DPFS Resource request (University of Edinburgh)

将基础医学研究转化为人类健康和社区财富的实际成果，一直是英国医学院的难题。爱丁堡大学在这一重要活动中一直处于领先地位。我们最近获得了一名MRC翻译，这使我们能够接受一位知名企业家的服务，他重组了我们的方法，激发了我们的能力。在过去的6个月里，这已经导致了3家新公司的成立。然而，为了充分发挥我们在癌症疼痛、记忆丧失、精神疾病、艰难梭菌、心脏病和癌症等重大未满足需求的治疗方面的潜力，我们需要，首先，建立一个小团队来支持我们的MRC翻译以加快进展，其次，建立一个核心实验室来培训和支持我们的员工努力发现和开发新药。总的来说，我们希望极大地改善我们全球领先的研究成果的翻译，使人们受益，从而提供明确的证据，证明在正确的方法和一些主要的资金支持下，这可以在英国医学院有效地完成。

Translation, the conversion of fundamental medical research into practical gains for human health and community wealth, has been a tough nut for the UK medical schools to crack. Edinburgh University has been trailblazing in this important activity. Our recent award of an MRC translator allowed us to take on the services of a well-known entrepreneur who has reorganised our approach and galvanized our capacities. This has already led to the formation of 3 new companies in the last 6 months. However, fully to realise our potential to develop treatments for major unmet needs such as cancer pain, memory loss, mental illnesses, clostridium difficile, heart disease and cancer, we need, firstly, to establish a small team in support of our MRC translator to speed up progress, and, secondly, to build a core laboratory to train and support our staff in their efforts to discover and develop new drugs. Overall we hope vastly to improve the translation of our globally-leading research to benefit people and thus to provide clear evidence that this can be done effectively in a UK Medical School, given the right approach and some pump-prime funding.