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The Clinical Pipeline - a new column from Nature Medicine

Our new fortnightly column will analyse the latest in translational and clinical research, from bench to bedside
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This week Nature Medicine published the third in a new fortnightly column called The Clinical Pipeline.

Our goal is to further strengthen the journal's coverage of translational and clinical research, from bench to bedside, and so each column will analyse a recent clinical trial announcement, preprint, or journal publication (with all the caveats that apply to non-peer reviewed research!)

Thiago Carvalho is writing these articles for us, as an experienced Nature Medicine freelancer and author of our COVID Research in Brief articles during the pandemic.

Thiago's first column covered BioNTech’s new combination mRNA / CAR-T cancer vaccine; the second column discussed the unknown efficacy of the antiviral, tecovirimat, against monkeypox; and today's column covers how the FDA are using biomarker data in the approval of new drugs for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease.

This is something of an experiment for the journal, so please let us know if you found them interesting and/or useful - or any other feedback!

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Ben Johnson
Senior Magazine Editor, Nature Medicine, Springer Nature

I trained as a virologist, starting with an undergraduate degree in virology from the University of Warwick, UK. My PhD, in influenza virus genetics and immunoevasion, was from Public Health England and the University of Reading, UK, with Maria Zambon and Wendy Barclay. My research interests then moved to smallpox vaccines, viral ion channels and cell adhesion, while a postdoc at Imperial College London with Geoffrey Smith, FRS. I then joined open-access publisher BioMed Central in 2011 as an editor and then associate publisher and was Head of Communities & Engagement at Springer Nature from 2016, running the Nature Research Communities and other online engagement activities for researchers. I joined Nature Medicine in 2021, with responsibility for news and opinion content, and am based in the London office.

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