Innovation Partner
Organon
Website: https://www.organon.com/
Organon (NYSE: OGN) is a global healthcare company formed through a spinoff from Merck, known as MSD outside of the United States and Canada, to focus on improving the health of women throughout their lives. Here for her health, the company has a portfolio of more than 60 medicines and products across a range of therapeutic areas. Led by the reproductive health portfolio coupled with an expanding biosimilars business and stable franchise of established medicines, Organon’s products produce strong cash flows that will support investments in future growth opportunities in women’s health, including business development. In addition, Organon is pursuing opportunities to collaborate with biopharmaceutical innovators looking to commercialize their products by leveraging its scale and presence in fast growing international markets. Organon has a global footprint with significant scale and geographic reach, world-class commercial capabilities, and approximately 9,000 employees with headquarters located in Jersey City, N.J.
Oncology Partner
GSK
Website: https://www.gsk.com/en-gb/
GSK is focused on maximising patient survival through transformational medicines. Our oncology pipeline is focused on immuno-oncology, cell therapy, tumour cell targeting therapies and synthetic lethality. Our goal is to achieve a sustainable flow of new treatments based on a diversified portfolio of investigational medicines.
Gynaecologic cancers are among the most common cancers affecting women. Nearly 1.4 million people were diagnosed with cervical, endometrial, ovarian, vaginal or vulvar cancer in 2020; however, awareness of these cancers and their symptoms remains low. At GSK, we are committed to supporting continued innovation in gynaecologic cancers, keeping the patient’s voice at the heart of our mission, and building a pipeline of novel programmes to meet their needs. For more information about our work in oncology, please visit: https://www.gsk.com/en-gb/
Knowledge Partner
McKinsey and Company
Website: https://www.mckinsey.com/
There was a time when economic growth, sustainability, and inclusion were seen as trade-offs, but leaders today need to achieve all three. This new paradigm of growth will be more sustainable, driving innovation while reducing environmental impact. It will also be more inclusive, creating access to opportunities for people worldwide.
This is not an easy task, but McKinsey & Company's ambition is to help organizations and their leaders make it a reality. They combine bold strategies and transformative technologies to help organizations innovate more sustainably, achieve lasting gains in performance, and build workforces that will thrive for this generation and the next.
Platinum Partner
Myovant
Website: https://www.myovant.com/
We aspire to redefine care for women and for men through purpose-driven science, empowering medicines, and transformative advocacy.
Our purpose is resolute and fueled by the opportunity to improve the lives of millions of women and men, many impacted by diseases during their most productive years of life. Despite the significant burden of common diseases like uterine fibroids, endometriosis, and prostate cancer, many women and men do not have the options they deserve and need.
Deloitte
Website: www.deloitte.com
Where impact happens
Throughout the health ecosystem, you’ll find courageous and inspiring people who are committed to driving transformation, advancing health equity, and leading a well-being revolution. Where you find innovators committed to sustainable progress, you’ll find Deloitte’s Life Sciences & Health Care practice. Our leaders work side by side to orchestrate and deliver on the business of science and health. We bring trusted, flexible approaches that can foster innovation, harness new technologies, and formulate consumer-driven strategies to engineer a digitally enabled, equitable future of health—starting today.
Gold Partners
Watkins-Conti Products Inc
Website: http://www.watkinscontiproducts.com/
Watkins Conti Products, Inc. is a Female founded and owned, Platform Women’s Healthcare company and product design firm that is focused on the creation of innovative and affordable consumer medical devices.
The company’s flagship product is a non-invasive solution for stress incontinence in women. The problem impacts and estimated ONE in THREE women globally. The disruptive, patented product offers multiple recurring revenue streams. Watkins-Conti has additional products in the pipeline to improve the consumer experience, specifically for health related issues that women face that are often seen as shameful or taboo.
Celanese
Website: https://bit.ly/3a0JriQ
Celanese works closely with you as a strategic partner to create innovative controlled-release dosage forms for biologics and small molecules to meet the goals of patient-centric therapies, improved medicine and better healthcare economics. Our VitalDose® EVA copolymer drug-delivery platform is an enabling technology for drug-eluting implants, inserts and transdermal films. The platform is flexible and customizable to address a variety of formulation challenges when it comes to tailoring the release rate of your drug.
- Compatible with biologics and small molecules
- Provides reliable local or systemic drug administration
- High drug loading capacity (≤ 75%)
- Engineered long-acting dosage profiles (zero-order or nonlinear profiles)
- Ease of formulation and configurable into a variety of geometries
- An established regulatory path with long clinical use history
From FEASIBILITY to DEVELOPMENT to COMMERCIALIZATION
Our scientists and engineers are there from concept to commercialization, providing development services, material supply aligned with GMP principles and regulatory support.
PRIA Healthcare
Website: https://priahealthcare.com/who-we-help/medical-device-manufacturers/
PRIA Healthcare provides patient solutions for medical device reimbursement. We believe patients deserve to have access to—and insurance coverage for—the most innovative and scientifically proven medical devices, treatments, and procedures so they can receive the care their health and well-being depend on.
At the Reproductive Health Innovation Summit, industry veterans and experts from PRIA Healthcare will discuss the importance of early consultative involvement for innovative treatments and navigation in the strategic reimbursement landscape, as well as market and patient access solutions. Join us for an enlightening discussion around how to drive maximum adoption of your therapy from conception to patient access to ensure progressive treatments in the reproductive health arena are accelerated to their full potential.
UPMC
Website: http://www.upmc.com/
A $26 billion health care provider and insurer, Pittsburgh-based UPMC is inventing new models of patient-centered, cost-effective, accountable care. The largest nongovernmental employer in Pennsylvania, UPMC integrates 95,000 employees, 40 hospitals, 800 doctors’ offices and outpatient sites, and a nearly 4.5 million-member Insurance Services Division, the largest medical insurer in western Pennsylvania. In the most recent fiscal year, UPMC contributed $1.5 billion in benefits to its communities, including more care to the region’s most vulnerable citizens than any other health care institution, and paid more than $900 million in federal, state, and local taxes. Working in close collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences, UPMC shares its clinical, managerial, and technological skills worldwide through its innovation and commercialization arm, UPMC Enterprises, and through UPMC International. U.S. News consistently ranks UPMC Presbyterian Shadyside among the nation’s best hospitals in many specialties and ranks UPMC Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh on its Honor Roll of America’s Best Children’s Hospitals. For more information, go to UPMC.com.
PPD
Website: https://www.ppd.com/
PPD is a leading global contract research organization focused on delivering life-changing therapies. PPD offers proven solutions that incorporate diversity in every stage of the clinical trial ranging from early phase engagement with lactation studies to Phase II-III to pharmacovigilance to peri- and post-approval services and vaccines.
PPD has a deep understanding of the regulatory drivers, treatment landscape, unmet needs and recruitment and retention strategies across the spectrum of women’s health indications. We are committed to deploying solutions needed to mitigate potential challenges in women’s health studies, including competition for women in clinical trials and site resources, and the reluctance of women to participate in these studies. We leverage our broad-based site network, targeted training and communication strategies – all with women in mind.
Clinical Trial Site and Patient Centric Solutions | PPD
EDS Global Capabilities | PPD Inc
Labcorp
Website: www.Labcorp.com
Labcorp is a leading global life sciences company that provides vital information to help doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical companies, researchers and patients make clear and confident decisions. Through our unparalleled diagnostics and drug development capabilities, we provide insights and accelerate innovations to improve health and improve lives. Learn more about Labcorp at www.Labcorp.com or follow us on LinkedIn and Twitter @Labcorp.
PFG MedComm
Website: www.pfgmed.com/
Accomplishing access through value communication. That’s what we do.
PFG MedComm is a woman and minority-owned strategic market access agency that specializes in leveraging value communication to achieve access goals. We’ve transformed the traditional agency model with our unique 360° approach that considers the entire development lifecycle when planning for market access. Our proprietary process involves anticipating challenges, adapting strategic plans, and accomplishing access through seamless execution and field engagement.
As a full-service strategic market access agency, our capabilities run the gamut from the earliest stages of clinical planning and strategy through launch, training and beyond. We are experts in developing end-to-end marketing strategies and tactics across all healthcare stakeholders, (ranging from various types of payers and access decisionmakers to healthcare professionals and patients), with experience in US and international markets across EMEA, LATAM and APAC.
Our team has a broad range of experience to support medical, payer and HEOR communication strategy across pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, and digital therapeutic companies. Over the past ten years, the PFG MedComm team has supported over 60+ brands (including 33 launches both US and global), across 50+ indications within 20+ therapeutic categories.
We take those complicated ideas and make them understandable to all stakeholders to ensure a company's drugs, therapies, devices, and diagnostics reach those who need them with minimal hurdles.
Event Partners
Bowdoin Group
Website: www.bowdoingroup.com/
The Bowdoin Group specializes in executive search, focused on placing change-makers and strategic leaders across the innovation economy while supporting additional growth through recruitment process outsourcing (RPO).
Our network covers the Health and Technology industries, placing disruptive leaders who are redefining the landscape of how we live and work.
Within the Health and Technology landscape, the firm’s expertise in Digital Health, Software and Technology, FinTech, Biotech, and Diagnostics inform the service we provide for our clients and partners leading these industries. We continue to build lasting partnerships across the financial sector, building out portfolio companies for top-tier Private Equity and Venture Capital firms.
Restful Pump
Website: https://restfulpump.com/
Founded by a mom for moms, Restful Pump® has engineered the world’s first to market premier forward leaning lactation systems for at home, at work or on the go.
Postpartum women are fatigued, sleep deprived, managing breast pumping positioning, milk supply issues, pain and/or breast tissue complications, and some addressing return to employment. Using a breast pump every 4-5 hours, 24 hours a day doesn’t have to be such an uncomfortable chore.
Now women can rest, sleep, or multitask in a supportive hands-free position, using any type of breast pump. While providing comfort, convenience, productivity, possibly reducing breast tissue complications and increasing pumping durations, our devices may even negate the need for baby formula.
Restful Pump® is solving a global problem with novel Class 1 medical devices. With an MD’s prescription, and possible US reimbursement via health insurance, Restful Pump® products aim to be as medically necessary as a breast pump in the postpartum period.
With over 12 patents filed for over 10 products in 30 countries there is massive potential for safe, high-yield investments with durable medical equipment annual recurring revenue.
Pump While You Sleep®
Sheppard Mullin
Website: www.sheppardmullin.com/whlc
Sheppard Mullin’s Women in Healthcare Leadership Collaborative (WHLC) is an exclusive national leadership initiative committed to supporting women professionals in or advancing into leadership positions within the healthcare and life sciences industries.
WHLC was established in response to significant and persistent systemic gender disparities in institutional leadership positions in the healthcare and life sciences industries. Despite constituting a vast majority of the workforce, women continue to hold a small minority of these positions.
Drawing upon Sheppard Mullin’s nationally-ranked healthcare practice, and the law firm’s leadership in diversity and inclusion, WHLC aims to reverse this trend by providing women professionals access to critical resources and networking opportunities designed to support them as they progress in their careers. WHLC hosts regular roundtable discussions focusing on complex legal and business issues and cutting-edge innovation and developments in the healthcare industry, as well as professional skills training and development, and quality networking events connecting these professionals to other leaders in the industry. Sheppard Mullin hosts WHLC events virtually and in various locations across the country.
Event & Media Partner
Boston Globe Media
Website: https://www.bostonglobe.com/
Boston Globe Media is a multimedia organization that provides news, entertainment, and commentary across multiple brands and platforms.
Through in-depth reporting and coverage coming straight from the world’s hub of innovation in health, science, and medicine, Boston Globe Media gives brands the opportunity to create meaningful content, align themselves with award-winning journalism, and reach a robust audience of readers keenly focused on advancements in healthcare and beyond. With powerful storytelling, in-depth filmmaking, great advice, interactive local and global events, immersive branded content, and the largest social media following in New England, we go beyond advertising and help brands forge a meaningful connection with the audiences they want to reach. If you want to educate, entertain, or simply introduce your brand to the world, then allow us to reintroduce ourselves. We are Boston Globe Media.
Read, listen and discover more at Globe.com, Boston.com, STAT, Globe Events, and our in-house creative agency, Studio/B.
Media Partners
Women of Wearables
Website: https://www.womenofwearables.com/
Please visit our website for more information.Femtech World
Website: https://www.femtechworld.co.uk/
We are a global media platform, run by award winning journalists, on a mission to contribute to closing the gender health gap by providing valuable news, insights and analysis on the exciting femtech sector. Produced by specialist health media group Aspect Publishing, Femtech World aims to give the femtech community a voice, breaking down professional borders, spreading opportunities and destigmatising women’s health issues.
Springboard
Website: https://sb.co
Springboard’s mission is to accelerate the growth of entrepreneurial companies led by women through access to essential resources and a global community of experts. We are a leading network of influencers, investors and innovators dedicated to building high-growth companies led by women who are transforming industries in technology and life science.
World Pharma Today
Website: https://www.worldpharmatoday.com/
Please visit our website for more information.Pharma News HQ
Website: http://pharmanewshq.com/
Pharma News HQ, the journal dedicated to the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical contract services. With regular sections on contract manufacturing, contract research, contract packaging, formulation/development services, contract analytical testing, APIs, stability testing, clinical research and other areas, we bring the most complete coverage of trends and issues in the industry. Pharmanewshq.com is the only website focusing specifically on issues relevant to pharmaceutical professionals working with technology, be it development, engineering, IT or production
MassMEDIC
Website: http://www.massmedic.com/
Founded in 1996, the Massachusetts Medical Device Industry Council (MassMEDIC) is the largest regional medtech association in the United States, with over 300 members representing manufacturers, product developers, suppliers, research institutions and academic health centers.
For more than a quarter of a century, MassMEDIC has been the voice of the groundbreaking medical technology industry in New England, advocating for sound public policy that supports innovation and fostering a community built on a shared purpose.
As a MassMEDIC member, you are part of a community of innovators that believe in collaboration and collective success. Our network and resources help you navigate today’s evolving healthcare ecosystem and strengthen your goals through connection, education, awareness, and advocacy.
