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Penilla Gunther: EU Cancer Mission, First project cluster policy webinar – Understanding Cancer this 16th April

Photo taken from ECHoS/LinkedIn

Apr 5, 2024, 14:58

Penilla Gunther: EU Cancer Mission, First project cluster policy webinar – Understanding Cancer this 16th April

Penilla Gunther shared a post by Establishing of Cancer Mission Hubs (ECHoS) on LinkedIn, adding:

“Understanding – one of four goals in Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan!”

Quoting ECHoS’s post:

“Save the date! EU Cancer Mission: First project cluster policy webinar – Understanding Cancer this 16th April!

The first Mission on Cancer project cluster policy webinar will explore how to work together to make better use of project results in the area of understanding cancer.

This EUHPP Live Webinar will bring together stakeholder and citizen perspectives on research and innovation, providing early exposure to the cluster projects launched under the Cancer Mission.”

Additional information.
Source: Penilla Gunther/LinkedIn and ECHoS/LinkedIn

Penilla Gunther is a member of the EU Cancer Mission and a Former Member of Swedish Parliament. She is an experienced policy maker as former Member of the Swedish Parliament, the Nordic Council, and chair of the Welfare Committee, and also from local and regional councils. She is the founder of FOKUS Patient, a digital and physical meeting place for life science & healthcare with a patient perspective, President of the European Patient Safety Foundation and appointed by the European Commission as an Expert in the Cancer Mission Board.

Penilla is a life-long patient as being heart transplanted 15 years ago and cancer survivor twice. Penilla Gunther co-chaired the European Cancer Organization’s SmartCARE steering committee, a landmark initiative of Europe’s Beating Cancer Plan under the EU4Health Programme, digital tool to reduce the communication gap between survivors and health and social-care providers.