LUNCH SPEAKER SERIES
"The Engine and Engineering of Medical Innovation"
Exploring the Anatomy and Opportunity of Innovation Partnerships
The medical innovations that serve people across the United States and the world are conceived and nurtured through the work of dedicated individuals and groups who ask the important questions, solve practical problems, and create the systems and opportunity to bring these innovations forward.
The process is not linear or predictable, and involves a complex and often stochastic web of inspiration, creative questions, hard-nosed basic science, technology development, education, product development, process development, careful pre-clinical and clinical assessment, and responsible marketing.
This process most often starts with individual basic science or clinical innovators. Increasingly, innovation is born of the collaboration of multidisciplinary teams, that inspire creative thinking, critical assessment, and leveraging of expertise and resources.
The work of these individuals and teams, and the likelihood that their effort to benefit patients, is critically dependent upon the environment in which they work. This includes opportunities for funding to support valuable work, impartial assessment, and the availability of partners with skills and capacity to move promising innovations from the bench to the bedside.
In the case of medical innovation, investigators and the American people have several critical partners: academic centers or research organizations, the National Institutes of Health, the biomedical corporate community, and various regulatory agencies.
This lunch speaker series will explore the perspective of these partners, their changing roles, and the current and future opportunities for advancing these partnerships to greater effect.
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