Goodbye IMI, Hello IHI: New EU Partnership Prepares To Invite Research Proposals

Broadened Membership Includes Medtech & Digital Health

The new iteration of the EU’s successful public-private R&D partnership will seek to integrate pharmaceutical research with medical technology and digital health platforms to produce innovative cross-sectoral projects in areas such as drug/device combinations and AI-based diagnostics.

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The use of AI in pharmaceutical research is on the rise. • Source: Alamy

The EU’s new public-private partnership, the Innovative Health Initiative (IHI), a more broad-based and cross-sectoral successor to the long-running Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), says it expects to launch its first call for research proposals during the first half of 2022.

While the IMI brought together the European Commission and the European pharmaceutical industry federation EFPIA, the IHI is a new...

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