“It is with great pleasure that I join the 4th edition of the Patient Innovation Awards, this time being held in Paris at the EIT Health Summit, the main conference of EIT Health, one of the largest healthcare initiatives worldwide. In Paris we will honor innovative and inspiring patients and informal caregivers from China, India, the USA, and Denmark, who were selected by a group of distinguished scientists and scholars from the Advisory Board of Patient Innovation, which includes 2 Nobel Laureates, at a recent meeting held at MIT in Boston. All this is evidence of the truly global nature of this non-profit and global organization, which was born in Portugal and is a spin-off of a collaborative research project funded by the Portuguese Science and Technology Foundation through the Carnegie Mellon-Portugal and MIT-Portugal Programs and also by the Gulbenkian Foundation, among others.”
Manuel Heitor
Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal