SPEAKERS 2026

Laura Heitman
Chair

Dutch Medicines Days

Klaas Poelstra
Chair

FIGON

Annemieke Aartsma-Rus
Professor of Translational Genetics

LUMC

Luc Brunsveld
Professor of Chemical Biology

TU Eindhoven

Conny Helder
Former Minister VWS, Chair

Health Holland & FAST

Adam Stoten
SVP Head of Academic Partnerships

Evotec

Karla van Rooijen
Director of Pharmaceuticals and Medical Technology

VWS

Hans Schikan
Former Top Team Member, Chairman, Board Member

Health~Holland

Cedric Lau
Hospital Pharmacist

Scheldezoom Farmacie

Laura de Jong
Postdoctoral Researcher

LUMC

Lisa Davies
Lecturer & Researcher

Utrecht University | Trimbos Institute

Jeffrey Bajramovic
Senior Lecturer

3Rs Centre Utrecht |
Utrecht University

Ester Weijers
CEO

Ntrans Technologies

Juliëtte van den Noort
Experienced Clinical Scientist & PhD Candidate

CHDR / LUMC

Willem Jespers
Assistant Professor Computer Aided Drug Discovery

University of Groningen

Simone Hermans
Program Coordinator LifeSciences@Work

Health~Holland

 Stijn Koolen

Hospital Pharmacist–Clinical Pharmacologist and Associate Professor

Erasmus MC

Luc Derijks

Hospital Pharmacist and Clinical Pharmacologist and Assistant Professor 

MUMC

Rob ter Heine

Hospital Pharmacist and Clinical Pharmacologist 

Radboudumc

Anne Sinke

Senior Director Medical Affairs 

Gilead Sciences BENELUX

 Geert Jan Groeneveld

CEO

CHDR

Sipko Mülder

Director

CCMO

Bart Scheerder

Chairman 

DCRF

Sabien van der Schoot

Program Director InFECT-TT

InFECT-NL

Menno Hoekstra

Assistant Professor

LACDR

Miranda van Eck

Professor & Scientific Director

LACDR

Rob van Wijk

Assistant Professor

LACDR

Vahid Sheikhhassani

Biophysicist

LACDR

Tessel Rigter

Principal Investigator

Amsterdam UMC

Karim Rafie

Assistant Professor

University of Groningen

Marta Arimont

Senior Computational Chemist

 SandboxAQ

Chris Schafer

Assistant Professor

VU Amsterdam

Aldo Grefhorst

Research Associate

Amsterdam UMC

Monique Mulder

Head of the Laboratory of Vascular Medicine

Erasmus MC

Marinus Bouma

Business Developer

Ofichem

Marco de Boer

Chief Business Officer 

Biotech Booster

Hans van Eenennaam

CEO & co-founder, Chief Scientific Officer

IMMIOS, STANT & Sairopa

Ingrid Dijkgraaf

Professor of Biomimetic Chemistry

Maastricht University 

Natasha Tahir

PhD Candidate

Leiden University

Lourens Bloem

Assistant Professor 

Utrecht University

Merlijn van Rijswijk

Member of the Management Team

Health-RI

Rogier Buijsman

CEO

Crossfire Oncology

Julia Houthuijzen

Researcher & Team Leader

Netherlands Cancer Institute

Florencia Linero

Senior Scientist

Anacura

Doerine Postma

Researcher & Data Professional

Dutch Foundation for Pharmaceutical Statistics

Mette Heringa

Director

SIR Institute

Maaike Rutten

Hospital Pharmacist

Erasmus MC

Floris Hamel

Teamlead for the Lifesciences & MedTech Venture Development and Invest Team 

BOM

Mirjam Huizenga

Postdoctoral Researcher

Leiden University

Nathaniel Martin

Chair of Biological Chemistry

Leiden University

Mario van der Stelt

Professor of Molecular Physiology 

Leiden University

Michel van Agthoven

Head J&J Campus The Netherlands & Director External Affairs Netherlands

Johnson & Johnson

Esther Peters

Director

Leiden Bio Science Park

Tamara Mocking

Postdoctoral Researcher

LACDR

Marina Trombetta Lima

Assistant Professor

University of Groningen

Marlies Reinders

Professor, Member of the Executive Board & Dean

LUMC / Leiden University

Valentyna Starodub

Founder and CEO

Starodub

Céline Brochot

Head of Mechanistic Modelling

CERTARA

Erwin van Wijk

Associate Professor 

Radboudumc

Suzanne Yzer

Ophthalmologist & Clinician‑scientist

Radboudumc

Harita Yedavally

Senior Life Sciences Consultant

FFUND

Siebe Warnars

Health and Life Sciences Consultant

FFUND

Anne Kienhuis

Professor of Toxicology in Transition & Senior Scientist

Utrecht University | RIVM

Justin van der Heemst

Business Development Director

Biotech Training Facility

Mirjam Heemskerk

Professor & Head of the Laboratory of Experimental Hematology

LUMC

Diana van der Graaf-Harris

Training & Learning Site Lead 

Johnson & Johnson

Achi Haider

Translational DMPK-PD Project Leader

Roche

Emily Rayner

Scientist

TNO

Matthias Barz

Professor for BioTherapeutic Delivery

LACDR

Selma Pereira Lopes 

Director Head of Drug Product Development

Johnson & Johnson

Adinda Diekstra

Program Manager Lifelong Learning 

HAN_University of Applies Sciences

Carlien Verberne 

Program Manager BioCentre 

HAN_University of Applies Sciences

Thijs Remijn

Project Leader Human Capital

Leiden Bio Science Park

Aike Jeucken 

Coordinator Lifelong Learning 

Pivot Park

Martijn Nolte

Senior Program Manager

ZonMw

Ed Moret

Associate Professor

UIPS

Jesse Swen

Professor of Clinical Pharmacy

LUMC

Carla Hollak

Professor of Medicines and Society

University of Amsterdam

Laurence Maes

Lead Biotech Strategy

Johnson & Johnson

Steffie Peters

Medical Physics Expert

Radboudumc

Audrey Derobertmasure

Clinical Pharmacist and Pharmacologist 

Paris Cité University | European Georges-Pompidou Hospital 

Martine Smit

Professor of Target and Systems Biochemistry

VU Amsterdam

Geurt Stokman

Program Manager Efficient Drug Development

TNO

Sven Stielstra

Program Manager

LIFE Capital

Mathijs de Kleer

Project Manager

NewAmsterdam Pharma

Gali Lesuisse

Senior Vice President International Markets 

Pharming Group

Ann Hoeben

Medical Oncologist

MUMC+

Mike de Leeuw

CEO & Founder

OncoLize B.V.

Joost Kreijtz

CEO

Trained Therapeutix Discovery

Teun van Gelder

Internist-nephrologist / Clinical pharmacologist

LUMC

Kolja Adamczyk

European Patent Attorney and member of Pharma team

NLO-Ipsilon

Karin Ruijtenbeek

Regulatory Project Leader 

Radboudumc