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📚 It’s a long weekend here in Belgium, so today’s #IHISummerOfScience offering is a #longread – our 2024 highlights brochure is packed with information and project successes!
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August 14, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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🌞 Summer’s here, and if you’re looking for something to read on the beach / up the mountain / on the terrace of a café, you’re in the right place!
📚 Starting next week, every day we’ll share an IHI news story from the past year with the hashtag #IHISummerOfScience
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July 29, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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📃 Earlier this year, a consortium announced plans to use a master protocol developed by our EU-PEARL project in the first Europe-wide platform study on the safety & efficacy of treatments for #depression
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New depression trial will use EU-PEARL study designs
The first Europe-wide platform study on the safety and efficacy of treatments for depression will use study designs from the IMI EU-PEARL project.
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August 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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🏛️ Helping projects achieve regulatory impact is the topic of today’s #IHISummerOfScience story. Writing in @natrevdrugdiscov.nature.com, authors from IHI and @cpathinstitute.bsky.social offer their advice to consortia

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New paper in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery highlights how to maximise the regulatory impact of consortium-based projects
The paper, by authors from IHI and the Critical Path Institute, highlights the importance of a structured, strategic approach to regulatory issues from the beginning.
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August 25, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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👶 All too often, children are treated with medicines and devices designed for adults.

IMI and IHI projects are turning this around, advancing #paediatric research and delivering results that are making a difference

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New paper highlights strong IMI/IHI contribution to paediatric research
IMI and IHI projects are boosting paediatric research and development, writes IHI’s Nathalie Seigneuret in Frontiers in Medicine.
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August 4, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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🏥 #Immunotherapy has revolutionised #cancer treatment, but it doesn’t work for everyone
🚦 IMI project Immune-Image devised a test based on #imaging to determine if a patient will respond well to immunotherapy or not
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New immunotracers indicate whether immunotherapy will work
New tools developed by the Immune-Image project can indicate the presence of cells that inhibit immunotherapy.
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August 20, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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🌍 The #DraghiReport on EU #competitiveness highlights the importance of making Europe more attractive for #ClinicalTrials.
🏥 As today's #IHISummerOfScience story shows, IMI and IHI projects are contributing to this effort in multiple ways!
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Making Europe more attractive for conducting clinical trials
IHI and IMI projects are enhancing the environment in Europe for conducting clinical trials by connecting relevant sites and experts, investigating new trial designs and protocols, and developing tool...
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August 21, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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🧫 Developing new #antibiotics is extremely difficult
👩‍💻 IMI project COMBINE developed an #ArtificialIntelligence model to improve selection of compounds that can fight multi-drug resistant bugs
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Directing the power of AI towards finding compounds to combat antimicrobial resistance
The COMBINE project trained an AI model to improve the selection of compounds that can fight multi-drug resistant bacteria – a newly published peer-reviewed paper outlines how they did it.
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August 18, 2025 at 9:40 AM
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👁️ Age-related macular degeneration is a leading cause of #blindness
📉 The EMA has issued letters of support for MACUSTAR's work on tools to accurately detect changes in eyesight & measures to assess how well a treatment works
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MACUSTAR receives third nod of approval from regulators
The European Medicines Agency issued a third letter of support for the development of new biomarkers and clinical endpoints for a condition that blurs vision and can lead to blindness.
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August 8, 2025 at 8:54 AM
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📚 Published last autumn, the official evaluation of IMI2 and IHI highlighted the ability of the programmes to drive innovation and have an impact on patient care and quality of life.
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‘Ahead of the curve’ – new study confirms relevance and value of IHI
A wide-ranging evaluation of IMI2 and IHI highlights the ability of the programmes to drive innovation and have an impact on patient care and quality of life.
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August 7, 2025 at 8:33 AM
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🔒 IMI/IHI projects provide a neutral platform where #HealthData from public/private sources can be shared within a secure environment, making them a perfect testing ground for implementing the #EuropeanHealthDataSpace
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IHI and IMI: Laying the foundations of the European Health Data Space
IMI and IHI projects provide a neutral platform where public and private datasets can be shared within a secure environment. This means that IHI and IMI projects are the perfect testing ground for ful...
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August 22, 2025 at 8:34 AM
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💊 IMI’s AMR Accelerator is a model for how public-private partnerships (PPPs) can make an impact on the complex world of #antibiotic research and development, experts say.

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How to fight AMR: public-private partnerships lead the way
The AMR Accelerator is a proven model for the development of new antimicrobial drugs, experts say
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August 5, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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👴 #Vaccines are key to helping older people stay healthy, but vaccination rates are lower than they should be.
👩‍⚕️ IMI project VITAL has delivered tools to help boost vaccination among the elderly.
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Promoting vaccination amongst the elderly with VITAL’s new tools
The VITAL project published an educational platform as well as a toolbox to boost vaccination uptake amongst older people.
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August 26, 2025 at 2:47 PM
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🏞️ IMI/IHI projects are addressing the environmental impacts of the health sector, advancing clean medicines manufacture, environmental risk assessments for drugs & the sustainability of single-use medical devices + packaging
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Going green: meet the projects boosting the environmental performance of the health sector
IMI and IHI projects are tackling the environmental impacts of the sector, from the use of water, energy and raw materials to pollution and waste management.
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August 27, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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📊 IMI project SOPHIA used machine learning to uncover 5 subgroups of people whose risk for #obesity complications and #BMI are not aligned. This could help identify more people at risk of these complications.
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Predicting obesity complications – in those who are not obese
The IMI Sophia project identified five subgroups of people whose risk for obesity complications is not aligned with their body mass index (BMI).
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August 11, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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😷 IMI #COVID19 project CARE helped advance our understanding of the SARS-CoV-2 virus and laid the groundwork for improving #preparedness for future #pandemics.
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Preparing for the next pandemic with the CARE project
After the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020, several projects including the CARE consortium were funded by IMI to investigate pandemic preparedness. We sat down for a chat with Yves Lévy, the ...
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August 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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🚶‍♂️The way you walk offers clues to your health
📉 IMI project MOBILISE-D's algorithms translate walking patterns into indicators to track changes in disease status
✅ Companies are using the public algorithms in their products
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Real-world results: Mobilise-D algorithms enter the market
The algorithms that translate walking patterns into indicators of health have been integrated by private companies EMPATICA, Clario, McRoberts and Actigraph into their products.
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August 19, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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👭 There are still big gaps in what we know about women’s health.

🤸‍♀️ IHI and IMI projects are investigating safe medicine use in pregnancy as well as in cancers and autoimmune diseases that primarily affect women.

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IHI and IMI projects are closing the gender gap in health
Up until fairly recently, women were largely left out of clinical trials and there are still gaps in what we know about women’s health. IHI and IMI projects are investigating safe medicine use in preg...
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August 6, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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🤝 #Philanthropic organisations are contributing significantly to IHI call 11. In the last #IHISummerOfScience story, they explain why IHI is well placed to enable public, private and philanthropic partners to work together strategically
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The strategic value of philanthropic organisations in public-private partnerships - the example of the Innovative Health Initiative
Philanthropic organisations are contributing significantly to IHI call 11. Here, they explain why IHI is well placed to enable public, private and philanthropic partners to work together strategically...
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August 29, 2025 at 9:52 AM