TY - JOUR
KW - AI
KW - Biomedical Research
KW - Funding programme
KW - Innovative approaches
KW - Methods
KW - NAMs
KW - Patients
KW - prevention
KW - Public Health
KW - regulatory acceptance
KW - translational research
KW - Unmet medical needs
AU - Francesca Pistollato
AU - Fabia Furtmann
AU - Sarah Abitbol
AU - Marta Agostinho
AU - Toni Andreu
AU - Bianca Baluta
AU - Regina G. H. Beets-Tan
AU - Sonja Beken
AU - Silvia Ciotti
AU - Sandra Coecke
AU - Tiago Correia
AU - Christian Desaintes
AU - Frédéric Destrebecq
AU - Philippe Detilleux
AU - Sergio Di Virgilio
AU - Antigoni Effraimidou
AU - Luisa Ferreira Bastos
AU - Annalisa Gastaldello
AU - Jens K. Habermann
AU - Ioan Hanes
AU - Mihajlo Jakovljevic
AU - Hugh Laverty
AU - Benoit Maisonneuve
AU - Lindsay J Marshall
AU - Dania Movia
AU - Giorgia Pallocca
AU - Francesco Pappalardo
AU - Roberta Pastorino
AU - Vilma Radvilaite
AU - Kirsty Reid
AU - Silke Riegger
AU - Giulia Russo
AU - Daniela Salvatori
AU - Valerie Speirs
AU - Marco Straccia
AU - Danilo A Tagle
AU - Jan Turner
AU - Janny van den Eijnden–van Raaij
AU - Laura Viviani
AU - Helder Constantino
AB - The biomedical research landscape is undergoing a transformative shift towards human-centric, interdisciplinary approaches aimed to enhance translational relevance, amplify research impact, and address pressing public health challenges and unmet medical needs (UMNs). Recent European and international ikenitiatives have prioritised the development and implementation of human-centric non-animal methods (NAMs) to increase research translatability, and complement or replace the use of animals in life sciences. Effective cross-sector dialogue among interest-holders is key to align goals, harmonise strategies, and cross-fertilise ideas, ensuring evidence-driven policies that deliver tangible benefits for public health and society. In this spirit, on November 18, 2024, Humane Society International/Europe (since February 14th 2025, Humane World for Animals), on behalf of the Biomedical Research for the 21st Century (BioMed21) Collaboration, hosted a science policy workshop entitled “Leveraging Innovative Research Tools to Meet Public Health Challenges”. This event provided a platform for dialogue among key interest-holders to identify priority areas requiring multidisciplinary interventions. Discussions addressed leveraging innovative technologies to tackle UMNs, reassessing research infrastructure for their future-proof potential, and advancing human-centric tools to drive transformative policy changes. Themes included the societal impact of funded research, standardisation needs, and systems-based solutions to interconnected challenges. This report summarises insights and outputs from the workshop, offering a roadmap to foster impactful, science-driven, and health-focused biomedical research paradigms that meet evolving societal and public health needs.
BT - NAM Journal
DA - 2025-01-01
DO - 10.1016/j.namjnl.2025.100023
N2 - The biomedical research landscape is undergoing a transformative shift towards human-centric, interdisciplinary approaches aimed to enhance translational relevance, amplify research impact, and address pressing public health challenges and unmet medical needs (UMNs). Recent European and international ikenitiatives have prioritised the development and implementation of human-centric non-animal methods (NAMs) to increase research translatability, and complement or replace the use of animals in life sciences. Effective cross-sector dialogue among interest-holders is key to align goals, harmonise strategies, and cross-fertilise ideas, ensuring evidence-driven policies that deliver tangible benefits for public health and society. In this spirit, on November 18, 2024, Humane Society International/Europe (since February 14th 2025, Humane World for Animals), on behalf of the Biomedical Research for the 21st Century (BioMed21) Collaboration, hosted a science policy workshop entitled “Leveraging Innovative Research Tools to Meet Public Health Challenges”. This event provided a platform for dialogue among key interest-holders to identify priority areas requiring multidisciplinary interventions. Discussions addressed leveraging innovative technologies to tackle UMNs, reassessing research infrastructure for their future-proof potential, and advancing human-centric tools to drive transformative policy changes. Themes included the societal impact of funded research, standardisation needs, and systems-based solutions to interconnected challenges. This report summarises insights and outputs from the workshop, offering a roadmap to foster impactful, science-driven, and health-focused biomedical research paradigms that meet evolving societal and public health needs.
PY - 2025
EP - 100023
ST - Leveraging innovative research tools to meet public health challenges
T2 - NAM Journal
TI - Leveraging innovative research tools to meet public health challenges: a BioMed21 workshop report
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S3050620425000181
VL - 1
Y2 - 2025-11-20
SN - 3050-6204
ER -