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Patient Innovation

Patient Innovation is a non-profit, international and multi-lingual online platform and social network aimed at facilitating the sharing of solutions developed by patients or caregivers.

Patient Innovation was developed by a team of researchers who found that patients of chronic diseases and their non-professional caregivers have developed a significant number of non-drug medical innovations that have proven valuable in dealing with their diseases. In some cases, patients even saved their own lives. These innovations usually occur behind closed doors and might never be knowledge or used by anyone else. However, if successful solutions and knowledge were shared with other patients with similar need, it could improve the lives of many others. To promote collaboration and foster the diffusion and use of those innovations, Patient Innovation was launched in 2014.

Patient Innovation is headquartered at the Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics in Lisbon, Portugal The Advisory Board of Patient Innovation includes reputable scientists such Prof. Aaron Ciechanover, Professor, Technion-Israel Institute of Technology (Nobel Laureate in Chemistry 2004); Prof. Eric von Hippel, Professor, MIT Sloan School of Management; Prof. Katherine Strandburg, Professor, New York University School of Law; Prof. Lee Fleming, University of California, Berkeley; Sir Richard Roberts, Chief Scientist, New England Biolabs (Nobel Laureate in Physiology or Medicine 1993) and Prof. Robert Langer, Professor, MIT

The Patient Innovation team includes - Pedro Oliveira, Project Leader and Principal Investigator (Professor, Católica-Lisbon School of Business and Economics) - Helena Canhão, Project Leader and Chief Medical Officer (Professor, Lisbon School of Medicine / Rheumatologist, Santa Maria Hospital) - Leid Zejnilovic, Research and Operations Officer - Pierre Gein, Fundraising and Finance Office

The potential of this project can be seen through the endorsement statements of its supporters

“This is an outstanding use of social medical that should help many disadvantaged people who desperately seek ways to improve their quality of life” Nobel Laureate in Medicine and Physiology and member of the Advisory Board Sir Richard Roberts

“a project with potentially very great social value”. Professor at MIT Sloan School of Management and member of the Advisory Board Eric von Hippel

The platform has been endorsed by prestigious institutions and reputable individuals, including several Nobel Laureates, distinguished scholars and patients’ representatives. Patient Innovation already signed collaborations protocols with more than 20 patient associations in the USA, UK, Australia, France, Malasya, Portugal, Serbia, Croatia, Brazil, Bosnia, among other, who will helps us to reach out to their members (patients and caregivers).