PROGRAMME 2026

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 2026 that took place on 7-8 October 2026 in Leiden.

Preliminary Programme Day 1 - 7 October 2026

09:00 - 09:30	Welcome & Coffee
09:30 - 10:45	Plenary Opening Programme Opening by Prof Laura Heitman (Chair of DMD2026) and Prof Klaas Poelstra (Chair of FIGON) Welcome Speech TBA
10:45 - 11:15	Coffee Break
Session 1 The Netherlands as a Hotspot for Clinical Research? From International Positioning to Local Feasibility 11:15 - 12:30	Session 2 From Structural Insight to Therapeutic Design 11:15 - 12:30	Session 3 Pharmacological Regeneration of Tissues 11:15 - 12:30	Session 4 From Mechanism to First-in-Human: Immunopharmacology Today 11:15 - 12:30	Industry Innovation Slots 11:15 - 12:30
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch Break
PhD Student Competition I 13:30 - 14:45	Session 5 Next Generation Preclinical Science: AI and Beyond 13:30 - 14:45	Session 6 Lipids and Lipoproteins in Drug Discovery and Therapeutic Innovation 13:30 - 14:45	Session 7 Human Diversity in Drug Responses: From Insight to Precision Medicine 13:30 - 14:45	Industry Innovation Slots 13:30 - 14:45
14:45 - 14:55	Short Break
PhD Student Competition II 14:55 - 16:10	Session 8 Career Session 14:55 - 16:10	Session 9 From Data to Decisions: Leveraging ePI, RWD, AI and Beyond! 14:55 - 16:10	Session 10 Becoming Funding-Ready 14:55 - 16:10	Industry Innovation Slots 14:55 - 16:10
16:10- 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:45	Plenary Closing Programme FIGON Douwe Breimer Award 2026 TBA
17:45 - 18:45	Networking Drinks
19:00 - 21:00	Conference Walking Dinner

Preliminary Programme Day 2 - 8 October 2026

08:30 - 09:00	Welcome & Coffee
09:00 - 10:15	Plenary Opening Programme Opening by Prof Laura Heitman (Chair of DMD2026) and Prof Klaas Poelstra (Chair of FIGON) TBA
10:15 - 10:45	Coffee Break
Session 11 Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Dutch Sectorplan Bèta-II: Status and Future Perspectives 10:45 – 12:00	Session 12 Building Future Pharma 10:45 – 12:00	Session 13 Innovate: Organoid Technologies in Precision Treatment Optimization 10:45 – 12:00		LDDC Track TNO Session 10:45 – 12:00
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch Break
Session 14 Innovation and Affordability Hand in Hand 13:00 - 14:15	Session 15 LED3: From Collaborative Discovery to Novel Therapeutic Candidates at Leiden University 13:00 - 14:15	Session 16 Translate: From Research to Improved Patient Care 13:00 - 14:15	Session 17 Why Great Science Rarely Reaches Patients, and What It Takes to Change That 13:00 - 14:15	LDDC Track Oligonucleotides as Treatment Strategy 13:00 - 14:15
Session 18 Lifelong Learning in the Pharma & Biotech Sector 14:30 - 15:45	Session 19 Medicine Shortages 14:30 - 15:45	Session 20 Innovation in Pharmaceutical Patient Care 14:30 - 15:45	Session 21 Accelerating Academic Therapy Development for Rare Diseases 14:30 - 15:45	LDDC Track Johnson & Johnson Talent and Career Session 14:30 - 15:45
15:45 - 16:15	Coffee Break
16:15 - 17:30	Plenary Closing Programme PhD Student Competition & Award Ceremony - Top 3 Pitches Poster Award Ceremony TBA
17:30 - 18:30	Networking Drinks

For most of the subsessions, we have space to include 1 or 2 oral presentations submitted by our delegates.

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