2020 Medicine looks forward to tomorrow’s healthcare

“2020 Medicine” is the theme of this year’s Public Open Evening at the NIHR Cambridge Biomedical Research Centre (CBRC) on 24 February, when we will look back at ten years of contributions to medical science and forward to how new discoveries might affect medical practice over the next ten years.

 

The CBRC is the organisation which manages most of the research activities on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus in which the University of Cambridge co-operates with Addenbrooke’s, the Rosie and Papworth hospitals to translate new scientific discoveries into new approaches to health care.

 

Despite the excitement which often accompanies new developments in medicine, research is a still a long, slow process in which the progress of a good idea from the laboratory to the bedside can take many years – even decades. The Open Evening will give insights into how this process works from research leaders who have developed important innovations in Cancer, Neuroscience, Diabetes, Women’s Health and Emergency Medicine. It will appeal to anyone with an interest in science and medicine, especially the young researchers of tomorrow who may help to bring today’s ideas to life-saving fruition.

 

This annual event will take place in the main lecture theatre of Cancer Research UK’s Cambridge Research Institute on the Cambridge Biomedical Campus, starting at 5.15pm. It is free and open to all, including teachers, school students and parents and there will be an opportunity to meet researchers and see what the future holds for the Cambridge Biomedical Campus and its research facilities.