At this full-day event, the Industry Forum will come together to talk about the current challenges faced by Industry, academia and people with lived experience, with solution-focused discussions.
Spotlight talks will showcase the research from two of the MHP Hubs:
Talks will lead into multi-disciplinary conversations to identify opportunities for collaboration. The aim will be to initiate projects and find tangible outcomes that will create a step-change in the treatment of severe mental illness.
Why do we need the Industry Forum?
The relationship between Industry, academic research and people with lived experience of SMI is ready for a new chapter. Perhaps there has been a sense that people with lived experience had little appetite for working with industry and vice versa.
About the Industry Alliance
The purpose of the Industry Alliance is to facilitate trusted and impactful collaboration to accelerate research into severe mental illness (including schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and major depression). It aims to improve the diagnosis and treatment of those living with these conditions, by bringing together academics, industry professionals and people with lived experience of severe mental illness.
The MHP Industry Alliance is a partnership between:
- UKRI Mental Health Platform
- DATAMIND (The HDR UK Hub for Mental Health)
- Medicines Discovery Catapult
Find out more about the Alliance and to sign up click here
