Partnering for Cures 2015 is to be held from November 01-03, 2015 at the Grand Hyatt, New York. As part of the event, Dr. V.A. Shiva Ayyadurai will be speaking on Redefining Discovery for the 21st Century, which is to be held on Monday, November 02, 2015 from 10:45 AM – 12:00 PM at The Empire Ballroom I, Grand Hyatt, New York. The event is being organized by Faster Cures, a center of the Milken Institute, Washington DC.

What’s required for the discovery enterprise to thrive in the 21st century? Team science and interdisciplinary work with engineers, data scientists, etc. are clearly the wave of the future; how do we fund and organize it effectively? Can we accelerate innovation through productive collisions with thinkers from other fields? What’s the right balance of intuition and serendipity with more goal-directed projects? And how can we create career pathways (inside and outside academia) to motivate young researchers to dedicate themselves to medical research at a time when federal grants for young investigators are increasingly scarce?

About Faster Cures:

FasterCures, a DC-based center of the Milken Institute, is driven by a singular goal – to save lives by speeding up and improving the medical research system.

Consider that there are more than 10,000 known diseases affecting our world today; we have viable treatments for only 500 of them. The system is complex, inefficient, and underfunded. That’s where FasterCures comes in. We focus on cutting through the roadblocks that slow medical progress by spurring cross-sector collaboration, cultivating a culture of innovation and engaging patients as partners.

To learn more about Faster Cures, please visit their website at www.fastercures.org