Redefining What's Possible
The DIA Global Annual Meeting brings together the people advancing science, shaping regulation, accelerating innovation, and championing patients to explore what's next and make it real. The future won't be defined by any one discipline, organization, or perspective. It will be built together.
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The biggest challenges in healthcare won't be solved in isolation. Breakthrough science, evolving regulations, emerging technologies, and changing patient expectations are redefining what's possible across healthcare and life sciences. DIA brings together industry, regulators, academia, patients, and innovators to tackle these challenges together, creating the conditions for progress that no single stakeholder can achieve alone.
DIA 2027 Highlights
Breaking Down Silos
Connect with stakeholders across industry, regulatory agencies, academia, and patient advocacy to tackle complex challenges together.
View AgendaA Global Conversation With Local Impact
With participants from over 40 countries, DIA 2027 is where international regulatory harmonization, global market strategy, and cross-border collaboration happen in real time, with direct implications for how you work when you get home.
Explore Our OfferingsGlobal Annual Meeting Through the Years
The energy, the connections, the moments that stay with you long after you leave.
The Evolution of DIA
Sixty-three years ago, thirty people saw a problem the industry couldn't solve alone. They built the table. We're still at it.
DIA Is Founded
In the wake of the Thalidomide crisis, 30 pharmaceutical professionals, medical writers, and academics recognized that the industry needed a neutral place to work through its hardest problems together. DIA was built to be that place, and has been ever since.
Global Expansion
DIA enters a period of global growth and expansion to support ICH and the scientific evaluation of medicines efforts, establishing formal offices in the US, Switzerland, and Japan. DIA members form a Community to define global data standards used in medical research, which leads to the formation of the Clinical Data Interchange Standards Consortium (CDISC).
Global Membership Growth
DIA membership expands globally to over 80 countries, with local offerings to Latin America, Canada, Korea, China, India, the Middle East and Singapore. DIA relaunches Drug Information Journal as Therapeutic Innovation & Regulatory Science.
DIA Reimagined for the Future
DIA 2027 represents the next evolution—enhanced learning formats, expanded networking, and innovative programming like the LIFT Series, while maintaining the power of in-person connection.
Publications & Science at DIA
Share Evidence. Shape Dialogue.
Publish peer-reviewed research, expert perspectives, and practical insights through DIA's publications portfolio — connecting your work to the conversations that matter most in medical product development.
Explore PublicationsRead What's Shaping the Conversation
Explore expert perspectives and peer-reviewed research on AI, obesity, clinical trials, cell & gene therapy, regulatory innovation, and more — the topics driving the agenda at GAM 2027.
Featured ArticlesFrom Evidence to Impact
See how peer-reviewed research, expert perspectives, and collaborative scientific initiatives in chronic diseases, AI, cell & gene therapy, precision medicine, and other high-priority areas drive the conversations — and solutions — featured at GAM 2027.
Explore Our InitiativesSan Diego is Waiting
Be in the room where the future of medical product development gets decided. June 28–July 1, 2027
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