Call for strategies to fight cancer in Europe with the 1st Gago Conference

The Health Research and Innovation Institute (i3S) from the University of Porto will host the first "Gago Conference on European Science Policy".

This event is sponsored by the Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal (MCTES) and will bring together in Porto, on 14 February, European researchers, politicians and entrepreneurs for a wide-ranging debate on Europe's present and future cancer research.

Mário Barbosa and Manuel Sobrinho Simões, both Directors at i3S, co-organise this initiative at local level.

The fundamental goal of this conference is to debate "the call for clinical cancer research in order to reduce its impact on European society".

In a statement, the MCTES highlights the "unavoidable need of support for the development of cancer research policies so as to ensure the goal that 3 in 4 cancer patients can aspire to better life chances as of 2030".

This event is also attended by the European Commissioner for Science and Research, Carlos Moedas, the Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education, Manuel Heitor, the Minister of Health, Adalberto Campos, the Director of the European Research Council, Jean Pierre Bourgignon, as well as the main leaders of the Cancer Core Europe Network.

This first "Gago Conference on European Science Policy" will be the starting point of a series of international meetings, jointly organised by the Minister for Science, Technology and Higher Education, Mariano Gago, and Julio Celis, from the Danish Centre for Translational Breast Cancer Research, Teresa Madurelli, former member of the European Parliament and Rosalia Vargas, from Agency Ciência Viva.

See here the full programme.