Bio2040 - Bottlenecks & Future of Science, Healthcare & Biotech

05 How Citizen Science Can Transform Drug Discovery with Ernst Hafen

Flavio Rump & Luca Naef Episode 5
In this episode, Prof. Ernst Hafen from ETH Zurich tells us how citizens can play a very important role in biomedical research and drug discovery. Recruiting the right patients for a study is a big challenge for biotech and pharma companies. He presents us his radical initiative midata.coop, which allows patients to store their health data in a secure way and allows them to participate in clinical studies. Part 1 of a very interesting interview.

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