IHI’s transformative partnerships – a word from our director
IHI funds exciting projects with important outcomes – this month we meet ENKORE, which seeks to reduce the environmental burden of the healthcare sector through sustainable materials and sustainable-by-design approaches, and READI, which targets a better representation of the whole of European society in clinical trials.
The projects become truly transformative when you take them together and look at their combined impact on an area. In this newsletter we look at how our public-private partnerships are changing the approach to cancer and addressing liver disease – a silent epidemic that according to European Liver Patients' Association affects up to 200 million people in Europe.
We also take a deep dive into our projects on real-world data, digital health and AI – an area highlighted in the Draghi report as critical for European competitiveness and a long-standing focus of IMI and IHI. Our projects bring together Europe’s leading experts – in academia and industry - and the report summarises what has been done and what needs to be done for Europe to take a global lead in health data.
As always, we publish the early drafts of our upcoming call topics when they are sent for consultation to our governance groups. Particularly exciting in IHI call 11 is the close partnerships we are forming with several private and philanthropic funders. We will talk more about these partnerships in the lead up to the calls. Until then, do have a look at the upcoming topics; preparing early and building bold collaborations are key to successful proposals in our competitive programme.
Niklas Blomberg, IHI Executive Director
The projects become truly transformative when you take them together and look at their combined impact on an area. In this newsletter we look at how our public-private partnerships are changing the approach to cancer and addressing liver disease – a silent epidemic that according to European Liver Patients' Association affects up to 200 million people in Europe.
We also take a deep dive into our projects on real-world data, digital health and AI – an area highlighted in the Draghi report as critical for European competitiveness and a long-standing focus of IMI and IHI. Our projects bring together Europe’s leading experts – in academia and industry - and the report summarises what has been done and what needs to be done for Europe to take a global lead in health data.
As always, we publish the early drafts of our upcoming call topics when they are sent for consultation to our governance groups. Particularly exciting in IHI call 11 is the close partnerships we are forming with several private and philanthropic funders. We will talk more about these partnerships in the lead up to the calls. Until then, do have a look at the upcoming topics; preparing early and building bold collaborations are key to successful proposals in our competitive programme.
Niklas Blomberg, IHI Executive Director
Just published – draft topic texts for IHI call 11
Diabetes, brain disorders, heart disease and medicines safety are among the topics slated for inclusion in the next IHI call for proposals, a two-stage call planned for launch in the summer.
Sign up for the IHI Call Days for call 11
These online info sessions, which cover all call topics as well as IHI’s rules and procedures, are key to understanding what you need to do to prepare a strong proposal. The sessions run from 23 to 30 June.
Meet IHI at the MedTech Forum
The MedTech Forum, which will take place in Lisbon, Portugal, on 13-15 May, is a leading health and medical technology industry conference. Meet the IHI team at the event exhibition, and join one of the sessions on us and our projects.
Sign up for our event on our impact on cancer
Join us on 19 May for an online event showcasing how IMI and IHI cancer projects are delivering results from diagnosis to cure and tackling both common and rare cancers.
Report: How collaborations can help real-world data and AI to take-off in health
Read the report of IHI’s workshop on how IMI and IHI projects are facing the challenges and harnessing the opportunities presented by real-world data, digital health, and artificial intelligence.
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Safe and sustainable by design: the ENKORE vision for the health sector
New IHI project ENKORE aims to tackle the environmental impacts of the health sector by developing an eco-design framework for single-use medical devices and their packaging.
READI project to usher in more inclusive approach to clinical trials
The new project aims to support the inclusion in clinical trials of underrepresented groups, a move that will both help address health disparities and enhance research quality.
IHI and IMI: Investigating who develops liver disease and why
Meet the IHI and IMI projects investigating how liver disease progresses, with the goal of achieving an earlier diagnosis and better predicting who is more likely to develop severe liver disease.
Promoting vaccination amongst the elderly with VITAL’s new tools
The VITAL project published an educational platform as well as a toolbox to boost vaccination uptake amongst older people.
Healthy beginnings, hopeful futures
The theme of World Health Day this year was on maternal and newborn health, which is also the focus of the IMI projects ConcePTION and Screen4Care.
Catch up on our event ‘In conversation with ITCC-P4’
Catch up on our event on IMI project ITCC-P4, which delivered tools to help identify promising molecules that could form the basis of new drugs to treat childhood cancer.