Information for Candidates' Supervisors

Fellows bring value to their current organizations through their participation in Catalyst Europe by:

• Learning methodologies and adopting skills:
  • Ability to design and execute a strategy for research that leads to impact and increases translational potential.
  • Skills in opportunity validation and value proposition design.
  • Gain understanding about translational research and entrepreneurship.
  • Train a needs-driven innovation mindset, a user-driven design of products and services, and patient-oriented solutions.
  • Critical analysis, defending an idea, oral communication and professional networking.
• Connections: Fellows will be exposed to all kind of stakeholders, not only those who might ultimately utilize the outcome of the research, but others that might bring interesting perspectives or opportunities. Such as physicians, patients, key opinion leaders, experts in specific technological, clinical, technical, legal or regulatory aspects, industry partners, potential funders, etc. Fellows will be encouraged and trained to be active and effective in networking and outreach (this is, expand their network not only for their own benefit but also for the benefit of their organizations, that open new collaboration spaces, one of them being getting closer to the biomedical innovation ecosystem in Massachusetts and the MIT).