This season on Science in Translation, we will explore how Northwestern University's interdisciplinary culture drives discovery and impact, harnessing diverse expertise to address society's most challenging problems. In this episode, Eric J. Perreault, PhD, Vice President for Research at Northwestern University, discusses the power of collaboration and how Northwestern's deeply interdisciplinary culture across multiple schools and units drives research and real world impact.

Priya Kumthekar, MD, didn't have industry connections or commercialization training when she started working with small companies to help bring scientific advancements to her patients with brain tumors. She learned along the way the many steps it takes to bring new scientific breakthroughs to the marketplace specifically through clinical trials. In this episode, Kumthekar explains how she is now helping to streamline this commercialization process with The Chicago Biomedical Consortium Hub for Innovative Technology and Entrepreneurship in the Sciences (CBC-HITES) where she serves as a clinical trial translation guide and how NUCATS members and investigators from across Chicagoland universities and colleges can benefit from funding and training offered by the program.

Through implementation science, NUCATS is dedicated to accelerating and moving new interventions into impact that improves health for all. In this episode of Science in Translation, Amy Van Pelt, PhD, discusses her work in implementation science and its impact on global health, particularly in resource-limited settings. She shares the importance of bridging gaps between research and practice, linguistic barriers, and the cultural adaptation of health interventions through implementation science. She also shares new educational opportunities for investigators to learn more about implementation science.