TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH

The idea of "transfer" brings into play notions of movement, transport, and transmission. A technology is transferred when two organizations exchange techniques or know-how. The aim of transfer, that is of translational research, is to expedite the application of new knowledge in the clinical setting thereby improving patient care.

The Institut Curie’s Translational Research is done by:

• a dedicated department: the Translational Research Department
• the research groups of the Research Center
• the care teams of the Hospital Group, based in Paris-Orsay and Saint-Cloud

Translational research refers to the transfer of scientific innovations to the bedside to improve patient care and/or to research designed to improve understanding of cancer by performing experimental in vivo studies.