Innovation hangout for academia and industry #3 2023

Welcome to the third UiO Growth House innovation hangout of 2023 – a meeting place for academia and industry. This hangout is a collaboration with Health2B and Norway Health Tech and focus on health technology.

People talking and networking. Signs saying innovation hangout – a meeting place for academia and industry and tonight, talks, matchmaking, mingling.

For researchers and students at the University of Oslo, researchers at Oslo University Hospital (OUS) and Akershus University Hospital (Ahus), members of Norway Health Tech, The Life Science Cluster, LMI, Oslo Cancer Cluster, Aleap, the Oslo Science Park community and Oslo Science City partners. Free of charge, but you have to sign up.

Programme

Inspirational talk

Elen H?egElen H?eg, head of the open innovation arena Health2B

More about the speaker, her talk and Health2B

Elen is an experienced life science enthusiast with a degree in pharmacy from UiO 2000. She has a broad background from pharmaceutical industry, working across the pharmaceutical development value chain from regulatory, clinical, GMP/manufacturing to health technology assessment and procurement.

She has worked in various organisations from start up biotech to industry organisation to big pharma to global health partnerships. Before joining Health2B in October 2023, Elen through her 4 years in Coalition for Pandemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI) carried a key role in the COVID-19 pandemic response through CEPIs work on policy and partnerships. Elen has a solid track-record in fostering partnerships in the interphase of science and policy both on national and global level, informing and driving key ecosystem and framework changes to enable innovation and access. She thrives from fostering relationships and connecting dots within and across organisations.

Founded in 2022 by the Oslo University Hospital, Norway Health Tech and Oslo Science Park, Health2B is a brand new concept for collaboration based on open innovation. Health2B serves as a door opener between business and the public health service and aims to realize the health service of the future through strengthened public-private, public-public and private-private collaboration.

In her talk she will share her experience and her reflections on the needs for health innovation and collaboration and the role of Health2B in this regards.

Role model talk

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