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France Professor Bana Jabri, Director of the Institut Imagine, brings a transatlantic perspective to advancing genetic medicine. After 25 years in the US, she now leads efforts in France to harness genomic technologies, foster interdisciplinary collaboration, and modernise academic–industry partnerships. Her vision calls for strategic investment, institutional autonomy, and greater risk…

Switzerland Prof. Andrea Alimonti, Director of the Institute of Oncology Research in Bellinzona, a leading Swiss centre focused on translational cancer research, shares his international journey from Rome to New York , Boston, and now Ticino, where he leads a growing, high-impact research institute. Under his leadership, IOR is expanding with…

Spain EATRIS, the European Infrastructure for Translational Medicine, is an EU-funded program that facilitates scientific collaboration amongst public institutions from 14 member states. Its scientific director, Dr Toni Andreu, explains how the organisation coordinates a network that helps European researchers access public facilities in other countries. A former general director of…

China Dr. Grace Zhou, dean of SIIBR, discusses the Institute’s priorities, the benefits of being located in Shenzhen and the city’s potential as a global innovation hub. Zhou also outlines the major recent developments for her company, ImmVira. To begin with, Grace, our readers would be extremely interested in hearing about…

UK Keith Thompson, CEO of the Cell & Gene Therapy Catapult, one of a number of Catapult institutions in the UK designed to help commercialize innovative research, discusses strategy, funding, international collaboration and Brexit.     Most likely, the UK is the best environment for putting forward trials that are properly…

UK Tony Jones, CEO of One Nucleus, a life sciences membership organization centered on the Greater London-Cambridge-East of England corridor, discusses the role of SMEs within the UK’s healthcare ecosystem, translational research, and how the association’s members will navigate the post-Brexit landscape in the UK.  One Nucleus, which was established in…

Italy Prof. Luca G. Guidotti discusses the esteemed positioning of San Raffaele within the global scientific community, their core mission of translational medicine and the challenges Italy faces today with the development of young scientific talent and the bridging of the public-private gap. Prof. Guidotti, could you begin by describing the…

Pharma The Director-General of the Gustave Roussy Institute, a top cancer institute in Europe, talks about the revamping of their clinical research infrastructure to adapt to the rising new field of translational research and his ambitious plans for the next five years, in particular, his vision for Cancer Core Europe, positioned…

pharma The president of the Institut Pasteur talks about how they must build on their differentiating factors, with a focus on interdisciplinary research, why they are not a French institute with international partnerships, but an international institute that is based in France and how if there was one aspect he would…

pharma The Director of the CNCR and the person in charge of the industrial sector, talk about the fragmented nature of French clinical research funding, why when it comes to boosting France’s attractiveness as a clinical research destination, funding is the number one issue for hospitals and reveals how the number…

pharma Lygature is the new name of TI Pharma and CTMM, two internationally renowned public-private-partnerships turned non-for-profit partnership drivers. Managing Director Jorg Janssen explains that it will be business as usual for the merged organization, but with more opportunities for cross-disciplinary collaborations than ever before. Lygature drives partnerships for the development of…

commercialization Founder of Promedon Marcelo Olmedo discusses innovation in Cordoba, and the birth and success of Promedon, a flagship company of the region.   How do you see the importance of the relationships between the private sector and the universities as being a key to success in the region?  In order…