The Honourable Mrs. Rita Fan GBM, GBS, CBE, JP

Hong Kong Deputy to the National People's Congress of the People's Republic of China

"The purpose of finding new treatment approach is to lessen the patients’ trauma and suffering. I think patients, doctors and researchers should work together."

Prof. Louis W.C. Chow  

Founder and Executive Director, OOTR  

"Translational Research is to transform laboratory results into clinical application. 
We want to share the latest knowledge and treatment of cancer with patients. By  
doing this, patients may accept treatment, especially new treatments, more  
readily and we can then work hand-in-hand with them to fight cancer."   

Prof. Masakazu Toi  

Founder & President, OOTR  

"Translational Research transmits new cancer therapeutics or cancer diagnosis from basic science to clinical science. OOTR calls on as many people as possibleto work together in cancer treatment research." 

Prof. Stefan Glück  

University of Miamia, USA  

"The anticipated progress in breast cancer treatment mainly relies on  
Translational Research. A group like OOTR has many  cancer centers and  
university clinical research devices across Asia"  

Prof. Yihai Cao

Microbiology and Tumor Biology Centre, Karolinska Institute, Sweden

"Translational Research perhaps is the most important part in bio-medical research. We really need to fill the gap between clinical research and basic research."

Prof. Nadir Arber  

Cancer Prevention Unit, Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Israel  

"When we can learn about and know the strategy of patient treatment, we can  
choose a better treatment for them."  

Prof. Yan Sun

Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Chinese Academy of Engineering

"Although clinical oncology developing rapidly in Asia during the post 20 years, it becomes more and more important to follow the up-dated development world-wide. We all aware that standard multi-disciplinary treatment and individualization based on the most recent evidence are trends of clinical medicine."

Prof. Giuseppe Viale  

European Institute of Oncology  

"The role of translational research in the process of improving personalised  
treatment cannot be overemphasized. Understanding the biological mechanisms  
of tumour response or resistance to established and innovative therapies is  
the key to more efficacious treatments for our patients."  

Prof. Aaron Ciechanover

Nobel Prize laureate in Chemistry

"Translational research means that we translate basic biomedical knowledge, the understanding of the underlying complex mechanisms of diseases into the useful language of drug and vice development. Thus, basic and translational research go hand by hand, as the one cannot exist without the other."