An introduction to clinical research

The chapters in the second edition of this book reflect the combination of basic and clinical research (both patient- and population-oriented) principles. Importantly, we hope that they reflect the editors' view that these disciplines cannot be uniquely separated, but are part of a continuum that flows back and forth between them—often sharing similar tools and approaches to better understand the totality of human disease. As such, we believe the information contained herein will also be of value to our enlarging audience of Masters or Ph.D. trainees in clinical science or public health, medical students, students in other biomedical professional disciplines, clinical scientists in industry, practicing clinical investigators, and administrators in the broad field of clinical and translational research with a specific focus on the study of the individual subject. The disciplines of genetics and precision medicine will especially benefit from the new knowledge human inheritance.