CREATE Health celebrates 20 years of advancing cancer research in Lund
CREATE Health Translational Cancer Centre at Lund University celebrates its 20th anniversary – an important milestone for cancer research in Lund and for the thriving life science environment at Medicon Village.
The anniversary was marked on Thursday, 20 August at Medicon Village with a well-attended symposium, bringing together researchers from Lund and leading international cancer researchers to reflect on two decades of translational research and explore the future of cancer treatment. Speakers included Douglas Hanahan, George Coukos and Michele De Palma, alongside leading researchers from the CREATE Health community.
The celebrations continued with an informal anniversary gathering at Bistro Merge. Petter Hartman, CEO of Medicon Village Innovation, moderated conversations with Carl Borrebaeck, about the origin of CREATE Health and its first 20 years, Sara Ek about CREATE Health today, and George Coukos about the patient perspective and the future of ATMP therapies.
“When we started CREATE Health 20 years ago, our ambition was clear: to bring individualised cancer therapies, based on cutting edge technologies, faster to patients. Twenty years later, it is rewarding to see how far we have come – and even more exciting to see about what we can contribute with for the next 20 years of cancer research and what it will mean for patients,” says Professor Carl Borrebaeck, founder of CREATE Health.
CREATE Health’s 20th anniversary is also an important milestone for Medicon Village. Bringing together academic research, healthcare, entrepreneurs and life science companies in one place is at the heart of Medicon Village’s mission – creating the conditions for research to translate more rapidly into innovation and patient benefit.
“CREATE Health is a great example of what can happen when outstanding research, entrepreneurship and collaboration come together. Having this research environment here at Medicon Village is something we are very proud of – and we look forward to being part of its next chapter,” says Petter Hartman, CEO of Medicon Village Innovation.
The afternoon and evening offered a fitting celebration of 20 years of research, collaboration and progress – while also marking the beginning of a new chapter for CREATE Health and cancer research in Lund.
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