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The current era of ‘big data’, the promise of the sequenced genome, advances in green chemistry-all contribute to unique opportunities to apply innovative science to improve human and environmental health. Traditional scientific disciplinary lines are being replaced with interdisciplinary approaches. As a result, there is a growing interest in collaboration across groups that were once competitive. These collaborations take the form of public-private and private-private partnerships and are creating a new and energized research environment. However, these new approaches must seek to meet challenges of emerging and chronic diseases, growing environmental impacts associated with population growth and industrialization, and economic and resource limitations for novel research.
HESI, a global scientific foundation based in Washington, DC, has initiated a new program called CITE (Combining Interdisciplinary and Translational Expertise). This effort has engaged participants from a broad range of disciplines (agricultural sciences, environmental sciences, drug development and safety, chemical development and safety, economics, foundation management, entrepreneurship, regulatory science, philanthropy, and academic research management among others) to identify opportunities to move science from discovery to application more efficiently. This presentation will identify some of the opportunities for improving this process that were identified through the HESI CITE initiative and the next steps that will be taken to address these recommendations. The discussion will also include examples of how HESI’s current scientific portfolio and process help to optimize the flow and management of knowledge as part of translational science implementation.
