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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 Drake
Deputy Director-General

Deputy Director-General: Planet, People and Science for Policy, Directorate-General for Research and Innovation, European Commission

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Cary Adams
CEO

Union for International Cancer Control (UICC)

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Elisabete Weiderpass
Director General

International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC)

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Antonella Cardone
CEO and Patient Advocacy Expert

CEO, Cancer Patient Europe and
Patient Advocacy Expert and Advisor to the Board of Pancreatic Cancer Europe

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Michael Baumann
Chairman and Scientific Director

Chairman and Scientific Director, German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ).
President, European Academy of Cancer Sciences (EACS)

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Niklas Blomberg
Executive Director

Innovative Health Initiative (IHI)

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Marianne Pilgaard
CEO

Trial Nation Denmark

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Greg Simon
Former Executive Director

White House Cancer Moonshot Task Force

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Jens K. Habermann
Director General

Biobanking and Biomolecular Resources Research Infrastructure – European Research Infrastructure Consortium (BBMRI-ERIC).

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Patrik Rossi
MD, PhD. Managing Director

Cancer Theme, Karolinska University Hospital

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Niklas Hedberg
Chief Pharmacist

Swedish Dental and Pharmaceutical Benefits Agency (TLV)

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Ulrika Årehed Kågström
Secretary-General

The Swedish Cancer Society and;
President, UICC

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Malin Sund
Professor of Surgery

Helsinki University and Umeå University, and Chair of the The Swedish Cancer Society Research Board

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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

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Wolfgang Fecke
Executive Director

Association of European Cancer Leagues (ECL)

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Isabel Rubio
Breast Cancer Surgeon and President

European Cancer Organization (ECO)

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Patricia Vandamme, PharmD
Policy Officer

Anticancer Fund

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Jessica Polfjärd
Member of the European Parliament

European Parliament

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Panel of journalists

The conference will feature ongoing reflections from a panel of leading journalists, including:

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