title: New burns and trauma journal celebrating translational research.
abstract: Welcome to the journal of Burns & Trauma launched in 2013 and published by the prestigious Wolters Kluwer Health. We are grateful to promote a cultural challenge toward a new horizon in the field of translational research (TR). We enjoy to work together with the common objective to perform continuous medical education programs, exploring the methods in research, designing study, and to improve multidisciplinary and multiprofessional collaboration in the basic sciences and in the clinical trials. Defned narrowly, epistemology is the study of knowledge and justified belief. Epistemology is concerned with the following questions: What are the necessary and sufcient conditions of knowledge? What are its sources? What is its structure and what are its limits? More broadly, epistemology is about issues having to do with the creation and dissemination of knowledge in particular areas of inquiry as defned and revisiting at the beginning of the last decades. Translational medicine (TM) should meet the demands to maintain or expanding the biomedical workforce and education programs that attract and retain young people in the translational and biomedical sciences. With this present contributes, we invite the members of the editorial board of Burns & Trauma to encourage submitting, in a special section, their personal experience about the philosophy of "Translation research." If this has a chance, welcome to the researchers, clinicians, and the allied people for their decisive contributions to strengthen the importance of a common way about the principles and methods of basic and clinical research. TR and TM represent a dynamic entity making a link, a sort of bridge, "from bench to bedside", or from laboratory experiments through clinical trials to point-of-care patient applications. Epistemological pluralism is a critical point for conducting innovative, collaborative research which can lead to more successful integrated and successfully study, particularly important in the feld of burns and trauma.
authors: Departments of Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Catania School of Medicine, USA.
authors: Antonino
authors: A
authors: Gullo
authors: Drug of Sciences, Section of Biochemistry, University of Catania, Catania, USA.
authors: Giovanni
authors: G
authors: Li Volti
authors: Cardiovascular Research, Mario Negri Institute, Milan, Italy ; Rancho Mirage, Weil Institute of Critical Care Medicine, LA, CA, USA.
authors: Giuseppe
authors: G
authors: Ristagno
keywords: Burns; epistemology; ontology; science communication; translational medicine; translational research; trauma