HEOR Meets Investing—Why Are Banks and VCs Collaborating With Health Economists?

December 2, 2025

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Title: HEOR Meets Investing—Why Are Banks and VCs Collaborating With Health Economists? 

Tuesday, December 2, 2025
11:00AM EST | 4:00PM UTC | 5:00PM CET

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Description

In recent years, there has been a growing trend of HEOR professionals collaborating with investment banks and venture capitalists (VC). Why are banks and VCs thinking about health economics? Can health economics inform investment decisions? Can HEOR methods and thinking improve return on investment for life science investors? This webinar convenes a group of health economists collaborating with various financial institutions to explore these questions. Each panelist will discuss the potential applications of HEOR in life science investing and outline opportunities and challenges for collaborations among the different sectors. Each panelist will share how HEOR is being applied in their current positions and discuss opportunities for additional synergies between the health economic and financial sectors. The webinar will end with an interactive Q&A, allowing the audience to directly engage with panelists to discuss the emerging intersection between HEOR and investing. 

Learning Objectives

  • Demonstrate how HEOR can inform investment decisions.
  • Discuss HEOR methods that can improve return on investment for life science investors. 
  • Compare and contrast traditional investor decision-making frameworks with HEOR value frameworks.

Moderator:

Jen Fine, PhD, Senior Vice President and Global Head Evidence Generation & HEOR, Abivax, Paris, France 

Speakers:

William Canestaro, PhD, Managing Director, Pioneer Square Labs, Startup Studio & Venture Capital Fund, Seattle, WA, USA

Richard Xie, PhD, RA Capital Management, Boston, MA, USA

Melanie D Whittington, MS, PhD, Managing Director, Leerink Center for Pharmacoeconomics, Boston, MA, USA

Meng Li, MS, PhD, The Center for the Evaluation of Value and Risk in Health, Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA


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Please note: On the day of the scheduled webinar, the first 1000 registered participants will be accepted into the webinar. For those who are unable to attend, or would like to review the webinar at a later date, the full-length webinar recording will be made available at the ISPOR Educational Webinar Series webpage approximately 2 days after the scheduled Webinar.

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