| 09h00 |
Welcome and Opening
- Luis Serrano, Director of the CRG
- Joaquim Nadal, Catalan Minister of Research & Universities
- Manel Balcells, Catalan Minister of Health
- Oriol Amat, Rector of the Universitat Pompeu Fabra
- Ignasi López, Director of the Relations with Health and Research Institutions Area, 'la Caixa' Foundation
- Jordi Camí, Director of the PRBB
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| 09h30 |
CRG 20 years' celebration
- Miguel Beato, Founder and former Director of the CRG
- Andreu Mas-Colell, President of the Barcelona Institute of Science and Technology and former Catalan Minister of Economy of the Government of Catalonia
- Carmen Vela, Director of Collaborative Projects, Gold Standards Diagnostics and former State Secretary of Research, Development and Innovation of the Spanish Government
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| 10h00 |
Scientific Talks
"Title tbc"
Speaker pending to be confirmed
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| 11h00 |
Coffee break
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| 11h30 |
"Title tbc"
Nick McCooke, RevoluGen Ltd., UK
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| 12h30 |
"Title tbc"
Hagen Tilgner, Weill Cornell’s The Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, New York, NY, US
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| 13h00 |
"Title tbc"
Maria Lluch, Pulmobiotics, Barcelona, Spain
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| 13h30 |
Lunch break
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| 15h00 |
"Title tbc"
Adrian Krainer, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, NY, US
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| 16h00 |
"Organoids to study regeneration and cancer"
Meritxell Huch, Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
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| 16h30 |
"The Src oncoprotein; from avian model systems to human disease"
Sara A. Courtneidge, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, OR, US
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| 17h30 |
Colloquium "The value of fundamental science"
Host: Xavier Aldeguer, Director General of Knowledge Society, Transfer and Territory, Dept. of Research and Universities, Government of Catalonia
Moderator: Cristina Sáez, science journalist
1st part: Short talks about the successful experience of four local entrepreneurs
- Carlos Buesa, CEO, Oryzon Genomics
- Marie-Eve Beaulieu, cofounder and Chief Scientific Officer of Peptomyc SL, spun out from VHIO
- Maria Lluch, founder and Chief Scientific Offier of Pulmobiotics, spun out from CRG, and CRG Alumni
- Salvador Aznar-Benitah, founder and Scientific Advisor of Ona Therapeutics, spunt out from IRB Barcelona, researcher at IRB Barcelona and CRG Alumni
2nd part: Debate with relevant stakeholders in the field of life sciences entrepreneurship
- Ion Arocena, Director of ASEBIO (Spanish Association of Biotech Companies)
- Carmen Vela, Director of Collaborative Projects, Gold Standards Diagnostics and former State Secretary of Research, Development and Innovation of the Spanish Government
- Joël Jean-Mairet, Managing Partner, Ysios Capital
- Bernhard Paetzold, cofounder and Chief Scienfic Officer of SBiomedic, and CRG Alumni
- Luis Serrano, Director of the CRG
- Xavier Aldeguer, Director General of Knowledge Society, Transfer and Territory, Dept. of Research and Universities, Government of Catalonia
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| 19h00 |
Closing
- Jordi Marti, Sixth Deputy Mayor, Director of the Culture, Education, Science and Community Area, Barcelona City Council
- Diana Morant, Minister of Science and Innovation, Spanish Government
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| 19h20 |
Cocktail |
CRG 20th Anniversary Symposium: The value of fundamental research