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- TSBM stands for
the Translational Science Benefits Model.
TSBM is a model that people can use to show
the impact of the research that they're doing.
Impact is the real world change they see
as a result of the work that they've done.
- The TSBM was designed to help us provide a framework
for talking about and measuring benefits.
These benefits, we group them into four main categories,
so there's lots of benefits in clinical settings.
Second kind of benefits are in the community,
in particular, public health.
The third kind of benefit is economic,
and then finally the fourth benefit are policy benefits.
So these are things where better policies,
better regulation can come out of research.
- The TSBM came out in 2018.
The team that worked on that realized they really needed
this toolkit that researchers could use to apply the model.
So they came up with the Translating for Impact toolkit.
It's online, it's on our website. It's free.
Anyone can go on and use it.
You can make an account so you can share with partners
as you're using the tools and filling them out.
- We developed the TSBM as part of the Institute of Clinical
and Translational Sciences here at WashU.
We have applied the TSBM recently
to a number of areas related to cancer research.
In particular, we've worked with colleagues here at WashU
in the Implementation Science Center for Cancer Control
to develop case studies
and case studies are really just short stories, almost,
in terms of why their work is important
and what kind of impact does their work have,
and they all use the TSBM framework
to show those kinds of impacts.
- My collaboration with TSBM started,
I will say probably two years ago.
This case study report, a new technology that we invented.
It's called Sonobiopsy.
It uses ultrasound to enhance blood test of brain diseases,
specifically we focus on brain cancer.
One of the critical seed fund was actually from ICTS.
The pilot fund was critical for us
to take on this risky project
and then move it forward,
eventually receive federal funding from NIH.
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- There's many benefits, I think, to using TSBM,
first and foremost is going through the process
of how to speak in a way that is more understandable
for the lay person.
I think that can be like kind of the hardest part first.
- TSBM help us to build the bridge
between the scientific work that we do in the lab
and the community that we want to reach
because it's written in a plain language
that people without scientific background can understand
what we're doing.
- We were really at the right place in the right time,
when we started developing the TSBM.
We have been so thrilled at how visible and how popular
and how many people have adopted it.
A couple years ago, Indiana University did an evaluation
and they were able to show
that over two thirds of the CTSAs
around the entire United States
were using the TSBM in their own evaluation.
Far more than any other evaluation framework.
We just never anticipated
that this would be such a useful tool for so many people.
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