{"id":6831,"date":"2016-05-11T14:20:37","date_gmt":"2016-05-11T18:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/?p=6831"},"modified":"2016-05-20T16:13:10","modified_gmt":"2016-05-20T20:13:10","slug":"closing-the-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/2016\/closing-the-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Closing the Gap"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Geisel's New Williamson Translational Research Building Will Help Move Discoveries More Rapidly from Lab to Clinic<\/h3>\n<p>We don't need statistics to tell us that it can take a long time for research to reach clinical practice. But here's one that's often cited in academic medical circles: it takes 17 years (on average) to complete the journey from bench to bedside.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dartmed.dartmouth.edu\/spring16\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6833\" src=\"http:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/05\/cover.jpg\" alt=\"cover\" width=\"350\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/05\/cover.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/05\/cover-110x130.jpg 110w, https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/05\/cover-304x360.jpg 304w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a>With the opening of its Williamson Translational Research Building (WTRB), the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth hopes to help close that gap.<\/p>\n<p>The state-of-the-art, six-story building, which is seamlessly integrated into Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center's Lebanon campus, is designed to make collaborations between scientists\u2014such as biomedical researchers, engineers, data scientists, physician-researchers, and health policy analysts\u2014and their clinical colleagues, easier than ever before.<\/p>\n<p>\"Much of what drives innovation in research are the interactions and dialogues that you have across different disciplines,\" explains Duane Compton, PhD, interim dean of Geisel.<\/p>\n<p>\"When those connections can take place under one roof, with people organized by research theme rather than by department, it creates a really interesting mix that allows you to push things ahead in ways that you couldn't do otherwise,\" says Compton. \"And it provides a much better conduit for facilitating the translation of scientific discoveries into better, safer care for patients.\"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dartmed.dartmouth.edu\/spring16\/html\/closing_the_gap\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read the full feature article in the latest issue of Dartmouth Medicine magazine...<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the opening of its Williamson Translational Research Building (WTRB), the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth hopes to move discoveries more rapidly from lab to clinic. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":6832,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,1,8],"tags":[629,320,470,469],"class_list":["post-6831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-dartmouth-medicine","category-news","category-research","tag-dartmouth-medicine","tag-research-2","tag-williamson-translational-research-building","tag-wtrb","post_format-post-format-aside","author-15"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2016\/05\/WTRB_0915-crp.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4r3h1-1Mb","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6831"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6835,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6831\/revisions\/6835"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/geiselmed.dartmouth.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}