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 \| Room A 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 "A Short Guidance on Success Factors in Drug Development" 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 \| Room A Keynote Presentation 2 by Prof Birgit Koch, Professor of Clinical Pharmacometrics at Erasmus MC Ariëns Lecture by Prof Luke O’Neill
12:45- 14:00	Lunch Break Poster Presentations
	Room A	Room B	Room C	Room D
14:00- 14:20	Industry Innovation Presentation NewAmsterdam Pharma: CETP Inhibition Revisited: Obicetrapib's Therapeutic Promise in Cardiometabolic and Neurological Disease	Industry Innovation Presentation CAS: From Molecules to Mechanisms: Unlocking Pharmacology Insights with CAS BioFinder	Industry Innovation Presentation Oncolines: Target identification via comparative cancer cell panel profiling
14:20 - 14:35	Changing rooms
	Room A	Room B	Room C	Room D
14:35- 15:50	AI in Drug Development Session 1	Novel Targets for the Treatment of Metabolic Health Disorders Session 4	Collaborative Drug Discovery & Development: The Power of Partnerships Session 3	Starting a Business in Life Sciences Session 2
15:50- 16:20	Coffee Break
	Room A	Room B	Room C	Room D
16:20 - 17:35	Beyond Small Molecules: Novel Modalities in Medicinal Chemistry Session 6	Restoring Central Nervous System (CNS) Homeostasis: Emerging Novel Treatments for Comorbid Depression, Substance Use and Chronic Pain Session 5	Emerging (Pre)clinical Predictive Models to Advance Translational Brain Research Session 7	Open Research Facilities and Infrastructures: Democratizing Advanced Technologies Session 8
17:35 - 18:35	Networking Drinks
18:35 - 21:00	Conference Walking Dinner @BioPartner Leiden

Programme Day 2 - 9 October 2025

08:30- 09:00	Welcome & Coffee
	Room A	Room B	Room C	Room D
09:00- 10:15	Navigating the Complexities of Rare Disease Therapy Development Session 12	Patient Access to Unregistered Medicines: Current Developments in Compassionate Use Session 10	Discovering Career Opportunities in the Field of Drug Development: Insights from the Industry, Biotech and Academy Session 11	Innovations in Academic Drug Manufacturing Session 9
10:15- 10:45	Coffee Break
	Room A	Room B	Room C	Room D
10:45- 11:05	Industry Innovation Presentation PD-Value: Accelerate Antibody Development through Quantitative Systems Pharmacology – the Pembrolizumab Story		Industry Innovation Presentation NecstGen - Enabling Translational Medicine from Bench to Bedside
11:05- 11:15	Changing rooms
	Room A	Room B	Room C	Room D
11:15- 12:30	Translational Toxicology: From Mechanistic Models to Clinical Safety Session 14	Educational Bridges: Connecting Developers to Clinic and Patients Session 13	Innovation in Pharmaceutical Patient Care Session 16	Advances in Global Health Research Session 15
12:30- 14:00	Lunch Break Poster Presentations
14:00- 15:15	PhD Student Competition \| Room A
15:15- 15:45	Coffee Break
15:45- 17:15	Plenary Closing Programme \| Room A Award ceremony PhD Student Competition Keynote presentation "Prostaglandin E2: Protector or Provocateur in Gut Inflammation?" by Dr Chengcan Yao, University of Edinburgh 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 Sjaak Bot, Scientific Fellow Regulatory Affairs at Lygature Award ceremony Poster Presentations
17:15- 18:15	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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