Join our 1st Swiss Translational Medicine Conference in Bern!
PROGRAM
General Moderation: Nadine C. Martin
09:00-09:10 Official Welcome
- Claudio Bassetti, Medical Faculty, University of Bern
09:10-10:00 Keynote: Perspectives on translational ecosystems
- Mary Tolikas, Dana Farber Cancer Institute, Boston
10:00-10:30 Coffee Break
10:30-12:00 Swiss Experts' Talk
Moderation: Simon Rothen
- "Translational Medicine within an academic environment" by Jörg Goldhahn, Department of Health Sciences and Technology, ETH Zürich
- "Computational Biology and Bioinformatics tools and insight into modern biology and medicine" by Ioannis Xenarios, Health 2030 Genome Center, Lausanne
- "MeDiTech – a Bridge between Clinical Medicine and Industry" by Francesca Faraci, MeDiTech, SUPSI
- "Spinal cord gateways to restore functions after neurological disorders" by Grégoire Courtine, G-Lab EPFL & Jocelyne Bloch, Neurosurgery CHUV
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:30 Masterclasses
Moderation: Janine Antonov
- "Closing the Last Mile in Neurology" by Kaspar Schindler, NeuroTec & Tobias Nef, ArtOrg
- "High-resolution T1 atlas for subject-specific disease detection at 7T" by Piotr Radojewski, Translational Imaging Centre & Tobias Kober, Siemens Healthineers
- "Eye to Eye with AI: Translation for Retinal pathologies" by Raphaël Sznitman, Center for Artificial Intelligence in Medicine & Meritxell Bach Cuadra, Center for Biomedical Imaging, University of Lausanne
- "Innovation Projects in Diabetes: a Translational Story" by Lilian Witthauer, Martina Rothenbühler & Simon Schwaighofer, Diabetes Centre Berne
15:30-16:00 Coffee Break
16:00-16:45 Podium Discussion “The View From Abroad”
Moderation: Rudolf Blankart
- Ulf Nehrbass, Luxemburg Institute of Health (LU)
- Nicole Schaad, State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (CH)
- Martin Walter, Center for Intervention and Research on Adaptive and Maladaptive Brain Circuits Underlying Mental Health (DE)
- Luc Zimmer, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1 (FR)
16:45-17:15 Keynote: Including environmental aspects into translational medicine
- Andreas Häner, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel
From 17:15 Closure of Conference and Reception
