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Unlocking potential in Life Sciences: collaborative research between Academia and Industry in Europe

Category: Seminar / Conference

Location: Auditorium, Human Technopole, Milan, Italy - In presence

Registration Deadline: 07/10/2024

Date: 08/10/2024

Target Audience: academia, industry, and investors.

Registration Closed

The process of technology transfer in the Life Sciences domain aims to advance early scientific inventions and discoveries to the next generation of diagnostics, therapies, services, and enterprises. Thanks to its intrinsic attitude to risk, hypothesis-driven research, and data sharing, academia produces a large amount of highly valuable discoveries and inventions that, regrettably, very often do not translate into therapies and products beneficial for society. This is because the journey from academic research to patients requires competencies, know-how, and access to large scientific, human, and economic resources. Very often, academia spinoffs and start-ups do not have enough resources and know-how to tackle all these challenges. On the other hand, the industry has been thriving in delivering breakthrough therapies and diagnostic tools to patients. Still, it is less effective than academia in producing breakthrough scientific discoveries. Collaboration between academia and industry is essential to unleashing the full potential of both worlds and in Europe, there are several models of such collaborations. With this in mind, we would like to bring together some of the key players in the Italian Life Science ecosystem to analyse such European examples and join efforts to build a model for Italy.

Speakers

Event Agenda

 

8.45 – 9.15 a.m. | Welcome and registration

9.15 – 9.25 a.m. | Welcome address and scope of the event 

  • Gianmario Verona – President, Fondazione Human Technopole

9.25 – 9.35 a.m. | Analysis by The European House – Ambrosetti 

  • Corrado Panzeri – Partner & Head of InnoTech Hub, The European House – Ambrosetti

9.35 – 9.40 a.m. | The public-private partnership model of Open Targets

  • David Hulcoop* – CEO, Open Targets

9.40 – 10.00 a.m. | The Lead Discovery Center: bridging academia and industry

  • Bert Klebl – Managing Director and Chief Scientific Officer, Lead Discovery Center

10.00 – 10.20 a.m. | The collaborative approach of IBM Research

  • Alessandro Curioni – IBM fellow, VP Europe and Africa and Director, IBM Research Zurich

10.20 – 10.35 a.m. | Q&A

10.35 – 11.05 a.m. | Coffee break

11.05 a.m. – 12.30 p.m. | Roundtable discussion

  • Daniela Bellomo – Director Business Development and Technology Transfer Division, Ospedale San Raffaele
  • Elisabetta Confalonieri – General Manager DG University, Research, Innovation, Lombardy Region
  • Fabrizio Conicella – Head of Open Innovation & Competence, Chiesi Farmaceutici
  • Fabrizio Grillo – Gruppo Bracco; Federated Innovation @MIND
  • Marica Nobile – Director, Federchimica Assobiotec
  • Francesca Pasinelli – Board Member, Fondazione Telethon
  • Maria Cristina Porta – General Manager, ENEA Tech e Biomedical
  • Marino Zerial – Director, Fondazione Human Technopole

Coordinated by: Fabio Terragni – Member of the Management Committee delegate for technology transfer, Fondazione Human Technopole

12.30 – 1.00 p.m. | Q&A and closing remarks

1.00 – 2.30 p.m. | Networking lunch