Biotechnet Meet-Up 2025: Biotech and Aging Verified listing

Join us for Biotechnet's Meet-Up on January 28, 2025!

Is “aging” a disease? The question has various ethical and philosophical components. From a scientific point of view, medicine can help enable healthy aging and possibly, a longer life.

Biotechnet Switzerland’s Meet-Up 2025 will shed light on the different aspects in which biotechnology is or should be active in the realm of aging. Keynote speakers from industry and academia will share how they are approaching aging research. Extended networking will allow participants to discover each others' expertise and share knowledge.

Biotechnet members will incorporate findings from the Meet-Up into our teaching and research activities, and the event may stimulate new collaborative projects.

Researchers working in universities, industry, and the clinic are welcome to join. Due to high demand for this free event, which primarily targets biotech and data science researchers, all registrations will be reviewed before they are accepted. The organizers reserve the right to accept, reject, or place registrations on the waiting list.

Program

13.00 Registration and coffee

13.15 Google’s Health Care & Life Science Community. Hemant Anand and Janaina Poeta Frey, Google

13.30 Biotechnet and its Platforms. Dr. Laura Suter-Dick, President, Biotechnet

13.45 Diseases of Aging. Dr. Ina Kramer, Director, Diseases of Aging and Regenerative Medicine, Novartis

14.10  Centenara: Live longer, age better. Dr. Aksana Labokha, CEO, Centenara

14.35 Why some organs age faster than others. Dr. Deborah Stroka, Group Leader, Systems Biomedicine of Cellular Development and Signaling in Health and Disease, Department of Biomedical Research, University of Bern

15.00 Coffee break and networking at exhibition tables*

15.30 Immunosenescence: When our immune system gets old. Dr. Birgit Weinberger, Group Leader, Immune Senesence and Vaccination, Institute for Biomedical Aging Research, Universität Innsbruck

15.55 Panel discussion: What role should biotech play in aging research?

16.30 Intellectual property landscape – Biotech and aging. Dr. Christian Moser Nikles, Swiss Federal Institute of Intellectual Property (IPI)

17.00 Apéro and networking

18.00 End of the event

*Networking:

Google Life Sciences projects: Discover projects where start-ups are using the Google Cloud, models, algorithms, and platforms for drug discovery.

Euresearch: Discover European collaborative projects and financing calls in health and aging.

Biotechnet platforms: Discover which technologies they specialize in, who their members are, example collaborations, and how their work relates to aging.

• Poster 1: Data science. Abdullah Kahraman, Alex Kuhn, Lukas Neutsch.
• Poster 2: In Vitro Diagnostics. Loïc Burr.
• Poster 3: Stem cells and regenerative medicine. Amiq Gazdhar, Andreina Schoenbergian.
• Poster 4: Tissue engineering for drug development. Markus Rimann, Kasia Kopanska.
• Poster 5: Antibiotics. Markus Seeger.
• Poster 6: Biomanufacturing. Regine Eibl, Misha Teal, Thomas Villiger.
• Poster 7: Biocatalysis. Rebecca Buller.

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