The Innovative Medicines Initiative – Putting Policy into Practice
Start Date 11/10/2012People from all over Europe headed to Cyprus to take part in IMI's symposium on open innovation, which took place in Larnaca, Cyprus on the afternoon of Thursday 11 October.
Entitled IMI - Putting Policy into Practice, the event demonstrated how IMI projects are applying open innovation to speed up the delivery of results that will make a real difference to the lives of patients, especially those with diseases and conditions that are hard to treat. The second part of the symposium was devoted to a debate on biomedical public private partnership planned for launch under Horizon 2020
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Presentations
- IMI’s projects - putting ideas into practice
Magda Gunn, Scientific Project Manager, IMI - IMIDIA - Intellectual property and open innovation in IMI projects
Bernd Stowasser, Head of European Public Partnerships, Sanofi - EMTRAIN - Training future open innovation practitioners in the biomedical area
Ghazaleh Gouya, Scientific Head EMTRAIN Project Office, Medical University Vienna - U-BIOPRED – Open innovation and severe asthma
Krzysztof Łoboda, 2nd Chair in Internal Medicine, Jagiellonian University Medical College - New PPPs for biomedical research - Horizon 2020
Jackie Hunter, Chief Executive Officer, Pharma Partners - Towards a new PPP on biomedical research and innovation under Horizon 2020
Ruxandra Draghia-Akli, Director, European Commission - IMI – Strategic frame
Peter Høngaard Andersen, Senior Vice President, H. Lundbeck A/S
About the Innova Health event
The IMI event set the stage for the Open Innovation For Health: A Strategy for 2020 (‘Innova Health’) conference, which ran from 11-13 October and was organised by the Cyprus Presidency of the Council of the EU.
- Read the Innova Health report Building an Open Innovation ecosystem in Europe for healthcare
The case of IMI was widely discussed at Innova Health, which was focused on the use of an open innovation approach in the areas of health research and healthcare systems. The event brought together scientific, industrial, political and societal stakeholders to discuss the issues, with a focus on key areas such as personalised medicine, preventive health and wellness, eHealth, education and training, nutrition, and the creation of an open innovation ecosystem for healthcare. The outcomes of the conference will contribute to the wider Innova Health project, which is developing a strategy for open innovation in health.