A look back at some of the key messages delivered by our experts at the #biopharma seminar held at the 🇧🇪 Belgian Embassy in Warsaw on 17/10:
🇪🇺 Magdalena Kulczycka,Ph.D., President of BioForum : « I was more than happy to attend this event that is connecting biotech/pharma from #Belgium and #Poland. We strongly need international cooperation in order to strengthen the potential of European manufacturing capacity on a global scale. It was very important to bring together Belgian and Polish companies during this event, in order to get to know each other, to highlight what are the strengths of each ecosystem and what Polish companies can discover if they would like to join the Belgian biopharma community”
🔬Johan Lecocq, International relations manager at MEDVIA : “Belgium has a strong history in building ecosystems. Thanks to these ecosystems, young companies, very innovative companies, can receive a lot of support to pass their journey from idea to the final market. We help companies to tackle all kinds of challenges, as there can be funding, legal issues, difficulties in finding the right test facilities, connections to hospitals or the right business model”
🎓Eric Wyart, Operational Director at Réseau LiEU : “ At Réseau Lieu, we organise match-making events, workshops and we also facilitate connections between researchers and companies. During the workshops, we will start from the problem a company can have, find a solution with the researcher, and then have a plan to develop innovative projects. With this, we can maturate the technology we have at the university and foster collaborations that will help transfer, further on, the research results from the university to the company”
🤝Christophe Coppens, Advisor at the Cluster lifetech.brussels : “If I have to share something with stakeholders in the biopharma sector in Poland : go out of your comfort zone, go to as many events as you can to try to meet people, to meet different profiles, because it will give you information about what you can do. Use existing tools in your region, events, clusters, trade associations, and try to network as much as possible!”
Would you like to join the Belgian biopharma community? Don’t hesitate to contact us and we will redirect you to the appropriate interlocutor! 🇧🇪🇵🇱
Rik Van Droogenbroeck Aris Georgiopoulos Kris Put Nicolas Nève Katarzyna Rumik-Zalewska
