Translational Medicine Has Failed

1 Boring Old Man (emphasis mine):

One reason that I suggest you read the whole article is that in his thinking, the perspectives of the pharmaceutical industry, psychiatry, and the NIMH are discussed as if they are the same thing. For example, he discusses academic research and pharmaceutical research as if they are in synergy with different strengths and weaknesses, an unbroken chain:
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Here’s the thing about that argument – I can’t think of any examples. The drugs that have characterized the post-DSM-III era are all me-too drugs developed by pharma. What the academics have done is sign on to the industry’s papers as KOLs, involve themselves as sites for drug trials, and traveled around on speaker’s bureaus. If the academics are doing what he described, I missed it. Dr. Hyman, Fibiger, and Insel should be in a better position than I am to know about such things – but I think that this scheme, at least over the last quarter century, is more their shared delusion fantasy than some hard reality.

So while it seems a cynical thing to say, I can’t think of any accomplishments by the Translational Medicine era to mention other than to produce a lot of articles and a few new journals. So how could it be stalled? It never took flight in the first place except as a monotonous rhetorical device and a name for a bunch of centers that haven’t produced very much. The Translational Medicine rallying cry "from bench to bedside" has lacked in productivity from the bench side of the equation.

It seems "Translational Medicine" is nothing but a fancy buzzword to get funds for research, and to hide the fact by how much medical science has been stalled in the last couple of decades…