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Session Formats Brainstorming Discussions These discussion sessions will focus on ways to improve communication and collaboration between university/medical research centers and healthcare focused foundations and non-profits. The goal of these sessions will be to develop a framework for more efficient interaction between the major research institutions and the innovative disease-focused research philanthropies and in conjunction with other sources of funding. Issues to explore include: funding multi-disease and multi-disciplinary research, IP, research focus, and clinical trial and commercialization issues. Disease-Focused Roundtables Disease and technology focused sessions will explore translational research models in practice in thirteen different research disciplines. Each session will be led by a top researcher who will initiate discussion around relevant topics involved in supporting successful translational research. Several investigators will be invited to briefly summarize their research and talk about their strategies for moving their work towards clinical development and commercialization (visit the Forum Call for Abstracts for consideration). |
