Biotechnet's 5th annual meet-up will take place on January 27, 2027 at the Novartis Pavilion in Basel.

The focus of this edition will be Women's Health, featuring invited experts in the areas of oncology, cardivascular, and brain health. Their keynote talks will extend beyond 'bikini medicine' - looking at how sex and gender affect various aspects of health, disease, diagnosis, and treatment.

The event will bring together Biotechnet members, academic researchers, and industry representatives who are investigating these topics or want to learn more. An extended coffee break as well as a networking apéro will allow participants to make new connections and discuss potential collaborative R&D projects.

Program

13.30 Welcome
Prof. Dr. Oya Tagit, President, Biotechnet and Group leader, Nanobiointerfaces, FHNW School of Life Sciences

Keynotes

13.40 What does gender medicine have to do with precision oncology?
Dr. Berna Oezdemir, Senior Physician, Department of Medical Oncology, Inselspital Bern

14.10 Cardiovascular diseases in women.
Dr. Carolin Lerchenmüller, Senior attending physician, Clinic for Cardiology, Unispital Zurich; Head, Chair of Gender Medicine, University of Zurich

14.40 Sex and gender precision medicine for women’s health.
Dr. Antonella Santuccione, CEO, Women's Brain Foundation; Vice-President, Euresearch

15.10 Coffee break and networking

Biotechnet platforms and how their work relates to women's health

15.45 Diagnosing women: what gets overlooked and why
Samantha Paoletti, In vitro diagnostics

16.00 Sex-specific biomarkers, diagnostics and therapeutics
Abdullah Kahraman / Alex Kuhn, Data science

16:15 Understanding female diseases: Female-derived cell-based models
Laura Suter-Dick and Steffi Lehmann, Tissue engineering for drug development

16:30 Prevention and treatment of perinatal brain damage
Andreina Schoeberlein, Stem cells and regenerative medicine

16:45 How environmental contaminants affect women differently
Marco Rupprich, Green chem and sustainable biotech

17:00 Women’s immunity: a double-edged sword
Markus Seeger, Antibiotics

17:15 Apéro and networking