Can greater transatlantic collaboration speed the needed innovations?
With ageing populations, both the US and EU will be in ever-greater need of finding new ways to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their respective healthcare systems – and innovation will be part of the solution. Can greater transatlantic collaboration speed the needed innovations? Working with the Transatlantic Policy Network, Science|Business is organising a working lunch on Capitol Hill on healthcare innovation. By invitation only
Co-Chairs: Rep. Phil Gingrey and MEP Judith Merkies
Panelists:
- Alexander von Gabain, Chairman-Elect of the European Institute of Innovation and Technology, and Chief Scientific Officer of Intercell, Europe’s biggest biopharma
- Harriet Wallberg-Henriksson, President of Karolinska Institutet, the famed Swedish medical university that names the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology
- Mark McCamish, Global Head of Biopharmaceutical Development, Sandoz International
- Walter van Dyck, Assoc. Professor of Innovation Management, KU Leuven
- Moderator: Richard L. Hudson, CEO & Editor of Science|Business
The outcome will be a set of recommended areas for future trans-Atlantic policy collaboration in healthcare innovation.
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