Nobel Week Dialogue
Please note this programme is subject to change.
Morning session
10:00 - 12:00
Welcome remarks
The economy of health
Strategies for delivering, and affording, health for all.
Affording health
Sally Davies, John-Arne Røttingen, Jean Tirole
Moderator: Mariam Claeson
From basic research to innovative therapy
Case studies in discovery: the impact of CRISPR, the revelation of the incretin system and the new and surprising roles of enzymes in drug discovery.
Can we genetically encode (nearly) all chemistry?
Frances Arnold
Caroline Lööf, Jesper Medin and Alida Ramdén (Chalmers University of Technology)
CRISPR and the impact of gene editing
Emmanuelle Charpentier
Safiya Hassan, Niclas Johansson and Zahra Yousefi (University of Gothenburg)
Obesity and metabolic diseases
Jens Juul Holst and Jan Nilsson
Moderator: Juleen Zierath
The future of health research
Exploring the right balance between discovery research, understanding how life works, and applications to medicine.
The usefulness of useless knowledge?
Frances Arnold, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Paul Nurse and John-Arne Røttingen
Moderator: Adam Smith
Lunch
Afternoon session
13:20 - 15:30
AI’s impact on medicine
Beyond its role in diagnostics, how might AI change healthcare, by for instance improving the discovery and design of new treatments or transforming care systems?
The promise of AI
Alison Holmes, Maja Fjaestad and Paul Nurse
Moderator: Owen Gaffney
Mental health
Discovering inroads into the treatment of dementia, and the need to focus on adolescent health.
Adolescent health and wellbeing
Anja Huizink
Moderator: Mariam Claeson
The challenge of dementia
Henrik Zetterberg and Barbara Bendlin
Moderator: Juleen Zierath
The challenge of antimicrobial resistance
80 years on from penicillin’s Nobel Prize, how should society respond to the growing dangers from resistance to antibiotics?
AMR: A crisis foreseen
Alison Holmes
Strategies for tackling antimicrobial resistance
Sally Davies, Alison Holmes and Jean Tirole
Moderator: Adam Smith
From bench to bedside
How can we do better in integrating transformative treatments into practice across global healthcare?
Javid Abdelmoneim
Interviewer: Owen Gaffney
Putting science into practice
Javid Abdelmoneim, Sally Davies, Maja Fjaestad and Jan Nilsson
Moderator: Owen Gaffney
Final reflections
Frances Arnold, Emmanuelle Charpentier, Paul Nurse and Jean Tirole
Moderator: Adam Smith
