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Host: Bernd Montag, CEO, Siemens Healthineers

Discussion Leaders:
Patrizia Cavazzoni, MD, Acting Director, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, FDA
Esther Krofah, Executive Director, FasterCures, Milken Institute
Ramona Sequeira, President, Takeda Pharmaceuticals USA, Takeda; Confab Committee

Discussion leaders shared their perspectives on:

  • Impact of regulatory policymaking to expedite development of therapeutics
  • Update on promising therapeutics, supply chain innovations and timeline for broad distribution as well as therapeutic priorities, initiatives, challenges
  • Addressing vaccine hesitancy and equitable distribution
  • Innovative public-private collaboration to prioritize therapeutic candidates, streamline clinical trial activity, and access resources across all stakeholders
  • Addressing delays in clinical trial enrollment caused by the global pandemic and steps organizations can take to expedite enrollment
  • Lessons learned to leverage the pandemic mindset and overcome barriers post-COVID and facilitate more agile, speedier processes


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The COVID-19 Therapeutic Innovation: Regulatory Policymaking and Expedited Clinical Trial Innovation webcast is part of our Pandemic Response Series which features insights from federal and state government officials, leading health care provider, payer and life science CEOs on best practices for mitigation, management of outbreaks and collaborations with public health infrastructure. Executives provide lessons learned thus far from the front lines, shed light on available diagnostics, treatments, forthcoming vaccines and discuss necessary conditions to chart a path out of the crisis.

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