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Investing in Biomedical Innovation for Health and Economic Growth

Showing how research creates value for patients, health systems and economies

21 October 2026 | 3:00pm - 3:50pm BST | Online

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Senior Industry Leaders Will Share Their Insights

This Financial Times webinar, hosted in partnership with ViiV Healthcare, will bring together policymakers, funders, researchers, philanthropies and industry leaders to explore how to keep medical innovation moving forward. The conversation will examine how to create the right conditions for future breakthroughs – and deliver clear benefits for patients, health systems, economies and society. Speakers will discuss how to better recognise the economic, health and social impact of new medicines, how partnerships can help share risk and accelerate progress, and how new funding models could support the next generation of drug development.

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World-Class Business Leaders and Speakers

Gloria Ghéquière

Deputy Head of Cabinet of the Minister of Health

Federal Government of Belgium

Charlotte Allerton

Head of Research & Development and Chief Scientific Officer

ViiV Healthcare

Michael Peel

Science Editor

Financial Times

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The Investment Case

How can we better show the value of medical innovation to support investment and policy reform?

Strategic Partnerships

How can partnerships help share risk and accelerate progress in the development of new medicines and other health innovations?

Next Generation Breakthroughs

What can progress in chronic and infectious diseases teach us about how to support the next generation of biomedical innovations?

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