PROGRAMME 2025

The programme of the Dutch Medicines Days offers high-level plenary lectures, various parallel sessions where the different member organisations present their research.

Below is the preliminary programme overview of Dutch Medicines Days 2025 that will take place on 8-9 October 2025 in Leiden. Please be aware that the session order might be subjected to change.

Programme Day 1 - 8 October 2025

09:00 - 09:30	Welcome & Coffee
09:30 - 10:45	Plenary Opening Programme Opening by Prof Laura Heitman (Chair of DMD2025) and Prof Klaas Poelstra (Chair of FIGON) Welcome Speech by Peter Heijkoop, Mayor of Leiden Keynote Presentation 1 by Dr Andreas Wallnöfer, Biotech Board Member and Serial Entrepreneur, Life Sciences Consulting Panel Discussion "Is innovative drug discovery sustainable with a non- innovative clinical trial environment?" with: Frank Pétavy, Head of Methodology, Data Analytics and Methods Task Force at EMA Andreas Wallnöfer, Biotech Board Member and Serial Entrepreneur, Life Sciences Consulting Mira Zuidgeest, Associate Professor at UMC Utrecht moderated by Prof Adam Cohen
10:45 - 11:15	Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:45	Plenary Programme Part II Keynote Presentation 2 by Prof Birgit Koch, Professor of Clinical Pharmacometrics at Erasmus MC Ariëns Lecture by Prof Luke O’Neill
12:45 - 14:15	Lunch Break Poster Presentations
14:15 - 14:35	Industry Innovation Slot 1 NewAmsterdam Pharma	Industry Innovation Slot 2 Oncolines	Industry Innovation Slot 3 Leiden Bio Science Park	Industry Innovation Slot 4 PD-Value
14:35 - 15:50	Session 1 AI in Drug Development	Session 2 Starting a Business in Life Sciences	Session 3 Collaborative Drug Discovery & Development: The Power of Partnerships	Session 4 Novel Targets for the Treatment of Metabolic Heath Disorders
15:50 - 16:20	Coffee Break
16:20 - 17:35	Session 5 Restoring Central Nervous System (CNS) Homeostasis: Emerging Novel Treatments for Comorbid Depression, Substance Use and Chronic Pain	Session 6 Beyond Small Molecules: Novel Modalities in Medicinal Chemistry	Session 7 Emerging (Pre)clinical Predictive Models to Advance Translational Brain Research	Session 8 Open Research Facilities and Infrastructures: Democratizing Advanced Technologies
17:35 - 18:35	Networking Drinks
19:00 - 21:00	Conference Walking Dinner @BioPartner Leiden

Programme Day 2 - 9 October 2025

08:45 - 09:15	Welcome & Coffee
09:15 - 10:30	Session 9 Innovations in Academic Drug Manufacturing	Session 10 Patient Access to Unregistered Medicines: Current Developments in Compassionate Use	Session 11 Discovering Career Opportunities in the Field of Drug Development: Insights from the Industry, Biotech and Academy	Session 12 Navigating the Complexities of Rare Disease Therapy Development: Insights from the UK and NL
10:30 - 11:00	Coffee Break
11:00 - 12:15	Session 13 Educational Bridges: Connecting Developers to Clinic and Patients	Session 14 Translational Toxicology: From Mechanistic Models to Clinical Safety	Session 15 Advances in Global Health Research	Session 16 Innovation in Pharmaceutical Patient Care
12:15 - 13:45	Lunch Break Poster Presentations
13:45 - 15:00	PhD Student Competition
15:00 - 15:30	Coffee Break
15:30 - 17:00	Plenary Closing Programme Keynote presentation 3 by Dr Chengcan Yao, University of Edinburgh Award ceremonies PhD Student Competition and Poster Awards Closing panel discussion with: Ralf Herold, Head of Workstream Regulatory Science and Academia at EMA Marjon Pasmooij, Head of Science Department at CBG-MEB & Associate Professor at Utrecht University Just Weemers, Johnson & Johnson
17:00 - 18:00	Networking Drinks

For most of the subsessions, we have space to include 1 or 2 oral presentations submitted by our delegates. The deadline for submitting an abstract for an oral presentation is 15 July 2025. Click here for more information about abstract submission.

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