Are you designing the outcome,
or simply describing the process?
— Leonardo da Vinci —
Going back and forth on what to include or leave out,
How best to test the hypothesis,
What is the right technique to use,
What is the plan B if it doesn’t work,
and Whether everything has been thought through.
This is where perfection begins.
How many treatments
the patients waiting for them?
The art of translational research is designing basic research in a way that facilitates clinical translation,
and designing clinical protocols in a way that reveals mechanistic insights.
This is a discipline
mastered by those who have built it from every layer and understand that each decision depends on
the one before it.
