Translational science is a cross disciplinary, scientific research that is motivated by the need for practical applications that help people. The term is used mostly in the health sciences and refers to real-time translation of bench science, conducted only in a lab, to bedside clinical practice or dissemination to population-based community interventions.
In U.S., the National Institutes of Health have implemented a major national initiative to leverage existing academic health center infrastructure through the Clinical and Translational Science Awards. National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) was established on December 23, 2011.
The industry and academic interactions to promote translational science initiatives has been carried out by various global centres such as European Commission, Glaxo Smithkline and Novartis institute for Biomedical Research in European Union, the University of California, Davis in the U.S., the translational research cells at National Institute of Virology, National Institute of Nutrition under Indian Council of Medical Research and Biotech Consortium India Limited in India.
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“Nor has science sufficient humanity, so long as the naturalist overlooks the wonderful congruity which subsists between man and the world; of which he is lord, not because he is the most subtile inhabitant, but because he is its head and heart, and finds something of himself in every great and small thing, in every mountain stratum, in every new law of color, fact of astronomy, or atmospheric influence which observation or analysis lay open.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)