The 5th Annual SPARK Global Meeting at the University of Technology Sydney – Sydney, Australia was a great success. We wanted to share with you the video here that opened the SPARK Global event in the Parliament House in Sydney, Australia (9/5/19). The three day international event was spectacular. We hope, with all your continued […]
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SPARK Global Translational Research Pilot Grants 2020: Request for Proposals

SPARK Global is pleased to announce its inaugural calls for multi-institutional collaboration proposals to support the discovery and development of novel therapeutics and diagnostics that address unmet medical needs in global health. This specific program is kindly funded by a philanthropic foundation and, accordingly, successful projects will be subject to the foundation’s final decision. SPARK […]
An educational platform for the SPARK Global

Dear colleagues, With the support of SPARK at Stanford and SPARK Global, SPARK Finland is developing an educational platform for the SPARK Global. The goal of the SPARK education platform is to provide, in global context, new type of education in product development, business development and financing targeted to this industry. The contents of the […]
2019 SPARK Asia Showcase – Taipei, Taiwan
SPARK Taiwan is partnering this year with BIOTaiwan to organize the 2019 SPARK Asia showcase event at the BIO Asia-Taiwan 2019 Conference and Exhibition event (https://bioasiataiwan.com/en), taking place in Taipei from July 24th-28th, 2019. Twelve SPARK projects from Taiwan, Singapore, Korea and Australia will showcase their drug and medical device development programs that are ready […]
2019 SPARK Translational Medicine Symposium in Taiwan: Starting with the End in Mind
On May 15, 2019, SPARK Translational Medicine Symposium was held in Taiwan. The SPARK Translational Medicine Symposium is an annual event hosted by Taiwan SPARK, and this year’s theme focused on Starting with the End in Mind. Development and commercialization of novel drugs or medical devices typically requires a long value-creation process – because there […]
SPARK Advisor Awarded a Fulbright Specialist Award
Lyn Frumkin, MD, PhD, a SPARK advisor who was trained at Stanford, was awarded a Fulbright Specialist award in recognition of his activities at SPARK. Dr. Lyn Frumkin’s Fulbright Specialist Award will allow him to benefit a host institution abroad as well as SPARK at Stanford. With the award, he will participate in SPARK Taiwan […]