21-23 March 2016, Florence - Italy
Booklet
Background Document
Report
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Science and Technology Foresight Project is an Interdepartmental Project of the National Research Council of Italy (CNR), supported by the Italian Ministry for Education and Research (MIUR) and Area Science Park (Trieste).
AIM OF THE F2F MEETING
The transition from today population-based “reactive” medicine to the individual patient-centred data-driven medicine of tomorrow is the big challenge that the health system will face in the next years worldwide. Therefore, in addition to the clinical-pathological parameters, many other factors such as inherited genetics, ethnicity, age and gender, lifestyle including nutrition and, more generally, the socio-economic environment will have to be taken into consideration.
Within this frame, the main aim of this F2F meeting will be to collect opinions from international experts in order to identify long term future needs and bottlenecks in the exploitation of Theranostics for a Preventive, Predictive, Personalized and Participatory Medicine (P4-Medicine) .
Due to the constructive and not just informative nature of the workshop, this is an invitation-only meeting with approximately 50 participants attending the full 3-days-programme. Clinicians with outstanding competences on pathologies with high social impact (neurodegenerative, cardiovascular, metabolic and cancer diseases) will be asked to present the main challenges in the medium-long term and to share their vision with all participants. Several experts of different technological areas (such as nanotechnologies, material science, tissue regeneration, robotics, bioinformatics etc.) as well as representatives from industries, public administrations and civil society together with relevant policymakers have also been invited.
The highly interdisciplinary character of the meeting will encourage everybody to play an active role with a visionary and open-minded approach, taking advantage of the ample time allowed for questions and answers, as well as of plenary and small group discussion. Each expert’s contribution will be crucial for the elaboration of scenarios addressing urgent societal challenges and the validation of a final strategic document finalised to design the roadmap for an innovative medicine based on the individual needs of each patient.
Expected Outputs
- To identify medical needs, bottlenecks, knowledge gaps and new/emerging strategic technological solutions that should be adopted to overcome the obstacles, able to lead to a P4 Medicine.
- To elaborate scenarios addressing the urgent societal challenges of wellness and healthcare.
- To validate a final strategic document encompassing the conclusion of two days of discussions, perspectives and recommendations.
Final Objective
To design a time-dimensioned Science & Technology roadmap
for an innovative medicine based on the individual needs.
