FORUM events promote multi-sector discussion about cutting edge science and its potential consequences and applications.
Formats range form invited lectures to symposia, roundtables and workshops, offering opportunities for debates and discussions on current policies and practices. They also provide a platform for promoting partnerships and networks, as well as joint actions by key stakeholders from across the life sciences sector.
The FORUM has now run over 40 events on pressing issues for health and biomedical research. These include stratified medicine, early diagnosis of cancer, ageing and real world evidence. FORUM activity on stratified medicine fed into NHS England’s strategy for personalised medicine, for example, and work on the importance of regional life sciences clusters has fed into work around the Life Sciences Industrial Strategy and of the Office of Life Sciences. Another FORUM meeting explored industry needs around digital capabilities in the NHS, and was used in designing an assessment model for digital maturity of NHS Trusts, commissioned by NHS England. The 2017 FORUM annual lecture on the mind-body interface brought experts from academia, the NHS and industry together for a stimulating discussion that was covered by widespread UK media including on the front page of the Daily Telegraph, and in the Times, Guardian and Daily Mail.
2020
Healthy ageing conference
2019
2019 FORUM Annual Lecture
Mechanisms underlying multimorbidity
The UK clinical research skills base
Adaptive trials: acceptability, utility and versatility
The future of gene therapies: next steps for the UK
2018
2018 FORUM Annual Lecture - ‘Transforming healthcare through engineering and technology’
FORUM networking event
Delivering novel therapies in the 21st century
Real world evidence scoping roundtable
Early detection and diagnosis research in cancer
Bridging the preclinical-clinical boundary: How can we ensure that the UK remains at the forefront of discovering and developing medicines?
2017
Digital maturity of local health and social care systems: the industry perspective
FORUM 2017 Annual Lecture
Personalised psychiatry
Accelerating access to medical innovation: a research agenda for innovation science
Looking to the future: endpoints in clinical research
Exemplar clinical pathways for a stratified approach to respiratory disease
Geographical clusters follow-up
2016
UK drug discovery landscape
Health economics for stratified medicine
Regulation and governance of health research: five years on
Exemplar clinical pathways for a stratified approach to cardiovascular disease
FORUM Annual Lecture 2016
Influencing the trajectories of ageing
2015
Exemplar clinical pathways for a stratified approach to diabetes
FORUM Annual Lecture 2015
Real world evidence
Stratified, personalised or P4 medicine: a new direction...
Geographical clusters
2014
Data in safe havens
Health apps: regulation and quality control
Patient adherence to medicines
Open Innovation in the NHS
FORUM Annual Lecture 2014
2013
Establishing high-level evidence for the safety and efficacy of medical devices and systems
2013 Annual Forum Lecture: The changing pharmaceutical industry and the opportunity for precision medicine
2012
2012 Annual Forum Lecture: Frameworks of the Regulation of Medicinal Products - Opportunities and Challenges
2010
2010 Annual Forum lecture: The importance of regulatory science to the healthcare portfolio
2009
2009 Annual Forum lecture: UK life sciences - ensuring a healthy future
2008
2008 Annual Forum lecture: The UK pharmaceutical industry - what does the future hold?
2007
2007 Annual Forum lecture: The highs and lows of academic-industrial collaborations
2006
2006 Annual Forum lecture: The human genome - realising the pharmaceutical opportunities
2005
2005 Annual Forum lecture: cancer research in the UK - areas of optimism & concern
2004
2004 Annual Forum lecture: Can Europe compete in biomedical research?
Next steps for using real world evidence - FORUM meeting report
