Hello everyone and welcome to Sounds of Science, a series of podcasts organized by

Yuko, the European Trade Body for small and medium-sized companies active in pharmaceuticals and

medical technologies. My name is Laurent Luet and I'm senior manager Yucope and I will be the host for today's episode.

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We will discuss today the recent developments in the field of advanced

diagnostics and we will see which added value they bring to the EU health

systems and the challenges to overcome to support a European advanced

diagnostics ecosystem we are joined today by two experts in the field

Benjamin Gannon and Matthias Olsen.

Ben, you are head of market access and policy international at Gond Health,

and you have with you a long experience in licenses at the European policy level.

Hello, Ben.

Good morning, good afternoon or good evening.

Laval, wherever you are in the internet today.

Matthias, you are a policy officer at Yucope,

and you are leading the work of the Dynamics Working Group at Yucope.

Hi, Matthias.

Hi, Laura. Thank you so much for introducing me. I have to say I'm a bit nervous

when you introduce me as an expert, but I do have the immense pleasure of working with these

companies that are developing these very, very innovative and exciting technologies. And it's a

thrill to be here today. All right. Thank you very much. So, well, thanks for being with us today.

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