Now Available: How to Make Team Science a Success - Lessons Learned and Reflections from the RE-JOIN Consortium

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Speaking at the 2026 PURPOSE Annual Meeting, Nele Haelterman, PhD, Team Science Center Lead for the RE-JOIN Consortium, presents an operational framework for managing complex, transdisciplinary team science in pain and addiction research. Drawing from the HEAL Initiative's RE-JOIN consortium, Haelterman demonstrates how transitioning from traditional single lab setups to multi team systems requires deliberate structural planning, goal alignment, and standardized data coordination. She highlights the implementation of a Multi Team System Blueprint to align cross-institutional workflows, showing how early consensus on data harmonization, metadata collection, and transparent consortium authorship models builds trust and prevents friction across large research networks.

Key areas covered in the presentation:

• Systemic Project Blueprinting: Learn how to apply a structured blueprinting model to define shared research goals, map multi team workflows, and establish effective governance across diverse scientific disciplines.
  
  

• Pre Execution Data Harmonization: Discover the necessity of front loading metadata standards and aligning analytical pipelines early to enable seamless cross-species and inter-institutional data integration.
  
  

• Proactive Credit and Governance Frameworks: See how adopting structured attribution policies, such as collective consortium banners, mitigates interpersonal conflict and preserves long-term institutional trust.