CanFaster

The Translational Cancer Faster Forward doctoral/postdoctoral programmes (2018-2025).

The CanFaster programme is supported by the European Union’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie COFUND programme (Horizon 2020 framework) based on the "Mobility across borders" philosophy.

The CanFaster programme has attracted international PhD and Postdoc fellows (ER) with an interest in applied medical research in oncology and entrepreneurship to Lund University, CREATE Health and Medicon Village. The program was built on collaboration between industry, healthcare and academia to strengthen and accelerate innovations and clinical implementation in oncology. The CanFaster fellows have gained an understanding of unmet needs in the clinic and learn the mind-set of entrepreneurs.

Educate tomorrow’s cancer researchers in a broad set of scientific, transferrable, and business skills to become entrepreneurs.

The programme gave to 16 PhD students and 14 postdocs the appropriate training, experience, and guidance to combine research with efforts to create innovations within cancer. A rich and comprehensive training program was offered in combination with secondments in the non-academic sector, such as clinic or industry. The program promotes a novel type of academic training focused on the triple helix perspective where academia, health care and industry work together.

The researchers - to be trained in an academic as well as non-academic settings - have become true innovators, enforced with a broad set of scientific, transferable, and business skills.