Europe's IMI announces launch of 2008 priorities

6 April 2008

The Innovative Medicines Initiative, a collaboration between the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations and the European Commission, has announced the launch of its first presentation of the scientific priorities for the group in 2008. The event is scheduled for April 30 in Brussels, Belgium, at the EC headquarters.

Three areas of the drug development process are expected to feature at the briefing: safety and pharmacovigilance; efficacy; and education and training.

Attending the launch will be Janez Potocnik, the Commissioner for Science and Research and Arthur Higgins, the president of the EFPIA and also chief executive of Germany's Bayer Healthcare. Other attendees will be representatives from both the drug industry and the EC, with stakeholders from professional and patient organizations, academia and European governments.

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