / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends; D005060:Europe; D006801:Humans; D007391:International Cooperation; D057170:Translational Research, Biomedical / Q000458:organization & administration* / Q000639:trends