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

资助医学研究的机构面临着越来越大的压力，要求他们将资助的研究转化为 将项目转给商业实体。这些商业实体可以获得必要的外部资本 需要将这项技术发展到可以改变医疗保健的程度。退伍军人管理局在 作为一个资助机构遇到了这些问题，而退伍军人管理局的 解决退伍军人医疗保健需求的独特使命。但这个翻译研究过程是 漫长、复杂、昂贵。此外，翻译研究人员没有接受过技能方面的培训 需要确定和应对这些挑战。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 用于修订或新的研究。退伍军人事务部在推进翻译研究方面取得了切实进展， 但现在需要一种方法，将高效技术转让所需的知识嵌入到 为退伍军人管理局科研人员增加效率，提高质量，并对医疗保健产生更大的影响 退伍军人。为了实现这一目标，退伍军人事务部翻译教育和指导(VA-Team)中心 提出了一种两阶段的方法来教育退伍军人管理局的翻译研究社区并确定退伍军人管理局 最有前途的翻译研究项目，适用于有经验的项目管理、咨询和 辅导。长期目标是为退伍军人管理局创造一种持久的专注于翻译的文化 研究网络。当研究人员从一开始就被教授翻译途径时 最终，它改变了他们对自己的研究和他们在翻译生态系统中的角色的看法。使用 这些知识改变了他们处理研究工作方方面面的方式，从资金 来源，拨款撰写，雇用学生和工作人员，接触导师，甚至是会议， 他们选择展示自己的作品。在这些变化的背后是对基本的 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。 眼下的目标是确定退伍军人管理局所有四项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 使他们的项目具有投资吸引力。为了实现这些目标，退伍军人事务部团队带来了两件事 对退伍军人管理局：首先，通过一系列现有的模块和研讨会，提供一个从汤到坚果的在线课程。 这些模块将指导研究团队了解翻译研究的基础知识 适合融资的产品市场，所有这些都是在他们自己的研究项目的背景下进行的，并具有特殊的 强调退伍军人健康和退伍军人管理局的战略优先事项。第二个部分是高级的，更多的 旨在推动选定的后期翻译研究达到一定程度的密集计划 对外部投资具有吸引力。这是通过积极的项目管理和定期 与业务顾问会面。顾问们还向团队进行深入的讲座，以增加 在第一阶段中获得了理解。退伍军人事务部-团队中心编程将促进退伍军人事务部的翻译 通过翻译流程更快速、更高效地进行研究，最终提高 执照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.