Agenda
8:30 AM
Registration & Welcome - Day 1
9:25 AM
Meeting unmet medical needs in cancer
SESSION 1
9:25 AM
Jelena Gnjatovic
FICAN West Cancer Centre (FI)
9:40 AM
Prashant Changoer
Radboud UMC (NL)
9:55 AM
Albert A. Antolín
IDIBELL (ES)
10:10 AM
Ana Álvarez
RePo-SUDOE, CBMN (FR)
10:25 PM
Panel discussion
CHAIRED BY
Romana Netea-Maier
Radboud UMC (NL)
10:45 AM
Break - Coffee, Tea & Posters
11:15 AM
Meeting unmet medical needs in neurological disorders
SESSION 2
11:15 AM
Ana I. Casas
University Hospital Essen (DE)
11:30 AM
Karen E. Malone
Sherwood Pharmaceuticals (NL)
11:45 AM
Andrea Álvarez
Technical University of Madrid (ES)
12:00 PM
Sándor Farkas
VRG Therapeutics (HU)
12:15 PM
Panel discussion
CHAIRED BY
Prashant Changoer
Radboud UMC (NL)
12:35 PM
Break - Lunch & Posters
1:35 PM
THE REMEDi4ALL SISTER PROJECT
SESSION 3
1:35 PM
Rick Thompson
Beacon for Rare Diseases (UK)
1:50 PM
Megan Burley
Beacon for Rare Diseases (UK)
2:05 PM
Alicia Soler Cantón
EATRIS (NL)
2:20 PM
Martin de Kort
EATRIS (NL)
2:35 PM
Panel discussion
CHAIRED BY
Artur Olesch
about Digital Health (DE)
2:55 PM
Innovation in Drug Development and Repurposing
SESSION 4
2:55 PM
Ranjita Shegokar Sahoo
DiHeSys (DE)
3:25 PM
Elisabetta Vaudano
Innovative Health Initiative (BE)
3:40 PM
Lee Lancashire
Every Cure (UK)
3:55 PM
Merel Kimman
Maastricht UMC+ (NL)
4:10 PM
Panel discussion
CHAIRED BY
Christian Franken
DiHeSys (DE)
4:30 PM
Break - Coffee, Tea & Posters
5:00 PM
Network Medicine Alliance: Network Medicine Approach to Adverse Drug Event Prediction for New and Repurposed Drugs
SESSION 5
5:15 PM
Paola Paci
Sapienza Università di Roma (IT)
5:30 PM
Farzaneh Firoozbakht
University of Hamburg (DE)
5:45 PM
Michelle Li
Harvard Medical School (US)
6:00 PM
Joe Loscalzo
Harvard Medical School (US)
6:15 PM
Panel discussion
CHAIRED BY
Joe Loscalzo
Harvard Medical School (US)
6:35 PM
Buchanan Sponsor Session: Translating to the global market
SESSION 6
6:35 PM
Edward John Allera & Matthew L. Fedowitz
Buchanan (US)
7:05 PM
David Cavalla
Numedicus (UK)
7:20 PM
Anja Schiel
Norwegian Medical Products Agency (NO)
7:35 PM
Panel discussion
CHAIRED BY
Matthew L. Fedowitz
Buchanan (US)
8:00 PM
Walking Dinner - PRBB
9:00 AM
Welcome - Day 2
9:15 AM
AI/ML In Systems Medicine & Drug Repurposing I
SESSION 7
9:15 AM
Markus List
Technical University of Munich (DE)
9:30 AM
Fernando M. Delgado-Chavez
University of Hamburg (DE)
9:45 AM
Jan Baumbach
University of Hamburg (DE)
10:00 AM
Lisa M. Spindler
Technical University of Munich (DE)
10:15 AM
Panel discussion
CHAIRED BY
Emre Guney
STALICLA DDS (ES)
10:35 AM
Break - Coffee, Tea & Posters
11:05 AM
International highlights – Fostering mechanism-based repurposing around the globe in academia and beyond
SESSION 8
11:05 AM
Harald Schmidt
Maastricht University (NL)
11:20 AM
Jens Habermann
BBMRI-ERIC (AT)
11:35 AM
Johannes Beckers
INFRAFRONTIER (DE)
11:50 AM
Hugo A. L. Filipe
RePo-SUDOE, Polytechnic of Guarda (PT)
12:05 PM
Sona Vasudevan
Georgetown University (US)
12:20 PM
Panel discussion
CHAIRED BY
Anja Schiel
Norwegian Medical Products Agency (NO)
12:40 PM
Hot topics & Late-breaking abstracts
SESSION 9
12:40 PM
Michael Firgens
MF BIOTECH (DE)
12:46 PM
Natalie K. Binder
University of Melbourne (AU)
12:52 PM
João Joaquim
Polytechnic of Coimbra/SPSP (PT)
12:58 PM
Natasha de Alwis
University of Melbourne (AU)
1:04 PM
Jasmin Bahr
University Hospital Essen (DE)
1:10 PM
Break - Lunch & Posters
2:10 PM
Launch of the Network & Systems Medicine Journal
2:25 PM
REPO4EU's drug repurposing platform
SESSION 10
2:25 PM
Chloé Bucheron
University of Vienna (AT)
2:40 PM
Frauke Herbst
Eurofins Discovery (DE)
2:55 PM
Hermann Mucke
HMPC (AT)
3:10 PM
Balázs Orbán
Egnosis (RO)
3:40 PM
Panel discussion
CHAIRED BY
Béla Bihari
Egnosis (RO)
4:00 PM
Break - Coffee, Tea & Posters
4:30 PM
The last mile – Accessibility for Patient Benefit
SESSION 11
4:45 PM
Jocelijn Stokx
CM/MC (BE)
5:00 PM
Nerea Blanqué Catalina
Alira Health (ES)
5:15 PM
Teebah Abu-Zahra
Maastricht UMC+ (NL)
5:30 PM
Panel discussion
CHAIRED BY
Ana Sofía Carvalho
University of Porto (PT)
5:50 PM
Poster prizes & Young Investigator Award
SESSION 12
7:00 PM
Conference dinner
REGISTRATION ONLY
Restaurant Xiroi
Passeig Marítim de la Nova Icària, 38,
Sant Martí, 08005 Barcelona, Spain
9:30 AM
Welcome - Day 3
9:45 AM
AI/ML In Systems Medicine & Drug Repurposing II
SESSION 13
9:45 AM
Stefano Piotto
SoftMining (IT)
10:00 AM
Laura Pérez-Cano
STALICLA DDS (ES)
10:15 AM
Siqi Wei
Radboud UMC (NL)
10:30 AM
Andrew Crouse
Hugh Kaul Precision Medicine Institute (US)
10:45 AM
Panel discussion
CHAIRED BY
Lucía Prieto
Technical University of Madrid (ES)
11:05 AM
Break - Coffee & Tea
11:35 AM
The patient voice: Patient-centricity
SESSION 14
11:35 AM
Ana Sofia Carvalho
University of Porto (PT)
11:50 AM
François Houÿez
EURORDIS (FR)
12:20 PM
George Patrinos
Hellenic Pasteur Institute (GR)
12:35 PM
Panel discussion
CHAIRED BY
Sibylle Reichert
AIM (BE)
12:55 PM
The 2025 Honorary Lecture
SESSION 15
12:55 PM
Alfonso Valencia
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
2:00 PM
Wrap up, lunch & farewell
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