Precision Medicine Forum – Patient Week convenes healthcare professionals, researchers, industry, payers and patients/patient advocates in a unique setting which puts the patient front and centre of the discussions. It’s widely acknowledged that patients should...
It is currently “cucumber time”, or the slow news season, that time during the summer months when people have time to think, instead of work, and I want to take advantage of this to generate a vision for the future of Inspire2live and the importance of the World...
With her book “The Biomedical Empire”, Barbara Katz Rothman, a medical sociologist from New York University, makes me a bit sad. She starts with that irritating remark: “Just imagine the financial crisis around the world if we just cured sickness”. She describes the...
Every now and then I give an update on the World Campus’ strategic focus. Usually I look back. However sometimes it’s better to write whilst we’re “caught in the act”, rather than after having reached a new level. We’re on the verge of moving to a new level so I will...
Our perspective on the upcoming European In-Vitro Diagnostics Regulation (IVDR) All our Inspire2Live patient advocates are volunteers. I lost my dad when he was only 47 and other patient advocates are patients themselves. Through our proximity to the tragedy of...
