Experts from University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB) will be joining high-profile speakers, and clinical, academic and business leaders at the inaugural Life Science Summit in Birmingham on 18 and 19 March 2013.

The event will incorporate the launch of the Edgbaston Medical Quarter, which provides a focus on and recognition of the world-class medical and healthcare provision the Trust and wider Birmingham has to offer.

Supported by pioneering businesses, academics and clinicians in the city, the 12.5km² Quarter will be managed and promoted by life science specialist Medilink WM. It will feature an Institute of Translational Medicine: a unique collaboration between UHB and the University of Birmingham to bring together academic and research excellence. 

The summit will feature keynote sessions and workshop themes, including:

• an update on the Office of Life Science Strategy
• translating research into business
• Academic Health Science Networks – changing the way academia, industry and the NHS engage
• marketing the business of healthcare
• incubation and start up for life science business
• evidence based innovation
• trauma medicines and technologies – the opportunities for industry

UHB speakers include: Tim Jones, Executive Director of Delivery; Professor Charles Craddock, Centre for Clinical Haematology; Dr Paul Cockwell, Consultant Nephrologist; and Tony Belli, Reader in Neurotrauma.

The summit, at Edgbaston Stadium, is free to attend and provides a unique opportunity to network and do business with more than 250 delegates each day. For more information on attending the event or for details on exhibition and sponsorship opportunities, please contact Lucy Watkins.

Telephone: 0121 452 5630
Email: LucyW@MedilinkWM.co.uk