Abstract
Lars Sundstrom is Director of Enterprise and Translation at the West of England Academic Health Sciences Network [1] (UK), a Professor of Practice in Translational Medicine and Co-Director of the Elizabeth Blackwell Institute for Health Research at Bristol University [2] (UK), and an honorary Professor of Medicine at Cardiff University (UK). He has extensive experience in translational medicine and clinical neurosciences, holding positions at several eminent universities. He has also held executive and board-level positions at several SMEs, developing new therapeutics for neurological conditions and tools for drug discovery. He has also been an advisor to several UK and local government task forces and to the European Commission and the European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industry Associations. He was a founding member of the European Brain Council in Brussels, and set up the Severnside Alliance for Translational Research, developing a regional network partnership to link clinical and basic scientists. He was also involved in the creation of Health Research Wales.
Highlights
QQ Can you tell us a little about your career to-date, & what your current roles entail?
My father was an inventor and worked on the equipment that went to look for life on the first Mars expedition with NASA
I moved to Southampton to become a lecturer in pharmacology, where I continued working on anti-epileptic medication
Summary
QQ Can you tell us a little about your career to-date, & what your current roles entail?. That led me into what people call translational research (it was not called that at the time) and I spent a bit of time working in the biotech industry. Translational research needs us to go back to basics & collaborate Interview multidisciplinary, multi-sector collaborations because they did not receive any money unless they showed true collaboration – we were funding the project rather than the individuals.
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