08:30 – 09:00: Registration & Welcome coffee

09:00 – 09:15: Opening Remarks – SCRM & Organoid and Organ-on-Chip Swiss Society

09:15 – 10:30: Advances in Stem Cells and Organoids

• Marlen Knobloch (University of Lausanne). Metabolic Regulation of Neural Stem Cells.
• Matthias Lütolf (EPFL / Institute of Human Biology, Roche). Engineering Next-Generation Organoids for Early Drug Development.

10:30 – 11:00: Coffee Break & Poster Walk

11:00 – 12:00: Short talks (selected from submitted abstracts) and Industry Spotlight

12:00 – 13:30: Lunch Break & Poster Walk

13:30 – 14:45: Legal and Ethical Aspects

• Inesa Fausch (University of Basel). The Regulatory Future of Organoids: From Research to Commercialization.
• Pietro Gervasoni (swissethics). Ethical challenges in human neural organoid research: Navigating innovation, uncertainty, and responsible governance.
• Jenny Sandström (3RCC). Building a National Ecosystem for Advanced Cell Technologies: Launching the Swiss Cell Technologies Facilities Network.

14:45 – 15:15: Coffee Break & Poster Walk

15:15 – 16:30: Microphysiological Systems & Translational Applications

• David Pamies (University of Lausanne). Screening Compounds with iPSC-Derived Brain Organotypic Cultures: A Platform for Human Neurotoxicology.
• Marianna Rapsomaniki (CHUV / University of Lausanne). Spatial Organoids: Building predictive models for precision oncology across scales, modalities and perturbations.
• Matteo Moretti (Università della Svizzera Italiana / EOC). Exploring complexity in 3D human in vitro models: Biofabricated Platforms for Disease Modeling and Therapeutic Screening.

16:30 – 17:30: Short talks (selected from submitted abstracts) and Industry Spotlight

17:30 – 17:45: Award Ceremony & Closing Remarks

17:45 – 19:00: Apéro / Networking Reception