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