Dr Andy Richards CBE is an entrepreneur specialising in healthcare and life sciences. He has a track record as a founder, director and active investor in more than 25 innovative healthcare and life science companies. Andy will discuss emerging trends in healthcare from his perspectives as an entrepreneur and investor. He will focus on the newly developing inter-disciplinary ecosystem within the healthcare sector, where information, data, healthcare and life sciences are coming together to create new and exciting opportunities.
The panel discussion draws together five experts to discuss Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Mental Health – Opportunities to Make a Difference.
- Piers Ricketts, Chief Executive of the Eastern Academic Health Science Network and Chair of the Academic Health Science Network
- Prof Sabine Bahn, Director of Cambridge Centre for Neuropsychiatric Research, University of Cambridge, co-founder of Psynova Neureotech
- Prof Peter Jones, Debuty Head of School of Clinical Medicine, University of Cambridge
- Dr Letizia Mortara, Lecturer at IfM Centre for Technology Management, University of Cambridge
- Peter Templeton, Founder of The William Templeton Foundation for Young People’s Mental Health, Executive Director at IfM Education and Consultancy Services
The discussion will focus on:
- Joining up the science – to understand potential causal links and identify opportunities to make a difference
- Innovation and entrepreneurship – generating ideas, selecting opportunities, commercialising innovations
- Implementation in practice – implications for the delivery of healthcare.
You are warmly invited to join our event about “The Future of Healthcare Innovations”, to be held on Thu 14 Nov 2019, 16:30 - 20:00 at the Maxwell Centre, Cambridge. This event is jointly organised by Impulse and the University Enterprise Zone (UEZ).
Please join us for this stimulating event. To book your place, please register at: https://impulse2020.eventbrite.co.uk or send an email to impulse@maxwell.cam.ac.uk
