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Tyler F Beck, Mark Williams, Dac-Trung Nguyen, Biomedical Data Translator Consortium, Noel Southall, Christine Colvis (Bethesda, MD)
Currently, the scientific community has an incredible wealth of biological data, but we lack the tools that would allow us to turn these data into understanding and more effectively help treat patients in the most clinically beneficial and cost-effective ways. By linking previously disparate sources of molecular, cellular, pharmaceutical, patient, and other data, we are able to form a more complete picture for diseases from the bottom up. In doing so, researchers will be far better equipped to explore the underlying mechanisms of disease, particularly diseases which may have common symptoms which mask complex and varied underlying causes. Over the life of this program, we have built a unique social structure around our collaborators, in which individual researchers have even been known to put aside their personal and professional well-being and recommend that other collaborators’ work be prioritized. In fact, the consortium is the subject of an ongoing sociological study which will result in a doctoral thesis. The unique nature of this collaboration grants unparalleled flexibility to the program.