Driving the Industry Forward. 74 FUTURE PHARMACEUTICALS T ranslational science is an emerging area of medical practice, integrating research inputs from the basic sci- ences, social sciences and political sciences to optimize patient care. This process, often described as “bench-to-bedside,” is at its core a relatively simple concept. By taking a focused point of view, the biomedical community is able to translate what it has learned in the labora- tory into the diagnosis and clinical treatment of patients. To translate information from the clinic to the laboratory and back, researchers and clinicians have to collaborate with pharma- ceutical and biotechnology companies, hospi- tals and academia. The sheer volume of data from these organizations poses an enormous challenge, whi

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