Innovation and Investment

The JPG has the objective to partner with Government to increase awareness of the UK Life Sciences offer in Japan. Specifically, we collaborate on a roundtable for our members’ global leaders of R&D, with previous events being held in February 2021 and March 2023.

The next global roundtable will take place on 27 January 2025, and we are delighted that Lord Ara Darzi has agreed to chair the meeting, with Lord Patrick Vallance in attendance. We have worked with the Department for Business and Trade to create an agenda featuring world-leading programmes in AI and the significant potential to leverage UK health data to advance innovation. We also are shining a spotlight on important work that is underway to reinvigorate the commercial clinical trials landscape in the UK, and for the first time we are providing a perspective from inside a global board room on the UK as a competitive location for investment. We hope this will provide useful insight for our colleagues in Government.