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.
2023
Enabling greener biomedical research - full report
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
Chronic pain: experimental medicine and clinical insights
Antimicrobial resistance research: learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic - full report
Antimicrobial resistance research: learning lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic - short summary
Clinical trials for rare and ultra-rare diseases - summary for people living with rare conditions
Clinical trials for rare and ultra-rare diseases - full workshop report
Diagnostics: building capacity and capability in the UK - short summary
Diagnostics: building capacity and capability in the UK - full report
Women's health: a life course approach - full report
2021
Advances in antimicrobial innovation
Advancing regulatory science for innovative medical products
Building a sustainable UK diagnostics sector
Women's health: a life course approach - full report
Women's health: a life course approach - short summary
2020
2020 FORUM Annual Lecture - Technology for sustainable health and social care
Public involvement and engagement in research during the COVID-19 pandemic
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
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
Stratified, personalised or 'P4' medicine
FORUM Annual Lecture 2015 - A vision for the UK life sciences sector
2014
Health apps: regulation and quality control
Patient adherence to medicines
FORUM Annual Lecture 2014 - Horizon scanning: looking ahead to 2025
2013
2012
2010
FORUM Annual Lecture 2010 - The importance of regulatory science to the healthcare portfolio
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
FORUM Annual Lecture 2008 - The UK pharmaceutical industry - what does the future hold?
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
FORUM Annual Lecture 2005 - Cancer research in the UK: areas of optimism and concern
2004
FORUM Annual Lecture 2004 - Can Europe compete in biomedical research?
FORUM Symposium - Medicines for children
2003
FORUM Annual Lecture 2003: Pharmacogenetics - personalised safety and segmented efficacy