2021 Sponsors


Platinum Sponsors


Bayer AG


Bayer is a Life Science company with a more than 150-year history and core competencies in the areas of health care and agriculture. With our innovative products, we are contributing to finding solutions to some of the major challenges of our time. A growing and aging world population requires an adequate supply of food and improved medical care. With our innovative products, we are contributing to finding solutions to some of the major challenges of our time. With life expectancy continuing to rise, we improve quality of life for a growing population by focusing our research and development activities on preventing, alleviating and treating diseases. We are also making an important contribution to providing a reliable supply of high-quality food, feed and plant-based raw materials.


Edwards Lifesciences


Edwards Lifesciences is the global leader of patient-focused innovations for structural heart disease and critical care monitoring. We are driven by a passion for patients, dedicated to improving and enhancing lives through partnerships with clinicians and stakeholders across the global healthcare landscape. For more information, visit Edwards.com and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Twitter and YouTube.




Takeda UK, Limited

Takeda Pharmaceutical Company Limited is headquartered in Japan and is a global, values-based, R&D-driven biopharmaceutical leader committed to translating science into highly-innovative medicines. Takeda focuses its R&D efforts on four therapeutic areas: Oncology, Gastroenterology (GI), Neuroscience and Rare Diseases. We also make targeted R&D investments in Plasma-Derived Therapies and Vaccines. We are focusing on developing highly innovative medicines that contribute to making a difference in people's lives by advancing the frontier of new treatment options and leveraging our enhanced collaborative R&D engine and capabilities to create a robust pipeline. Our employees are committed to improving quality of life for patients and to working with our partners in health care in approximately 80 countries and regions.

Additional information about Takeda UK Ltd. is available through its corporate website, www.takeda.com/en-gb 


Diamond Sponsors


All Wales Therapeutics and Toxicology Centre

The All Wales Therapeutics and Toxicology Centre (AWTTC) is a leading authority in therapeutics and toxicology, providing a portfolio of prescribing services to NHS Wales. AWTTC’s multidisciplinary team aims to create a healthier; better informed Wales by optimising the use of medicines and ensuring that people living in Wales have timely and equitable access to clinically effective and cost-effective new medicines. 



Healthcare Improvement Scotland

Healthcare Improvement Scotland - Supporting better quality health and social care for everyone in Scotland

Working with people at every level of Scotland’s health and social care system, we make sure improvements in care are informed by the experiences of people who deliver and people who use health and care services.

More info: www.healthcareimprovementscotland.org



Health Technology Wales

Health Technology Wales (HTW) is a national Health Technology Assessment (HTA) organisation. Established in 2017, HTW delivers a strategic approach to the identification, appraisal and adoption of non-medicine health technologies into health and social care settings. Its remit covers any health technology that isn’t a medicine, including (but not limited to); medical devices, surgical procedures, psychological therapies, tele-monitoring and rehabilitation. HTW is funded by Welsh Government and hosted within NHS Wales, but independent of both.



Janssen

At Janssen, we’re creating a future where disease is a thing of the past. We’re the Pharmaceutical Companies of Johnson & Johnson, working tirelessly to make that future a reality for patients everywhere by fighting sickness with science, improving access with ingenuity, and healing hopelessness with heart. We focus on areas of medicine where we can make the biggest difference: Cardiovascular & Metabolism, Immunology, Infectious Diseases & Vaccines, Neuroscience, Oncology, and Pulmonary Hypertension.


Merck & Co Ltd


We aspire to be the premier research-intensive biopharmaceutical company in the world.

For 130 years, Merck (known as MSD outside of the U.S. and Canada) has been inventing for life, bringing forward medicines and vaccines for many of the world’s most challenging diseases in pursuit of our mission to save and improve lives.

We demonstrate our commitment to patients and population health by increasing access to health care through far-reaching policies, programs and partnerships.



National Institute for Health & Care Excellence


NICE’s core purpose is to improve health and wellbeing by putting science and evidence at the heart of health and care decision making.

We do this by:

o   Providing independent assessment of a wide range of complex evidence to help commissioners, front line practitioners, patients, carers, and citizens to take better informed decisions.

o   Working with those at the forefront of scientific advances and using our analytical skills, knowledge and expertise to identify, assess and develop timely recommendations on innovations.

o   Working with partners across the health and social care system to drive the uptake of effective and cost-effective new treatments and interventions.


Novartis


Novartis is reimagining medicine to improve and extend people's lives. In ophthalmology, we develop and deliver life-changing medicines and therapies for diseases and conditions from front to back of the eye, enabled by data transformative technologies. Our ophthalmic solutions reach more than 150M people per year, from premature infants to the elderly.


Pfizer UK


Pfizer is one of the world's premier innovative biopharmaceutical companies, discovering, developing, and providing over 170 different medicine and vaccine healthcare products to help improve the lives of millions of people in the UK and around the world every year. Pfizer’s purpose (breakthroughs that change patient’s lives) is grounded on the belief that all people deserve to live healthy lives, driving a desire to provide medicines that are safe and effective. Pfizer focuses on six therapy areas: anti-infectives, inflammation and immunology, internal medicine, oncology, rare disease and vaccines. 


Royal Australasian College of Surgeons


Based in Australia, ASERNIPS are global leaders in health technology assessment. Our team of experts assess technologies relevant to surgeons and the surgical environment; and, we are uniquely positioned within a Medical College providing us access to clinicians. We will work closely with you to identify your specific requirements and provide individualized and highly insightful safety and effectiveness assessments, statistical analyses and health economic reviews.


Gold Sponsors


Bayer AG


Bayer is a Life Science company with a more than 150-year history and core competencies in the areas of health care and agriculture. With our innovative products, we are contributing to finding solutions to some of the major challenges of our time. A growing and aging world population requires an adequate supply of food and improved medical care. With our innovative products, we are contributing to finding solutions to some of the major challenges of our time. 


Institute of Health and Wellbeing, University of Glasgow


Health Economics and Health Technology Assessment (HEHTA) is a research group at the University of Glasgow dedicated to research that impacts clinical practice, population health and health policies, including economic evaluation alongside trials, decision analytic modelling, evidence synthesis, population health economics, precision medicine, global HTA, medical statistics and qualitative evaluations.


Sanofi


Sanofi is dedicated to supporting people through their health challenges. We are a global biopharmaceutical company focused on human health. We prevent illness with vaccines, provide innovative treatments to fight pain and ease suffering. We stand by the few who suffer from rare diseases and the millions with long-term chronic conditions.

With more than 100,000 people in 100 countries, Sanofi is transforming scientific innovation into healthcare solutions around the globe. Sanofi, Empowering Life


Silver Sponsors


The Association of the  British  Pharmaceutical Industry


The Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry (ABPI) exists to make the UK the best place in the world to research, develop and use new medicines and vaccines.  We represent companies of all sizes who invest in discovering the medicines of the future.  Our members supply cutting edge treatments that improve and save the lives of millions of people. We work in partnership with Governments and the NHS so patients can get new treatments faster and the NHS can plan how much it spends on medicines.



Intuitive


Intuitive, headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, is a global technology leader in minimally invasive care and a pioneer of robotic-assisted surgery. As part of our mission, we believe that minimally invasive care is life-enhancing care. Through ingenuity and intelligent technology, we expand the potential of physicians to heal without constraints.

Intuitive brings more than two decades of leadership in robotic-assisted surgical technology and solutions to its offerings and develops, manufactures, and markets the da Vinci surgical system and the Ion endoluminal system.


Bronze Sponsors


Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press is a not-for-profit publisher and is part of the University of Cambridge. We are proud to publish International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care, the official journal of HTAi. Find out more about IJTAHC at www.cambridge.org/THC


London School of Economics


The Department of Health Policy at The London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) trains and inspires future leaders in health. Study around full-time work with our range of executive MSc programmes in health policy and economics, specifically designed for professionals in health. For more information, visit our website.