PMID- 20517162
OWN - NLM
STAT- MEDLINE
DCOM- 20110421
LR  - 20211203
IS  - 1708-8267 (Electronic)
IS  - 1081-5589 (Linking)
VI  - 58
IP  - 6
DP  - 2010 Aug
TI  - Faculty involvement in translational research and interdisciplinary collaboration 
      at a US academic medical center.
PG  - 770-6
LID - 10.231/JIM.0b013e3181e70a78 [doi]
AB  - BACKGROUND: Forty-six academic health centers have been awarded Clinical and 
      Translational Science Awards by the National Institutes of Health to enhance 
      health by advancing translational research. OBJECTIVE: As a recipient of a 
      Clinical and Translational Science Award, we aimed to determine the prevalence of 
      translational and interdisciplinary collaboration at our institution. DESIGN, 
      SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS: We surveyed all full-time faculty and postdoctoral 
      fellows (n = 3870) in the Johns Hopkins Schools of Medicine, Public Health, 
      Nursing and Engineering, in late 2008. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES: Outcomes included 
      (1) the proportion of investigators involved in early (T1), late (T2), and 
      reverse translational (RT) research; (2) barriers to translational research; (3) 
      attitudes about translational research; (4) involvement in interdisciplinary 
      collaboration; and (5) barriers to collaboration. RESULTS: With 1800 respondents, 
      the response rate was 55% for faculty and 40% for postdoctoral fellows. Of the 
      1314 investigators with more than 30% of their time committed to research, 69% 
      reported conducting 1 or more types of translational research (T1 = 79%, T2 = 
      36%, RT = 36%). Attitudes about translational research revealed both concern and 
      uncertainty. Fifty-four percent of respondents described translational research 
      as having complex regulatory requirements; 42% felt that an individual's 
      contributions suffer from underrecognition, 39% described it as high risk, and 
      35% consider funding less secure for translational researchers. Collaboration 
      across school and types of research was common. Forty-seven percent of basic 
      scientists collaborated with a clinical investigator in the last year, and 56% of 
      clinical investigators collaborated with a basic scientist. CONCLUSIONS: Overall, 
      investigators who did translational research reported a greater number of 
      collaborators than those who did not.
FAU - Weston, Christine M
AU  - Weston CM
AD  - Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg 
      School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. cweston@jhsph.edu
FAU - Bass, Eric B
AU  - Bass EB
FAU - Ford, Daniel E
AU  - Ford DE
FAU - Segal, Jodi B
AU  - Segal JB
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
PT  - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
PL  - England
TA  - J Investig Med
JT  - Journal of investigative medicine : the official publication of the American 
      Federation for Clinical Research
JID - 9501229
SB  - IM
MH  - Academic Medical Centers/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - *Cooperative Behavior
MH  - Faculty/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - Female
MH  - Health Care Surveys
MH  - Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
MH  - Humans
MH  - *Interdisciplinary Communication
MH  - Male
MH  - Translational Research, Biomedical/*statistics & numerical data
MH  - United States
EDAT- 2010/06/03 06:00
MHDA- 2011/04/22 06:00
CRDT- 2010/06/03 06:00
PHST- 2010/06/03 06:00 [entrez]
PHST- 2010/06/03 06:00 [pubmed]
PHST- 2011/04/22 06:00 [medline]
AID - 10.231/JIM.0b013e3181e70a78 [doi]
PST - ppublish
SO  - J Investig Med. 2010 Aug;58(6):770-6. doi: 10.231/JIM.0b013e3181e70a78.