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.

Preliminary Programme Day 1 - 8 October 2025

09:00 - 09:30 Welcome & Coffee
09:30 - 10:45Plenary Opening Programme

Opening FIGON by Prof Laura Heitman (Chair of DMD2025) and Prof Klaas Poelstra (Chair of FIGON)
Welcome Speech
Keynote Presentation
Panel Discussion "Is innovative drug discovery sustainable with a non- innovative clinical trial environment?"
10:45 - 11:15
Coffee Break
11:15 - 12:45Plenary Programme Part II

Keynote Presentation
Ariëns Lecture
12:45 - 14:15
Lunch Break

Poster Presentations
14:15 - 14:35
Industry Innovation
Slot 1
Industry Innovation
Slot 2             
Industry Innovation
Slot 3
Industry Innovation
Slot 4
14:35 - 15:50Session 1
AI in Drug Development
                                                     		Session 2
Discovering Career Opportunities in the Field of Drug Development:
Insights from the Industry, Biotech and Academy
Session 3
Collaborative Drug Discovery & Development:
The Power of Partnerships		Session 4
Novel Targets for the Treatment of Metabolic Heath Disorders                                 
15:50 - 16:20Coffee Break
16:20 - 17:35
Session 5
Restoring Homeostasis
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 - 18:35Networking Drinks
19:00 - 21:00
  
Conference Walking Dinner @BioPartner Leiden

Preliminary Programme Day 2 - 9 October 2025

08:45 - 09:15Welcome & Coffee
09:15 - 10:30
Session 9
Innovations in Academic Drug Manufacturing
Session 10
Patient Access to Unregistered Medicines: Current Developments

Session 11
Starting a Business in Life Sciences
Session 12
Navigating the Complexities of Rare Disease Therapy Development:
Insights from the UK and NL
10:30 - 11:00Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:20Industry Innovation
Slot 5		Industry Innovation Slot 6          
Industry Innovation Slot 7        
Industry Innovation
Slot 8
11:20 - 12:35Session 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
                                                                                     
12:35 - 14:00Lunch Break

Poster Presentations
14:00 - 15:15PhD Student Competition
15:15 - 15:45
Coffee Break
15:45 - 17:00Plenary Closing Programme

  • Keynote presentations
  • Award ceremonies
17:00 - 18:00Networking 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 1 July 2025. Click here for more information about abstract submission.

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