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In the summer of 2019 the Center for Medicine-Ethics-Law Helvetiae and the PhD program Biomedical Ethics and Law / Law Track of the University of Zurich ran the project “Fresh Ideas for Cancer Care” in cooperation with All.Can Switzerland, a global policy initiative aiming to improve efficiency in cancer care.
Different actors in the field of cancer care experience a variety of issues. With the common goal to improve efficiency, stakeholders and interested PhD students joined forces to develop solutions to relevant problems. Each stakeholder participating in this project highlighted issues that had arisen in practice and presented a specific set of questions.
The project “Fresh Ideas for Cancer Care” offered PhD students from different disciplines and backgrounds (e.g. medicine, science, law and economics) the opportunity to work on one of the presented practical cases and to connect with leading stakeholders in the field. The project’s aim was to develop new approaches in cancer research, in the development of medicine and therapies as well as financing, to identify and remedy inefficiencies and to search for alternative solutions.
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Participating stakeholders |
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| Dr. sc. nat. ETH Daniel Vonder Mühll and group, ETH Zurich, Personalized Health and Related Technologies |
| Dr. Heiner Sandmeier, Deputy Secretary General at Interpharma |
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Prof. em. Dr. med. Urs Martin Lütolf, Cantonal Ethics Committee Zurich |
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Dr. Martin Inderbitzin, Patient representative, Founder of MySurvivalStory.org |
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Stakeholder Research Questions |
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Topic 1: Medical Data Ownership and Data Protection |
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Topic 2: Reimbursement of Advanced Therapy Medicinal Products (ATMP) in Switzerland based on the example of CAR-T cell therapies |
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Topic 3: Therapeutic Trials and Research supervised by Prof. em. Dr. med. Urs Martin Lütolf |
| Topic 4: Innovative Cancer Support Programs for Teenagers and Young Adults supervised by Dr. Martin Inderbitzin |
The project started with a kick-off event on March 12, 2019 at the University of Zurich, where the stakeholders presented their problems to the PhD students.
After the kick-off event, the PhD students, grouped into small teams, worked on the solution approaches, and had the opportunity to communicate further with the stakeholders.
In an afternoon workshop on September 11, 2019, the PhD students presented the current status of their project to each other and the stakeholders.
On November 28, 2019, the groups of the project "Fresh Ideas for Cancer Care" presented their projects to various stakeholders and interested people.
Below you find the posters and presentations of the group projects and some impressions of the event.
