Astellas is committed to providing ongoing high-quality medical education opportunities that help ensure appropriate clinical use of our products, fulfill educational needs/gaps and, ultimately, improve patient care.
For more information, please visit https://astellasgrants.com/
Astellas’ Continued Commitment to Quality Medical Education
Astellas will continue to share new scientific data and disease information in a variety of formats that support the critical role of HCPs in improving patient care. Astellas supports education through many ongoing medical education activities, where available, including:
- Grants for Medical Education, also known as Independent Medical Education (IME)
- Symposia, webinars, e-learnings and web-based education (disease, treatment or product focused); examples include satellite symposia during a congress, speaker programmes and product theatres
- Direct funding to individual healthcare professionals (HCPs) to attend congresses and conferences
- Preceptorships
- Congress summaries
- Grants to healthcare organisations (HCOs) to support healthcare professional congress attendance
- Sponsorship of educational conferences
Astellas is exploring opportunities to increase digital/virtual options for medical education. We continuously seek to identify and understand the educational gaps within disease states of interest to Astellas in order to create and tailor meaningful educational programmes that fulfil healthcare providers’ information needs.
Individual Healthcare Professional Funding for Congress Attendance
Astellas provides direct funding to individual healthcare professionals (HCPs) to attend congresses and conferences, and will consider funding requests from HCPs, where individual HCP funding to support congress attendance is permitted by Code, Regulations and Law, and where Astellas eligibility criteria are met.
For specific information, list of congresses, eligibility requirements, and how to apply please go to https://astellasgrants.com/.
Grants to HCOs to Support HCP Congress Attendance
HCOs may apply for funding grants to support HCP registration at pre-identified, eligible congresses. HCOs must submit a grant funding application form and be able to independently manage the entire process without any hands-on support. A maximum of 10 HCPs can be funded through the grant request, and Astellas must have no involvement in the selection of the HCPs to receive support to register for congress. The HCO must be one of the following:
- Government or public-funded hospital
- Private hospital
- Medical society or association
- Other (university, research group, etc.)
An HCO is only eligible to receive grants for HCP congress registration two times per fiscal year (April to March) per therapeutic area Astellas supports.
How to apply
If you wish to apply for grant funding to support HCP congress attendance, please contact your local team.
Our Commitment to the Healthcare Community
We will continue to assess how we can evolve and enhance our medical education offerings to meet the ever-changing needs of the healthcare community and ensure healthcare professionals will continue to have access to the latest available data to understand clinical use of our existing medications and new medical innovations through Independent Medical Education (IME), symposia, speaker programmes, and other available options. We appreciate the healthcare community’s feedback that helped with the implementation of this change and the opportunities for engagement through the other educational activities we offer now and into the future.
MAT-GB-NON-2024-00615 October 2024
