STAT Breakthrough Summit East 2027

Medical innovation has never moved faster. New treatments can edit miswired genes, curing rare diseases at their point of origin. GLP-1 medicines are reaching millions of people — and reshaping society. New drug approvals are approaching multi-year highs.

But the inputs into the innovation engine are more complicated than ever. Early stage R&D is on a base of shifting sand as a result of changes at the government level. Innovation in China threatens to upend the international research enterprise. And artificial intelligence could change everything — really everything — or just improve things a bit. Add to that societal pressures around culture and equity, and the future is incredibly hard to predict. This summit will give people working in the space the context they need to grapple with this complexity and to understand what’s next.