Panel Schedule

March 21st, Saturday

9:00Opening session

09:30Made in Bio

  • Ana Couto: Nutricional strategies to improve fish health
  • Rui Miguel da Costa Martins: Reagent-less point-of-care technology: The role of artificial intelligence in blood analysis

11:00Coffee Break

11:30Engineering Life

  • Susana Magalhães: Roundtable Moderator
  • Pilar Valinhas Morais: Speaker
  • Helena Ferreira: Speaker
  • Nuno Azevedo: Speaker
  • Vasco Dias: Speaker

13:00Lunch

14:30Do the Connections

  • Isabel Veiga: Gene editing to decipher malaria drug response
  • Willy Verstraete: Sustainable feed and food by safe microbial biomes
  • Rodney Guimarães: Bridging the gap: technology for equity in health

16:00Coffee Break

16:30Speed Networking

17:00Dead Men do Tell Tales

  • Luísa V. Lopes: The Aging Brain as an Innovation Challenge: New Pathways for Therapeutic Discovery
  • Pedro Pissara: Interventions for healthy ageing across the lifespan
  • Rudi Tielemans: Enabling healthy aging by monitoring vitality capacity

19:00Social Dinner

March 22nd, Sunday

09:00The Edge of Impossible

  • Diogo Mosqueira: Crossing borders: From academic research towards big pharma
  • Eduardo Pinho: Industry baby! My leap from Biological Engineering to a Biopharma CDMO.
  • Catarina Lopes: The Bioengineer's role in shaping the future of medical devices and education

10:30Coffee Break

11:00Speed Networking + Poster

14:00From Hypothesis to Headline

  • João Cortinhas: Unlocking new therapies for neurodevelopmental diseases: The role of patient-derived cell models
  • Ziva Cooper: Cannabis: Pathway to health, placebo, or peril?
  • Patricio Riva Posse: Deep brain stimulation - targeting neural circuits to treat depression

11:30Science Under 5'

12:30Lunch

16:30Start Up Lab

  • Sónia Ferreira: BestHealth4U presentation
  • João Afonso Pereira: How 3 bioengineers founded a pet food company
  • Célia Cruz: From bioengeneering to complear

16:30Coffee Break

17:00Speed Networking

18:10Closing session