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PharmaCamp 2024

From Laboratory Findings to Industry Innovations

Compete with other young professionals and students in a pharmaceutical case challenge. Show your skills to leading pharmaceutical companies in Switzerland and win the award!

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When? 

11th-13th September 2024 

 

Where?

At the Swiss Institute for Translational

and Entrepreneurial Medicine (Sitem Insel), Bern

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ABOUT US

 

PharmaCamp is an organization that aims to connect pharmaceutical and biotech companies with top talents in Switzerland by arranging whole day networking events. These events typically attract graduates, PhDs and PostDoc scientists who are eager to explore career paths outside of academia and engage with industry leaders.

Who can participate? PhDs, PostDocs, last year master's students and recent graduates

Three days event: 

·       Day 1: Open for the public, giving you a chance to learn more about new trends such as the personalised & precision medicine field. As attendees, you will gain valuable insights into the evolving landscape of the pharmaceutical industry and the intersection of technology and medicine. 

·       Day 2: Selected participants will engage in a realistic case challenge from pharmaceutical companies. Register via the Google form in the "Apply now" button, to have the opportunity to gain valuable insights, into the pharmaceutical field and to enhance your public speaking abilities.

·     Day 3: Teams will be given time to brainstorm and prepare their presentations. Each team will have the chance to convince an expert panel that their solution is the most impactful and promising. 

Awards
 

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Winning Team

2 000 CHF

The Best Presenter

Award

250 CHF

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The Social Media

Engagement Award

250 CHF

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Industry Visit 

September 3rd :

Registrations are close

September 17th :

Registrations are close

Schedule

DAY 1     Open for the public

Wednesday, 11th of September 2024

Felix Frey Auditorium, Sitem-insel, Freiburgstrasse 3, 3010 Bern

9:00 – 9:30 

Registration

9:30 – 9:40 

Event introduction

9:40 – 10:15

Talk

Innovative Tech for Gender Equity in Healthcare – Balancing Hope and Challenges

Dr. Samantha Paoletti 

Head of Research and Business Development for Life Science Technologies at CSEM

10:15 – 10:50

Talk

How CSL is committed to innovation throughout the whole R&D process to identify suitable novel therapies for patients with unmet medical needs

Dr. Max Corbett

Head of Chemical Product Development at CSL Behring

Dr. Alexander Schaub

Associate Director, Co-Lead Translational Research at CSL Behring

10:50 – 11:20

Coffee break

11:20 – 11:55

11:55 – 12:25

Drugging unprecedented targets: where to start?

Dr. Fabian Sesterhenn

Lab head in Discovery Sciences at Novartis Biomedical Research

Talk

Talk

TBD

Dr. Burcak Yesildag 

Vice President, Islet Biology at InSphero

12:25 – 14:00

Lunch break

14:00 – 14:45

Drug Development from bench to bedside (and how to transition to the industry after your studies)

Keynote talk

Dr. Markus Kalousek

Lecturer at ETH Zürich; Venture Partner at BioGeneration Ventures; former Head of External Innovation (S&E) for Novartis

14:45 – 15:20

Poorly soluble Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients and enabling technologies

Talk

Dr. Arnaud Grandeury

Associate Director in Materials Science Novartis Leading ScientistLead of TRD academic network

15:20 – 15:50

Coffee break

Developing advanced in vitro human models for preclinical drug discovery

Talk</