Across Europe, world-class cancer research discoveries are being made – yet too often they take too long to reach patients. The gap between research, decision-making, and real-world impact remains one of our greatest missed opportunities.
Momentum brings together a carefully curated group of leaders from across sectors -
policymakers, healthcare leaders, patient representatives, researchers, civil society, industry and investors - all with a shared ambition: to accelerate Europe’s action on cancer.
Through roundtable discussions and co-creation sessions, participants engage
directly with the barriers holding progress back and contribute to shaping solutions.
Selected speakers will offer perspectives on key issues such as funding, regulation,
data, clinical trials and the uptake of innovation.
If you want to be part of shaping a more competitive Europe that delivers faster,
better outcomes for patients – this is where that work begins.
Welcome to Momentum.
"The bottleneck is time. Every year we spend moving a discovery through regulatory, reimbursement, and clinical trial bureaucracies is a year patients don’t have. The next breakthrough won’t come from a single lab – it will come from collapsing the distance between discovery and patient. [...] I want to leave Sweden with at least one conversation that changes how I think about something. Not panels - conversations."
Confirmed speakers
Joanna DrakeDeputy Director-General
Deputy Director-General: Planet, People and Science for Policy, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission
Antonella CardoneCEO and Patient Advocacy Expert
CEO, Cancer Patient Europe and
Patient Advocacy Expert and Advisor to the Board of Pancreatic Cancer Europe
Michael BaumannChairman and Scientific Director
Chairman and Scientific Director, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ).
President, European Academy of Cancer Sciences (EACS)
Jens K. HabermannDirector General
Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure – European Research Infrastructure Consortium (BBMRI-ERIC).
Malin SundProfessor of Surgery
Helsinki University and Umeå University, and Chair of the The Swedish Cancer Society Research Board
Mihaela van der Schaar, FRS
John Humphrey Plummer Professor of Machine Learning, AI, and Medicine Director, Cambridge Centre for AI in Medicine University of Cambridge
Karolina WerynskaSenior Scientific Program Manager
Rising Tide Foundation for Clinical Cancer Research (RTFCCR)
Richard Rosenquist BrandellProfessor
Professor and Senior Physician in Clinical Genetics at Karolinska Institutet and Karolinska University Hospital. Director of Genomic Medicine Sweden
Malin EklundPhD, Program Officer
EU’s Beating Cancer Plan, Personalised Medicine
The National Board of Health and Welfare
Marta PuyolPhD, Scientific Director and Deputy General Director
Spanish Association Against Cancer (AECC) and its Scientific Foundation
Panel of journalists
The conference will feature ongoing reflections from a panel of leading journalists, including:
Sarah Neville
Global Health Editor - Financial Times
Alexandra Ivanov Hökmark
Associate Editor - Dagens industri
Helena Smolak
Pharma Correspondent - Handelsblatt
Moderator
Karin Hübinette
Karin Hübinette is one of Sweden’s most experienced journalists and moderators, with more than 25 years in broadcast journalism and current affairs. She is a former presenter and senior editor at Swedish Television (SVT) and has extensive experience leading high-level interviews and discussions on complex societal and political issues. Today, Karin works as an independent journalist and moderator. (Photo: Linnea Elg)
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