Dr. Bertalan Meskó – Director of the Medical Futurist Institute believes that healthcare needs a trip to Mars: we’d have healthcare systems that are accessible, personalized, preventative and augmented. Meskó argues…
Gemma MilneFebruary 24, 2019
Pharma needs entrepreneurship at the heart
Former GSK SVP Dr. Paul-Peter Tak believes entrepreneurship should be at the heart of pharma. Tak created the Immunology Network…
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Progress and impact
How far have we progressed in creating a world free of cancer, infectious killers or diabetes? Who’s making moves in key domains of healthcare innovation? What will we be able to achieve in the next decade and how to get there?
We are at level today that for certain biologies, tissues and organs there is enough biological knowledge to use that knowledge in engineering regenerative solutions.
Nicole VerbeeckFebruary 7, 2019
The end product of where anything is going is to a patient, so bench to bedside always. And if you don’t have the narrative of the patient from the very…
Gemma MilneFebruary 8, 2019
Polleux lab located at Columbia University in the Department of Neuroscience and the Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute in New York unraveled the first signaling pathway that triggers synaptic loss in Alzheimer's…
Nicole VerbeeckFebruary 13, 2019
The affordability of healthcare is high on the agenda of Tineke Van hooland. She believes in a three-track approach.
Nicole VerbeeckFebruary 4, 2019
Dr. Bettina Experton, CEO of California-based mobile health technology company Humetrix talks about empowering people with technology tools they know about.
Nicole VerbeeckMarch 4, 2019
Adrian Thomas of Johnson & Johnson Global Public Health doesn’t want to bore us with the numbers, but he’s on a mission to develop new drugs, new regimens, and new…
Gemma MilneFebruary 3, 2019
Former GSK SVP Dr. Paul-Peter Tak believes entrepreneurship should be at the heart of pharma. Tak created the Immunology Network and is now Venture Partner at Flagship Pioneering.
Gemma MilneMarch 19, 2019
Soon, 5 years from now we will see disposable diagnostics become available. Jo De Boeck, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President at imec talks about technology becoming a key…
Nicole VerbeeckFebruary 5, 2019
Prof. Dr. Karim Vermaelen of Ghent University, Belgium is working to crack the immunological code of lung cancer. And define for each patient which is the ideal combination therapy to…
Nicole VerbeeckMarch 11, 2019
“At the moment in medicine, we focus on treating individual diseases, such as cancer or heart disease, stroke or Alzheimer’s, all as siloed endeavours. But if we were able to…
Gemma MilneFebruary 5, 2019
South-African doctor Jeremy Levin is the only CEO who has ever worked in research, biotech, diagnostics, therapeutics, and taken a small company public. He worked at two large pharmaceutical companies…
Nicole VerbeeckFebruary 6, 2019
Generation Moonshot
Prof. Franck Polleux is at the forefront of brain research and neurodegeneration. His work has led to surprising discoveries about one of our brain’s most formative foes: Alzheimer’s disease.
