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[moomoo702]

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What is considered to be clinical research? how is clinical research different from translational research. Thanks

 

[schrizto]

I consider something clinical research when you're finding out the effectiveness of a drug/treatment. It may involve interviewing patients, etc. Compared to basic science research, where you're usually finding things out about certain bodily processes out of curiosity.

It's a very informal definition, but that's how I define it.

 

[TexasPhysician]

Clinical research is research that either directly involves a particular person or group of people or uses materials from humans, such as their behavior or samples of their tissue, that can be linked to a particular living person

 

[Mattabet]

Clinical research means that you can smell patients and that there's a clinician present, in the words of those wiser than I.

 

[FlowLimited]

To answer the second part of your question, translational research is a bridge between basic science and clinical research. The popular phrase is "from bench to bedside" and sums it up quite well. An example might be developing some novel drug in the laboratory then testing the efficacy in a clinical trial.

I wouldn't say there are any solid definitions that distinguish translational research from pure clinical research, but if the work involves a good amount of interplay between the lab and patients in a hospital or clinic, you'd probably call that translational research.