Maastricht Meeting
Medical
innovation prizes as a mechanism to promote innovation and
access
Final agenda
Venue: University of Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands.
Monday morning: Aula, Maastricht University, Faculty of Economics, Tongersestraat 53
Monday afternoon & Tuesday: Aula, Maastricht University, Minderbroedersberg 4-6
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Monday,
Jan 28
Location: Aula, Maastricht University, Faculty of Economics, Tongersestraat 53
09.00 Welcome
Konrad Osterwalder, Rector, United Nations University
James Love,
Knowledge Ecology International (KEI)
09.15 Panel 1 Overview, prizes to stimulate
innovation
Chair: Kalipso
Chalkidou, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health on secondment from
UK NICE
William Fisher,
Harvard Law School: Prizes for medical innovation (20 minutes)
Steve Merrill, US National Academy of Science: Innovation prizes in other fields (15 minutes)
10.45 Break
11.00 Panel 2
Prizes, the U.S. and European Context
Chair: Suerie Moon, Harvard, KSG
Dwayne Spradlin, CEO, Innocentive, Prizes for Research tools and
Basic Medical Research (15 minutes)
Nicole Szlezak, Chief
Scientific Officer, Prize for Life (15 minutes)
David
Reynolds, Senator Sanders Office, S.2210, the Medical Innovation
Prize (15 minutes)
Joan Rovira, Autonomous University of
Barcelona, Spain (15 minutes)
Location: Aula, Maastricht University, Minderbroedersberg 4-6
13.00 Venue change & Lunch
14.30 Panel 3
Chair:
Thiru Balasubramaniam, KEI
Pierre Chirac, Medecins sans Frontieres: Prize for TB low-cost point of care rapid diagnostic test (15 minutes)
Aidan Hollis, University of Calgary: A voluntary prize mechanism (15 minutes)
15.30 Break
15.45 Panel 4
Issues in Prize Design
Chair: Ahmed Abdel Latif, ICTSD
John Erickson, CEO Sequoia Pharmaceuticals: A system of prizes that rewards product development in stages (15 minutes)
James Love, KEI: Prizes and follow-on innovation (15 minutes)
16.45 Panel 5 Views of Developing
Countries
Chair:
Spring Gombe, KEI
Dilip Shah, Secretary General, Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance (15 minutes)
Ahmed Abdel Latif, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD) (15 minutes)
A.E. Ogwell, Kenya Ministry of Health (15 minutes)
18.00 End of the first day
19.00 Speakers
dinner
Tuesday, Jan 29
Location: Aula, Maastricht University, Minderbroedersberg 4-6
09.00 Panel 6
- Economists on prizes
Chair: Rishab Ghosh, UNU-MERIT
Ove Grandstrand, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden (15 minutes)
Lee Davis, Copenhagen Business School (15 minutes)
Bart Verspagen, Eindhoven University of Technology (15 minutes)
10.30 Break
10.45 Panel
7 Sustainable financing for prizes
Chair:
Charles Clift, DFID
Michelle Childs, KEI: A prize mechanism for UNITAID/Global Fund (15 minutes)
Peter Brown, SecurePharma: possible role of the International Finance Facility (IFF) in providing
credible and sustainable sources of funding for innovation prizes for neglected diseases (15 minutes)
Nicoletta Dentico, Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi): Transaction based funding mechanisms for public goods (15 minutes)
James Love, KEI: Creating Fixed Amount Prize Funds that will be divided among qualifying projects, with total funding a fraction of GDP or health care budgets. (15 minutes)
Respondent: Luc Soete, UNU-MERIT
12.30 Lunch
14.00 Panel 8 The
management of prizes
Chair:
Oliver Moldenhauer, MSF
Amy Kapczynski, University of California, Berkeley (15 minutes)
Ron Marchant, former Chief Executive of the UK Intellectual Property Office (15 minutes)
Kalipso Chalkidou, Johns Hopkins School of Public Health on secondment from UK NICE: Valuing prizes and making reimbursement decisions: how different? (15 minutes)
16.00 Break
16.15 Panel 9
Conclusions and Next Steps
Chair: Amy Kapczynski, University of California, Berkeley
A.E. Ogwell, Kenya Ministry of Health
Rishab
Ghosh, UNU-MERIT
James
Love, KEI
17.30 End of the workshop