09:00 – 09:15 Event starts, participants can get familiar with the platform
09:15 – 09:30 Introductory words and platform tools explanation
09:30 – 09:55 – Introductory words of academic and industry liaisons
Prof.Dr. Gerrit Borchard – Professor in Biopharmaceutics at University of Geneva
09:55 – 10:20 – Physiologically based Biopharmaceutics modeling (PBBM) beyond oral route of administration
Dr. Ivana Tomić – Biopharmaceutics Expert at Novartis
10:20 – 10:45 – Expert career path at Nestlé R&D
Prof. Dr. Christoph Hartmann – Head of Academic Alliances at Nestlé
10:45 – 11:00 Coffee break
11:00 – 11:25 – The Beacon optofluidic system – can it revolutionize cell line construction?
Dr. Sandra Bosshard – Senior Scientist at Lonza
11:25 – 11:50 – A botanist turned Pharma scientist
Dr. Marco Prunotto – Head of Translational research at Galapagos
11:50 – 13:00 Lunch break – speed 1 to 1 networking between attendees
13:00 – 14:00 Networking session 1 (breakout rooms)
14:00 – 14:25 – In transition: From academia to a not-for-profit industry
Céline Lemoine – Scientist at VFI
14:25 – 14:50 – Microbiome in big pharma - Roche case study
Dr. Petar Šćepanović – Senior Scientist at Roche
14:50 – 15:15 – From innovative research tools to natural product discovery and human translation
Dr. Philipp Gut – Cell Biology Department Head at Nestlé
15:15 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 15:55 – A journey from academic research to startups
Dr. Olivier Jordan – Senior Lecturer at University of Geneva
15:55 – 16:20 – Development of Urolithin A, a natural metabolite of pomegranate, as an advanced nutrition product
Dr. Pénélope Andreux – Research and Development Group Leader at Amazentis
16:20 – 16:45 – Pharmaceutical Sciences - my journey between academy and industry
Prof.Dr. Hanns-Christian Mahler, Board member, Bionter AG
16:45 – 17:00 Closing Remarks
17:00 Networking session 2 (breakout rooms)
Event ends
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