Clinical Translational Medicine

Upon completing the course, participants should be able to:

Knowledge

• Relate how thorough characterization (molecular, immunological, imaging) of the individual patient or patient’s samples may be used for direct selection of patient treatment/care.
• Explain how information from biological experiments (in vitro and animal models) can be used as a platform for designing investigations in patients.
• Discuss how biological experiments may lead to drug development.
• Describe how to bring a preclinical drug to phase 1, basic requirements.
• Plan a translational study with material from a clinical trial.

Skills

• Integrate knowledge obtained from other courses into translational clinical research.
• Critically evaluate preclinical data - from a clinical point of view.
• Generate novel ideas for clinical trials from preclinical observations.
• Implement research results in clinical practice.
• Solve unmet clinical needs/questions by designing the clinically relevant preclinical/ biological experiments.
   

Competences

• Integrate basic biology into clinical knowledge.
• Assess ethical considerations of how to implement new molecular tools and conduct studies with patients.
• Understand the central aspects of clinical translational medicine and be able to discuss and communicate these to other scientists, clinicians, and the public.