[12th AuF symposium-cooperation between universities and industry : Opportunities for clinical implementation of research results].

The extraordinary webinar of this year's symposium of the task force urological research (AuF) focused on "Research in the context between universities and Pharma". The virtual congress addressed the challenge to translate scientific research findings into clinical practice and pharmaceuticals or medical devices. Several relevant problems and issues were addressed and perspectives of scientific researches from urology and pathology as well as those of managers from the pharmaceutical industry and the field of patent law were discussed with an interdisciplinary audience.