– Sessions every Tuesday from 3 pm to 6 pm CET (mostly online).
– Workload of 15 hours/week with flexible schedule format.
– Trips: one 3-week Clinical Immersion in Madrid (partially online), and three Intensification weeks in Erlangen, Boston, and Debrecen.
– You will form teams organically throughout the program. You are open to work in multiple teams.
– Compensated effort (stipend or time-release, depending on each individual situation).
Over a 6-month period, you, along with a diverse group of talented individuals across Europe, will spend an average of half-time compensated effort (it is, without leaving your current jobs and projects) to identify unmet medical needs, brainstorm and evaluate potential solutions and plan research project proposals. Several weeks are also spent in a focused Clinical Immersion and Intensification trips in Europe and Boston (US). At the end of the program, projects with demonstrated potential for impact may establish longer-term efforts with key stakeholders.
As a Fellow, you will identify and validate unmet medical needs, explore and evaluate potential solutions, and plan research project proposals, guided by Faculty – experts from academic, commercial and clinical backgrounds. You’ll start a journey of innovation for healthcare impact.
Identify compelling unmet medical needs around the proposed Focus Areas.
Devise a set of possible new solutions. Meet with key stakeholders to ensure that the solutions are practical and appropriate.
Narrow down to the most promising solutions and plan research project opportunities.
Explore collaborations and further funding opportunities for those projects with greatest potential for impact.
You will work through the Catalyst process to find solutions that improve patient outcomes by addressing the following high priority Focus Areas.
As a Fellow, you join Catalyst Europe to discover opportunities for research with high translational and impact potential, and prepare yourself to execute new research projects.
Identify, evaluate, and document unmet medical needs. Visit laboratories, talk with clinicians and explore the literature to create problem and need statements.
Observe the day-to-day life of clinicians, nurses, patients, and other individuals involved in a hospital. Discover needs. Interview key stakeholders. (Run partially online, partially in-person in Madrid.)
Proof of Need presentations to a panel of experts for progress review.
Observe the day-to-day life of clinicians, nurses, patients, and other individuals involved in a hospital. Discover needs. Interview key stakeholders. (Run partially online, partially in-person in Madrid.)
Identify and evaluate opportunities (need & solution idea). Work in teams for an in-depth analysis. Develop and document your opportunity.
Proof of opportunity development. Workshops and in-person meetings & interactions with local experts.
Proof of Opportunity presentations to a panel of experts for progress review.
Proof of opportunity development. Workshops and in-person meetings & interactions with local experts.
Proof of Opportunity presentations to a panel of experts for progress review.
Develop a plan to launch a research project which outlines the milestones in a 12-18 month time frame.
Project Proposal development. Workshops and in-person meetings & interactions with local experts.
Project Proposal presentations to a panel of experts for final assessment.
Project Proposal development. Workshops and in-person meetings & interactions with local experts.
Conclude the program with a portfolio of validated research opportunities, with real opportunity to transition to project execution —including exploration of funding and commercialization opportunities.
Research Project Plan assessment, workshops and in-person meetings & interactions with local experts, mentoring for transition to Project Execution. Closing ceremony.
As a graduated Fellow, you will explore collaborations with Catalyst Europe partners and other European institutions to cooperatively execute these research projects. You will also apply for competitive research grants to raise the funds required to develop the need-driven research projects.
All this process will be mentored by Catalyst Europe Faculty, who will continue helping you in your path of making an impact in human healthcare!
A program
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