Stuart Faulkner

Dr Stuart Faulkner, Programme and Operations manager, Nuffield Department of Primary Health Sciences, Oxford University, UK

Stuart’s 17-year career in translational biomedical science has spanned a PhD in developmental neuroscience, translational models of neonatal brain injury, early phase clinical trials and developing a medical device. A four-year move to Canada saw further research into stem cell treatments for cerebral palsy, coordinating a number of large observational studies in osteoarthritis, and helping to develop new models of healthcare research. Stuart has extensive experience of large multi-stakeholder and public-private partnership programmes of work covering translational biomedical and interdisciplinary research. It includes co-leading a number of work streams and work packages in two recent IMI projects. ADAPTSMART explored and developed new conceptual frameworks to expedite patient access to transformative medicines at the European level. Further substantial work continues in a new IMI project PARADIGM, which aims to enhance sustainable patient engagement across the life cycle of medicine development, which commenced in early 2018.

In addition Stuart has experience of co-leading a variety of consultancy and policy projects across new models of medical innovation, regulation and ethics, under the umbrella of CASMI (Centre for the Advancement of Sustainable Medical Innovation).