Praespero Summit
PRAESPERO SUMMIT
Igniting Breakthroughs.
POWER TOGETHER
Why collaboration matters.
Biomedical research is driven by competition, not collaboration. We want to change that, one Praespero Summit at a time.
As our population ages and diagnoses grow, collaboration is urgently needed for progress towards safer, more effective treatments and cures. Better yet…
We need to understand root causes so we can prevent autoimmune diseases from happening in the first place.
"I'm meeting people who are hardcore immunologists, practicing rheumatologists, people who are researchers and PhDs, like me, an Engineer. I think that this is the creative milieu - you're sharing your results not to beat your chest, but to learn from each other."
- Jeffrey Hubbell, Vice President of NYU's Science and Tech Initiative
“It’s a safe space to share your unpublished data. You set clear rules and boundaries and define your objectives in advance of any collaborative initiative that might arise from panels and group discussions.”
- Rana Herro out of Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
“With the small group networkings that we get to develop, I’ve had interactions with people that have led to great collaboration opportunities. Even though they are potentially relatively small movements forward, it’s great knowing that this is expanding my network such that I have people I can go to get expertise when I have a particular question that allows me to move in different directions and expand my expertise beyond what I already had.”
- Lisa Osborne of University of British Columbia Microbiology & Immunology
ENVIRONMENT FOR CHANGE
How Praespero Summits facilitate cross-disciplinary research and collaboration.
Praespero Summits encourage collaboration by:
Setting the tone
Creating a dome of safety
Being intentional about intimate size and connection time
Removing echo-chambers
Promoting debate and feedback
Bringing the right mix of experience
Creating a family feel
"It's those side-discussions where some of the magic happens... This conference has that critical mass of people, small enough to share ideas, but not so large that it becomes difficult to get to know people."
- Prof Daniel Gray out of The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research in Melbourne, Australia
“It’s not the same as other conferences. Often you plug into the same networks, but this conference introduces a higher chance of hearing ideas and findings you haven’t heard before. It uniquely expands the lens of inquiry, not so far that the subject matters become too broad for practical application, but just broad enough to bring in new information that participants wouldn’t otherwise encounter.”
- Liam O’Neil, Assistant Professor of internal Medicine at Max Rady College of Medicine
“Science is not done by robots in a vacuum, it's done by individuals of all levels that interact with one another. The summit is a very supportive environment attended by senior and junior scientists. There are people I didn't know before I started coming, who I know well today, and that kind of networking is invaluable.”
- Dean Tantin, Associate Professor in the Department of Pathology (University of Utah)
Dubbed a “catalyst” for progress, the Summit unites global immunology experts through presentations, panels, and workshops that spark debates and dismantle barriers to cross-disciplinary research.
Every year, Praespero-funded scientists edge closer to breakthroughs -proving collaboration isn’t just encouraged, it’s engineered.
