Good Practices for Fostering Transformative Research in Health and Life Sciences

There total number of people with dementia worldwide is estimated at 36 million, more than 7 million of which are in Europe and more than 600.000 in Spain. One in 10 people over 65 suffers from Alzheimer, the most common form of dementia, and increased life expectancy gives us reason to believe that these number will nearly double every 20 years.

Transformative research is an innovative model based on non-conventional projects, inspired by high risk/high return research, in line with cutting-edge international initiatives. This ambitious, innovative approach seeks out groundbreaking ideas by creating research teams that work in exceptional interdisciplinary environments in order to foster the ongoing exchange of ideas from different points of view and scientific cultures.

The aim of these debate sessions, coorganized by B·Debate together with the Pasqual Maragall Foundation, is to analyze success stories in transformative research, to discuss strategies, procedures and funding and management mechanisms, and to foresee ways they can be applied in focusing the challenges facing biomedical research. They will feature the heads of the top funding programs for national and international research and researchers from the life sciences arena around the world. 

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Spots limited. If interested, send your application form in a message with “Interès Transformative Research” in the subject line indicating your name, position, organization and contact details to: bdebate@bdebate.org.