New routes to source innovation from academia featuring Healx
21-07-2022
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In the light of the pandemic and the ever-increasing digitisation of collaboration, companies driven by innovation and R&D are focused on staying ahead of the curve and their competitors. A key aspect of this is the pursuit of the next academic breakthrough or expert to strengthen their pipeline.
In a new live online event series, ‘Models of Open Innovation’, industry leaders from innovative companies were interviewed by IN-PART to establish new best practices for academic partnering and scouting.
- 00:00 – Introduction to IN-PART
- 02:59 – Introduction to Healx
- 08:33 – How Healx build their clinical pipelines
- 09:56 – What academic opportunities are Healx looking for?
- 11:00 – Interactive poll and discussion: Which sector/role do you work in?
- 12:14 – Interactive poll and discussion: Which approaches generate the most success?
- 20:56 – Interactive poll and discussion: What are the biggest challenges when partnering?
- 25:23 – Live Q&A
- 44:24 – Closing remarks
Some of the topics covered include:
- How Healx define technical and scientific R&D/innovation priorities
- How the company finds solutions from academia
- What their evaluation process looks like
- How Healx stay ahead of the curve when sourcing innovation
Who is this webinar for?
- R&D managers and heads
- Open/external innovation teams
- Business development & licensing heads
- Search and evaluation scouts
Hosted by…
Alex Stockham, Head of Communications & Marketing at IN-PART
After studying chemistry (BSc) and science communication (MSc) at the University of Sheffield, Alex joined IN-PART in 2015 with the company founders working out of university incubators in Sheffield and London. Alex is responsible for IN-PART’s communications, marketing, and partnerships.
Healx Speakers…
Bruce Bloom, Chief Collaboration Officer
Bruce founded Cures Within Reach, a US-based global non-profit driving “new” treatments to patients through repurposing research. He continues to be a strong global proponent of drug, device and nutraceutical repurposing as a critical component of therapy development in his current role.
Clara Tang, Alliance Strategy Manager
Clara has a Neuroscience PhD from the University of Cambridge and possesses expertise in life sciences market analysis, commercial strategy and project management. Clara has volunteering experience as a Medical Research Strategy Advisor and is a licensed Mental Health First Aider.
What is IN-PART?
To help get breakthroughs out of the lab and onto the market, we’ve simplified the initial connection between academia and industry with two solutions:
Connect, a digital partnering platform for university-industry collaboration.
250+ universities and research institutes around the world currently showcase their research and innovation on IN-PART to find new collaboration partners with R&D teams in 6,000+ companies.
Discover, a bespoke scouting service for open innovation.
For a specific research requirement or challenge, Discover enables R&D teams to identify opportunities for commercialisation or to solicit proposals for new research across an extended network of academic teams and departments in 1,400+ institutes.
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