TRANSLATIONAL CONVERSATIONS
Translational Conversations: From Model to Medicine is a video series and podcast created in collaboration with Lab Rat Chat highlighting discussions between animal and clinical researchers on the important interplay of their approaches for scientific advances in biomedical research.
Each episode brings together a clinical researcher and an animal researcher studying related topics to explore the unique and translational strengths of their work—and how collaboration between both fields drives scientific progress.
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Interested in being interviewed for the series? Click HERE
Looking for additional information or have specific questions about the series? Email Dr. Puralewski.
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Translational Conversations Ep. 1- Development of Extreme Anxiety and Irritability in Youth
Introducing the first episode in a special series - Translational Conversations: From Model to Medicine. Hear from Dr. Ned Kalin, a nonhuman primate researcher, and Dr. Melissa Brotman, a clinical researcher, about how parallel and collaborative animal and human research studies help us better understand anxiety and irritability in youth and develop novel, effective, treatments. Drs. Kalin and Brotman discuss the unique contributions of their approaches, how the translational research process manifests in their own work, and ways scientists of all kinds can approach advocacy for the importance of animal-based biomedical research.
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Translational Conversations Ep. 2 - Early Life Adversity and Vulnerability for Mental Illness
In the second episode of the Translational Conversations special series, we talk with Dr. Millie Rincon-Cortes, a rodent researcher, and Dr. Lana Ruvolo Grasser Winters, a human researcher, about how their work in each species is important for examination of ways early life adversity influences the development of our brain and nervous system. Drs. Rincon-Cortes and Grasser Winters share how these complementary approaches help us better understand vulnerability for mental illness, discuss why translational research methods are important to incorporate from training throughout scientific careers, and emphasize the importance of advocacy and outreach to combat misinformation on animal-based biomedical research.
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Thank you for taking time to learn about how these parallel research avenues take us from model to medicine. Until next time- stay curious, intentional, and thoughtful in all your pursuits, especially in research
Translational Conversations was developed by Dr. Rachel Puralewski and created through the ACNP/AMP BRAD Fellowship. To learn more about the program and apply, click here.
Meet our fellows and read about their passion for advocacy.