Abstract
In this country, enormous amount of effort was devoted to the promotion of basic science, whereas much less has been paid to clinical science. Consequently, clinical introduction of new therapeutic technologies is hampered, with a paucity of medical innovations derived from our country. To put back the fruit of scientific achievements to patients, we are urged to construct an intellectual and practical infrastructure of clinical studies/trials.
Under such conditions, Translational Research Informatics Center was founded in 2002, given financial supports from the Japanese government. The center is committed to the innovation of medical technologies, by facilitating the transfer of basic research findings to clinical practice. Our goal is to improve prognoses of intractable human diseases, including cancer, heart disease and stroke. For the goal, our missions are to establish standard treatments that are tentatively or empirically practiced in the clinic, and to explore new diagnostic, therapeutic and preventive strategies.
Given such missions, we plan and help conduct every phase of translational researches and clinical trials, currently supporting more than 50 clinical studies, to scientifically, ethically and safely carry them out. Also, to allow for more efficient accomplishments in such studies, we are continuously optimizing our research management systems, with the help of information technology.
