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Biomedical research is the area of science devoted to the study of the life processes and diseases with the ultimate goal of improving health by generating preventive interventions and effective treatments for diseases. The fulfillment of this aim requires framing right questions, well-planned scientific experimentation, data analysis, and evaluation, which calls for experts from different areas of both life and physical sciences. Biomedical research has high expectations in supporting and accelerating medical research. However, limited success is achieved due to barriers in scientific translation. This raises demand to create new paths to solve problems that can be tackled only through interdisciplinary approaches. The potential of interdisciplinary research lies in the fact that this approach brings together knowledge and expertise from different fields and works in newer synergistic ways, thus enabling novel integrated perspectives on complex problems of medical science.
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Sinha, E.S., Sinha, P.K., Sobti, R.C. (2022). Growing Need for Interdisciplinary Biomedical Research. In: Sobti, R., Sobti, A. (eds) Biomedical Translational Research. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-4345-3_3
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