Patients are at the heart of the EU’s Innovative Medicines
Initiative (IMI) that seeks to speed up the development of
more effective and safer medicines. Created in 2008 as a
public-private partnership, IMI plays a leading role in the
EU’s efforts to remove barriers to the discovery of new
treatments. It does this through collaborative research
projects and by building networks of industrial, academic
experts, researchers, regulators, clinicians and patients.