Veterans Affairs - Translational Education and Mentoring (VA-TEAM) Center

资助医学研究的机构正面临越来越大的压力， 商业实体的项目。这些商业实体可以获得必要的外部资本 我们需要将这项技术发展到能够改变医疗保健的程度。VA没有什么不同， 作为一个资助机构，我们遇到了这些问题，而这些问题又因退伍军人事务部的 独特的使命，以解决退伍军人的医疗保健需求。但这种转化研究过程 漫长复杂昂贵此外，翻译研究人员没有受过技能培训， 我们需要识别和应对这些挑战。最后，这些问题通常只有在 已经取得了重大的研究进展，这意味着任何必要的改变都需要代价高昂的延迟 进行修订或新的研究。VA在推进转化研究方面取得了切实进展， 但现在需要一种方法，将有效的技术转让所需的知识嵌入文化中， VA研究人员提高效率，提高质量，并对医疗保健产生更大的影响。 老兵为了实现这一目标，VA翻译教育和指导（VA团队）中心 提出了一个两阶段的方法来教育VA的翻译研究社区，并确定VA的 最有前途的翻译研究项目，经验丰富的项目管理，咨询， 指导。长期目标是为VA创造一种持久的翻译文化 研究网络。当研究人员被教导从开始到结束的翻译途径时， 最后，它改变了他们如何看待他们的研究和他们在翻译生态系统中的作用。与 这些知识，他们改变了他们如何接近研究奋进的各个方面，从资金， 来源，赠款写作，雇用学生和工作人员，接近导师，甚至会议， 他们选择展示自己的作品。在这些变化的基础上， 所有成功的翻译工作的必要性：为强大的临床需求开发有价值的解决方案。 当前的目标是确定VA在所有四个方面最有前途的研究技术 研究服务，并为他们提供集中的专业知识，以确定剩余的关键工作， 使他们的项目对投资具有吸引力。为了实现这些目标，VA-TEAM带来了两件事 首先，通过一系列现有的模块和研讨会，提供一个包罗万象的在线课程。 这些模块引导研究团队了解转化研究的基本原理， 产品市场适合融资，所有这些都在他们自己的研究项目的范围内，并具有特殊的 强调退伍军人健康和VA的战略重点。第二个部分是一个先进的， 密集的计划，旨在推动选定的后期翻译研究的点，它是 吸引外来投资。这是通过积极的项目管理和定期的 与商业顾问会面。顾问还教授团队深入的讲座，以增加 在第一阶段获得的理解。VA-TEAM中心编程将推进VA的翻译 通过翻译过程更快，更有效地研究，最终导致增加 许可证活动和对退伍军人健康的影响。

Agencies that fund medical research are under increasing pressure to translate funded research projects to commercial entities. These commercial entities can obtain the necessary external capital needed to advance the technology to a point where it will change health care. The VA is no different in encountering these problems as a funding agency, and the problems are compounded by the VA's unique mission to address the health care needs of Veterans. But this translational research process is long, complicated, and expensive. Further, translational researchers are not trained in the skills needed to identify and address these challenges. Finally, these problems are typically faced only after significant research progress has been made, meaning that any required changes require costly delays for revisions or new studies. The VA has made tangible progress in advancing translational research, but now needs a way to embed the knowledge required for efficient technology transfer in the culture of VA researchers to increase efficiency, improve quality, and have a greater effect on the health care of Veterans. To accomplish this, the VA Translational Education and Mentoring (VA-TEAM) Center proposes a two-phase approach to educate VA's translational research community and identify VA's most promising translational research projects for experienced project management, advising, and mentoring. The long-term objective is to create a lasting culture of translational focus for the VA research network. When investigators are taught about the translational pathway from beginning to end, it changes how they think about their research and their role in the translational ecosystem. With this knowledge, they change how they approach all aspects of the research endeavor, from funding sources, grant writing, hiring students and staff, approaching mentors, and even the conferences where they choose to present their work. Underlying these changes is an understanding of the fundamental necessity of all successful translational work: developing a valuable solution to a robust clinical need. The immediate objective is to identify the VA's most promising research technologies across all four research services, and provide them with focused expertise to identify the critical work remaining to make their projects attractive for investment. To realize these objectives, VA-TEAM brings two things to the VA: first, a soup-to-nuts online curriculum through a series of existing modules and workshops. These modules walk research teams through the fundamentals of translational research from finding product-market fit to financing, all within the context of their own research projects, and with special emphasis on Veteran health and VA's strategic priorities. The second piece is an advanced, more intensive program designed to drive selected late-stage translational research to the point where it is attractive for outside investment. This is done through active project management and regular meetings with business advisors. The advisors also teach the teams in-depth lectures to increase the understanding gained in the first phase. VA-TEAM Center programming will advance VA's translational research more quickly and efficiently through the translational process, ultimately leading to increased license activity and impact on Veteran health.