Disease Area

Hundreds of potential drug targets have been discovered by researchers mapping pain pathways, but clinical trials have proved unsuccessful in most cases. Can we pick our way through the translational maze to find much-needed new analgesics?

What do we know so far?

On each side of the brain stem, a florescent green marker illuminates the two networks of 200 neurons that control the sighing reflex

The human immunodeficiency virus has evaded the best efforts of vaccine developers for over three decades.

Sitting Down With… Julian Solway MD, Walter L. Palmer Distinguished Service Professor - Medicine and Pediatrics, Director - Institute for Translational Medicine, Dean for Translational Medicine, University of Chicago, USA.

The true mission of translational science is to take new medicines and diagnostics from bench to bedside – and beyond

Now I have a lab of my own, I’ve found that the best research comes from finding the right collaborators.

Better understanding of human biology presents us with an opportunity to combat disease on two fronts – targeting individual variation on one hand and universal mechanisms on the other.