Bedside to Bench is a non-profit organisation bringing much needed change to the way we think about, conduct, and translate medical research in Australia across all disease streams.

Bedside to Bench was launched in February 2013, and is dedicated to the late Professor Robert L. Sutherland AO FAA. Rob was a pioneer in translational research in Australia and internationally, and a visionary who adopted a `Bedside to Bench´ approach to cancer research. As his daughter Rebecca Sutherland explains,

"Dad thought that by listening to patients and clinicians at the bedside, scientists could identify the most important research questions to answer at the bench. The importance of working to achieve this ideal was reinforced throughout Dad´s own cancer treatment. It is this bedside to bench approach that we continue through the organisation in a number of ways, so that in the end, patients receive the benefits of research, sooner"

Bedside to Bench implements community engagement in research programs, helping researchers and industry to connect with the community, so that projects being developed address the most pressing and important clinical problems currently facing patients and their carers - research that has a better chance of making a difference to patients, sooner rather than later, and all the while helping patients to have their voice heard.

This is the Bedside to Bench approach.