TraIT, Translational research IT bridging the valley of death in translational medicine

Abstract

Translating new technology and biological findings into clinical applications is hampered by insufficient translational research IT. The Dutch Translational research IT (TraIT) initiative organizes, deploys, and manages data and workflows in an on-line "office suite", supplemented with efficient training and user support. TraIT has been adopted by a wide user community providing an excellent large-scale demonstrator for the nation-wide Health-RI initiative.

Reply to R. Pham et al

“…2 More in general, the current discussion exemplifies the urgent need for prospective registry studies such as the Australian TRACC registry and the prospective Dutch colorectal cancer cohort study PLCRC 9 in combination with effective dissemination of extensive clinical, pathologic, imaging, and molecular data to truly facilitate the essential validation efforts. 10 This is the real challenge of the near future!…”