Table 5 Management of TROs
From: Challenges facing translational research organizations in China: a qualitative multiple case study
TROs | Researcher management | Project management | Cooperation | Others |
|---|---|---|---|---|
PUMCH-TMC | Recruiting part-time or full-time translational scientists at home locally and abroad | No data | Cooperating with the University of California in San Francisco to work on international translational medicine collaborations | No data |
CTMR of the first affiliated hospital of Zhejiang province | Recruiting part-time or full-time translational scientists at home and abroad, setting up PI | Project selection by expert committee and PI (CTMR provides platform), shared resource seed funds for selected projects | Exploring cooperation with institutes outside CTMR by setting up research alliances, joint laboratories, and shared grants. Setting up policies about publications and intellectual property across institutes. Setting up cooperation with the University of California, Los Angeles | Performance evaluation: CTMR organizes experts at home and abroad to evaluate TRO performance every 3Â years according to a list of fixed goals |
Shared source management: Open to all researchers freely, paid for the source which bought by researcher group themselves before. | ||||
Funds: Attract funding from provincial and national governments | ||||
TMC of Children’s hospital of Fudan University | Recruiting part-time or full-time translational scientists at home and abroad, exchanging translational researchers, jointly cultivating graduates, setting up PI | No data | Training of translational researchers | Funds: Attract government funds |
TRCSR | Arrange qualified medical professional and management personnel to attend related courses in a planned and purposeful manner | To organize the expert committee for the planning, discussion, revision and evaluation of each project, and coordinate the project implementation; to establish an information network for the project; to assist in the application of clinical trial; to organize the investigation, application, and screening of the project, and submit them to the expert committee for further consideration. | No data | 3-year Goals: Recruit translational scientists, train translational researchers, translate 3 to 5 projects to clinical practice, build up a Sino-Australian collaborative laboratory |
TMC of North East of China | Â | No data | No data | No data |
East TMC of Tongji University | Developing translational researchers by visiting, continue education, academic cooperation, joint-cultivating PhD | No data | External Cooperation: Mutual visits, joint training program for doctoral students, advanced study of staffs, scientific research cooperation and co-host international academic conferences | No data |
TMC of Wuhan Union Hospital | Setting up PIs policy and academic committee review the PIs | No data | Â | Researchers management: |
TMC of West China Hospital | Setting up policy for recruitment of translational scientists | No data | Management of cooperation and intellectual refers to policy/approach in the West Sichuan University | Funds: Application of research grants |