We summarise all our FORUM events in a meeting report, providing an enduring resource for informing future discussions and policy. Reports cover a diverse range of topics, and provide an important repository for the Academy and our partners. For a full list of both historical and upcoming FORUM events, please see our FORUM events page.
2025
- Transformative medical technologies: from research to impact and back
- Engineering the future through cell and gene therapies
- Hospital at home fit for the future
2024
- Building capacity for research in health and social care
- Early detection of neurodegenerative conditions in primary care and the community - full report
- Bolstering UK health and life sciences innovation through cross-sector collaboration
- Understanding pregnancy: Accelerating the development of new therapies for pregnancy-specific conditions
2023
- 2023 FORUM Sir Colin Dollery Lecture report: How to innovate in health – applying implementation sciences
- Accelerating safe and effective adoption of artificial intelligence in the healthcare system
- Enabling greener clinical trials: a FORUM panel discussion run as part of the Royal Society's conference on 'Sustainability in the research and innovation endeavour' (pages 29-33)
- Enabling greener biomedical research
- The contribution of cross-sector mobility to the sustainability of health research in the UK (This workshop report is a supporting document to the broader working group project on 'Future-proofing UK health research: a people-centred, coordinated approach'.)
2022
- 2022 FORUM Sir Colin Dollery Annual Lecture: Pharmacogenomics, personalisation and public health
- Chronic pain: experimental medicine and clinical insights
- Antimicrobial resistance research: learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic - full report
- Clinical trials for rare and ultra-rare diseases - full report
- Diagnostics: building capacity and capability in the UK - full report
2021
- 2021 FORUM Sir Colin Dollery Lecture: Showcasing the UK's scientific contributions to tackling the COVID-19 pandemic
- Advances in antimicrobial innovation
- Advancing regulatory science for innovative medical products
- Building a sustainable UK diagnostics sector
- Multimorbidity: Cross-sector opportunities for developing new interventions for patients with multiple long-term conditions
- Precision prevention for modifiable health risks: Steps to achieving personalised preventive healthcare
- Women's health: a life course approach - full report
2020
- 2020 FORUM Annual Lecture - Technology for sustainable health and social care
- Public involvement and engagement in research during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Healthy ageing
2019
- Shaping the future training and employment environment for clinical research
- 2019 FORUM Annual Lecture - The promise of human genome editing for rare and genetic disease
- Adaptive trials - acceptability, utility and versatility
- The future of gene therapies: next steps for the UK
2018
- 2018 FORUM Annual Lecture - Transforming health through engineering and technology
- Delivering novel therapies in the 21st century
- Next steps for using real world evidence
- Accelerating the translation of early detection and diagnosis research in cancer
- Bridging the preclinical-clinical boundary
2017
- The mind-body interface - 2017 FORUM Annual Lecture
- Accelerating access to medical innovation: a research agenda for innovation science
- Oncology endpoints in clinical research
- Personalised psychiatry
- Digital maturity of local health and social care systems: the industry perspective
- Exemplar clinical pathways for a stratified approach to severe asthma
- Geographical clusters: a vision for the future
2016
- Regulation and governance of health research: five years on
- Influencing the trajectories of ageing
- Health economics for stratified medicine
- The UK drug discovery landscape
- FORUM Annual Lecture 2016 - What can academia do to improve productivity in the NHS?
- Exemplar clinical pathways for a stratified approach to cardiovascular disease
2015
- Exemplar clinical pathways for a stratified approach to diabetes
- Real world evidence
- Stratified, personalised or 'P4' medicine
- Geographical clusters
- FORUM Annual Lecture 2015 - A vision for the UK life sciences sector
2014
- Health apps: regulation and quality control
- Patient adherence to medicines
- Open innovation in the NHS
- FORUM Annual Lecture 2014 - Horizon scanning: looking ahead to 2025
- Data in safe havens
2013
2012
2010
- Academia, industry and the NHS - collaboration and innovation
- Research and development of medical products: opportunities and challenges - FORUM round table report
2009
- FORUM Annual Lecture 2009 - UK life sciences: ensuring a healthy future
- FORUM Symposium - Genome-wide association studies: understanding the genetics of common disease
- Biotechnology innovation: opportunities and challenges - FORUM round table report
2008
2007
- FORUM Annual Lecture 2007 - The highs and lows of academic industrial collaborations
- FORUM Symposium - Optimizing stratified medicines R&D: addressing scientific and economic issues
2006
- FORUM Annual Lecture 2006 - The human genome: realising pharmaceutical opportunities
- FORUM Symposium - Drug discovery
2005
2004
- FORUM Annual Lecture 2004 - Can Europe compete in biomedical research?
- FORUM Symposium - Medicines for children
Transformative medical technologies FORUM report
