Past Events
Discover below the 50+ events organised over the last 8 years by DMI, in formats which include site visits, workshops, leaders' lunches and company seminars. Invited companies have ranged from pre-seed start-ups to established pharmaceutical and consulting firms, as well as from industrial to financial players.
Novartis (company seminar)
- Theme: scientific writing • regulatory affairs • clinical trials
- Speakers: Sydney Geissler (Senior Regulatory Writer), Selen Manioglu (Clinical Sciences & Innovation Academy Fellow)
- Date: 21.11.2024
Roche (company seminar)
- Theme: technical operations • manufacturing • digital strategy
- Speakers: Floris Burgering (Global Manufacturing Network Program and Risk Manager), Jakob Joachim (Digital Strategy Delivery Lead)
- Date: 30.10.2024
Owkin (company seminar)
- Theme: causal AI • histomics • multi-omics
- Speakers: Eric Durand (Chief Data Science Officer), Lucie Gillet (Director of Histomics)
- Date: 09.10.2024
Roche (company seminar)
- Theme: diagnostics • points of care • product life cycle
- Speakers: Stine Bertram (Lifecycle Leader Point of Care Roche Diagnostics), Sandra Leber (Global Operations Functional Lead for Blood Gas)
- Date: 25.09.2024
dsm-firmenich (company seminar)
- Theme: intellectual property • regulatory affairs • operational excellence
- Speakers: Alexandra Wiesler (IP Counsel), Alejandro Rodriguez Pupo (Global Regulatory Affairs Manager), Patrizia Spoerri (Global Manager Supply Chain Engineering)
- Date: 18.04.2024
Cradle (company seminar)
- Theme: iterative protein design • uncertainty quantification • generative ML
- Speakers: Stef van Grieken (Co-founder and CEO), Eli Bixby (Co-founder and ML Lead), Jonathan Ziegler (ML Scientist), Patrick Kidger (ML Scientist), Wallis Margraff (Global Partnership Manager)
- Date: 27.03.2024
InterAx (company seminar)
- Theme: systems biology • drug discovery • clinical trial derisking
- Speakers: Aurélien Rizk (Co-founder and CEO), Yaroslav Nikolaev (CTO)
- Date: 26.03.2024
Renera (side-by-side company seminar)
- Theme: renewable energy • energy transition • consultancy
- Speakers: Tamino Weggler (Project Manager Operations), Sabina Gonçalves (Solar Panel Team Member)
- Date: 21.03.2024
Yeastup (side-by-side company seminar)
- Theme: upcycling • ingredients • vegan protein
- Speakers: Sandra Martinek (Research Scientist)
- Date: 21.03.2024
Biovision (side-by-side company seminar)
- Theme: agroecology • organic agriculture • responsible consumption
- Speakers: Loredana Sorg (Topic Lead for Development Project and Program Responsability)
- Date: 21.03.2024
ETH Sustainability Office (side-by-side company seminar)
- Theme: net zero roadmap • research decarbonization • SDG
- Speakers: Sebastian Kahlert (Sustainability Manager)
- Date: 21.03.2024
Fritz Gyger (company seminar)
- Theme: automation • liquid dispenser • micro valves
- Speakers: Boris Maurer (Head of Service, Member of the Board), Sabrina Dällenbach (Head of Sales, Member of the Board)
- Date: 28.02.2024
dsm-firmenich (side-by-side company seminar)
- Theme: personalised nutrition • checkpoint inhibitors • microbiome trends
- Speakers: Tim Mak (Principal Scientist EMEA)
- Date: 31.01.2024
T3 Pharma (side-by-side company seminar)
- Theme: solid tumors • bacterial drug delivery • clinical trials
- Speakers: Simon Ittig (Co-founder and CEO)
- Date: 31.01.2024
plusbiome (side-by-side company seminar)
- Theme: precision probiotics • immuno-oncology • strategic pivot
- Speakers: Julia Biwer (Co-founder and CEO)
- Date: 31.01.2024
Acino (company seminar)
- Theme: venture capital • scientific founders • deep tech
- Speakers: Martin Valks (Head of Out-Licensing), Patrick Frey (Head of Contract Manufacturing)
- Date: 10.01.2024
Flagship Pionnering (company seminar)
- Theme: venture building • bioplatforms • mRNA vaccines
- Speakers: Alicia Kaestli (Senior Associate), Sara Dionisi (Associate), Alex Chivu (Associate), Dalit Engelhardt (Associate)
- Date: 12.12.2023
MaxWell Biosystems (leaders' lunch)
- Theme: entrepreneurship • electrogenic cells • neurosciences
- Speakers: Urs Frey (CEO), Jerome Zemp (Senior R&D Engineer), Vijay Viswam (R&D Project Manager), Silvia Ronchi (Scientific Application Specialist)
- Date: 12.12.2023
Roche (workshop)
- Theme: pre-clinical research • data science • project management
- Speakers: Damian Roqueiro (Senior Scientist), Kathleen Moriarty (Real-World Data Adoption Lead), Katarzyna Koscielska (Senior Quantitative Scientist)
- Date: 08.03.2023
MSD (company seminar)
- Theme: statistics • health technology assessment • health economics
- Speakers: Brian Lang (Senior Statistician), Deborah Chiavi (Statistician)
- Date: 08.11.2023
Novartis (leaders' lunch)
- Theme: in vitro models • microphysiology • drug development
- Speakers: Patrick Misun (Principal Scientist)
- Date: 18.10.2023
Novartis (company seminar)
- Theme: drug discovery • clinical safety • recruitment
- Speakers: Alexa Neuhäuser (Business Partner University Relations), Florian Nigsch (Director Data Science), Uwe Schuehly (Senior Global Product Safety Team Lead)
- Date: 27.09.2023
Wilbe (company seminar)
- Theme: venture capital • scientific founders • deep tech
- Speakers: Devika Thapar (COO, Co-Founder), Thejas Nagaraju (Talent and Venture Associate)
- Date: 21.09.2023
CSEM (site visit)
- Theme: single-cell technologies • automation • spatial omics
- Speakers: Felix Kurth (Group Leader “Biosystems Engineering”), Moritz Kirschmann (Group Leader “AI for Life Sciences”), Philipp Rottmann (Senior R&D Engineer)
- Date: 26.08.2022
Bottneuro (side-by-side company seminar)
- Theme: Alzheimer • brain stimulation • medical devices
- Speakers: Alois Hopf (Chief Scientific Officer, Co-Founder), Shane Feng (Chief Product Officer)
- Date: 10.05.2023
Transgene (side-by-side company seminar)
- Theme: therapeutic vaccine • oncolytic viruses • clinical trials
- Speakers: Sylvain Robin (Project Manager), Caroline Schenkels (Analytical Lead), Maxime Soré (Business Analyst), Amélie Wendling (HR Assistant)
- Date: 10.05.2023
Roche (leaders' lunch)
- Theme: pre-clinical research • oncology • drug development
- Speakers: Leo Kunz (Principal Scientist)
- Date: 05.05.2023
Novartis (site visit)
- Theme: clinical research • clinical trials • commercialisation
- Speakers: Phillipp Bless (Senior Study Operations Manager), Havana Chikoto (Global Trial Director), Yvonne Geissbühler (Director Real World Evidence and Innovative Evidence), Pieter Proot (Clinical Development Functional Head), Céline Risterucci (Senior Clinical Development Director), Cornelis Winnips (Global Program Clinical Head)
- Date: 21.04.2023
Novartis (site visit)
- Theme: pre-clinical research • automation • data science
- Speakers: David Beauparlant (Principal Scientist), Dominic Höpfner (Principal Scientist), Matthias Müller (Senior Research Investigator), Attila Regös (Team Leader Automation), Julian Rothen (Senior Expert in Data Science)
- Date: 21.04.2023
Roche (leaders' lunch)
- Theme: pre-clinical research • oncology • drug development
- Speakers: Nikolche Gjorevski (Group Leader)
- Date: 15.03.2023
Roche (company seminar)
- Theme: pre-clinical research • oncology • drug development
- Speakers: Leo Kunz (Principal Scientist)
- Date: 08.03.2023
Swiss Federal Office of Public Health (company seminar)
- Theme: Covid-19 • health policy • chemical regulation
- Speakers: Viktoria Gloy (Scientific Associate, Health Technology Assessment), Goedele van Haasteren (Deputy Section Head, Health Technology Assessment), Samantha Doninelli (Scientific Associate, Registration Office Chemicals)
- Date: 13.12.2022
LYO-X (company seminar)
- Theme: modelling • quantitative systems pharmacology • drug development
- Speakers: Matthis Machacek (Managing Director), Jannik Vollmer (Systems Pharmacology Modeller)
- Date: 22.11.2022
CSEM (company seminar)
- Theme: RTO • Precision Manufacturing • Digital Technologies
- Speakers: Felix Kurth (Group Leader “Biosystems Engineering”), Philipp Rottmann (Senior R&D Engineer), Francesca Luongo (PhD Student)
- Date: 26.10.2022
Vector BioPharma (company seminar)
- Theme: gene therapy • entrepreneurship • recruitment
- Speakers: Lorenz Mayr (CEO), Nicole Kirchhammer (Associate Director)
- Date: 18.07.2022
All Institutes Career Event (company seminar)
- Theme: career paths • industrial management • scientific communications
- Date: 08.06.2022
Boston Consulting Group (company seminar)
- Theme: management consulting • Swiss life sciences landscape • recruitment
- Speakers: David Greber (Managing Director & Partner, Lead Health Care Switzerland), Ludwig Ruder (Consultant), Michaela Wirth (Senior Recruiter)
- Date: 16.03.2022
Novartis (company seminar)
- Theme: medical affairs • stakeholders engagement • science advocacy
- Speakers: Arnaud Monnard (Medical Science Liaison)
- Date: 17.11.2021
Roche (company seminar)
- Theme: clinical sciences • clinical trials • clinical research
- Speakers: Maitea Guridi (Senior Clinical Scientist), Angeliki Thanasopoulou (Senior Clinical Scientist)
- Date: 06.10.2021
Carl Emerson (company seminar)
- Theme: relationship management • transition to industry • self-management
- Speakers: Carl Emerson (Facilitator, Trainer, Senior Advisor: HBA Ambassador program, and IMPACT Group Coach)
- Date: 05.05.2021
Visium (company seminar)
- Theme: AI • data strategy consulting • educational workshop
- Speakers: Matteo Togninalli (Chief Operations Officer), Fady Sader (People Opeartions Management)
- Date: 16.03.2021
All Institutes Career Event (company seminar)
- Theme: venture capital • scientific illustration • IP
- Speakers: Christoph Bieri (VI Partners), Arnaud Monnard (Novartis), Bärbel Tress (Tress Academy), Julian Freen-van Heeren (Exerpta Medica), Carolyn Trepp (Roche), Marcel Janse (ZieHoe), Olivia O'Leary (Roche), Damiano Urbinello (MSD)
- Date: 03.03.2021
Flagship Pioneering (company seminar)
- Theme: venture capital • entrepreneurship • fellowship program
- Speakers: Charlotte Nicod (Associate)
- Date: 20.01.2021
Novartis (company seminar)
- Theme: cell and gene therapy • plasmid and virus manufacturing • analytics
- Speakers: Cornelius Fritsch (Senior Cell and Gene Therapy Analytical Lead), Caterina Lo Presti (Team Head Viral Vectors Process Development), Stephan Kirsch (Head DS Development Cell and Gene Therapy)
- Date: 29.09.2020
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (company seminar)
- Theme: global health • poverty eradication • education
- Speakers: Sindura Ganapathi (Deputy Director, Global Health Program), Hans-Georg Höllerer (Program Officer, Global Health Advocacy & Innovation)
- Date: 14.07.2020
Genedata (company seminar)
- Theme: interview preparation • pharamaceutical industry • data science
- Speakers: Natalya Izergina (Recruiter at Genedata, Founder of Recruiters Advice)
- Date: 29.04.2020
DSM (company seminar)
- Theme: nutrition • large-scale chemical operations • supply chain
- Speakers: Alex Karagiannis (Biostatistician at the Nutrition Innovation Center), Patrizia Spoerri (Corporate Operations Analyst for Operations & Responsible Care), Jasmine Bracher (Supply Chain Management Engineer in the Nutritional Products Business Group), Hiliary Rademacher (Program Manager Global Talent Acquisition)
- Date: 26.02.2020
Pall Biotech (company seminar)
- Theme: Ebola vaccines • bioprocessing • gene therapy
- Speakers: Michale Brauchle (Scientist II in the Purification Team), Kevin Dubs (Account Manager), Thomas Aberle (Biopharmaceuticals Sales)
- Date: 29.01.2020
Basel Area (company seminar)
- Theme: innovation in Basel • entrepreneurship • idea to business
- Speakers: Irene Wüthrich (Spherobiotics), Enkelejda Miho (FHNW), Oskari Vinko (UniteLabs), Christian Vogler (Advancience), Simon Ittig (T3 Pharma)
- Date: 09.12.2019
All Institutes Career Event (company seminar)
- Theme: clinical sciences • consulting • asset management
- Speakers: Barbara Heim-Kupr (Universitätsspital Basel), Maitea Guridi (Roche), Ella Dehghani (Ernst & Young), Ignacio Fernandez-Garcia (Roche), Romeo Bütler (Verve Ventures)
- Date: 27.11.2019
Novartis (site visit)
- Theme: pharmacokinetic sciences • innovative lab design • lead discovery
- Speakers: Reto Näf (Prime Force Consultant)
- Date: 21.11.2019
Addgene (company seminar)
Theme: NGO • reagent sharing • women in science
Speakers: Joanne Kamens (Executive Director)
Date: 11.09.2019
Sun Bioscience (company seminar)
- Theme: spin-off • disease models • personalized medicine
- Speakers: Nathalie Brandenberg (COO, Co-founder)
- Date: 22.05.2019
MaxWell Biosystems (company seminar)
- Theme: spin-off • cell-based assays • preclinical drug discovery
- Speakers: Michele Fiscella (VP Scientific Affairs), Marie Engelene Obien (VP Sales & Marketing, Co-founder)
- Date: 24.04.2019
Omnes Capital (company seminar)
- Theme: venture capital • infrastructure • drug development
- Speakers: Claire Poulard (Principal in Healthcare)
- Date: 23.01.201
Roche (site visit)
- Theme: industrial research • drug development • target confirmation
- Date: 12.12.2018
All Institutes Career Event (company seminar)
- Theme: digital health • marketing • neurosciences
- Speakers: Czuee Morey (wega Informatik), Roy Turner (Actelion), Helen Clark (Novartis), Simon Badoud (Novartis), Jonas Dorn (Novartis)
- Date: 08.11.2018
Basler & Hofmann (company seminar)
- Theme: biowarfare • bioterrorism • biocrime
- Speakers: Felix Gmünder (Senior Biosafety & Biosecurity Expert)
- Date: 07.11.2018
Twist Bioscience (company seminar)
- Theme: DNA synthesis • DNA data storage • agriculture
- Speakers: Emily Leproust (CEO, Co-founder, Director)
- Date: 05.09.2018
Roche (company seminar)
- Theme: partnering • external innovation • business development
- Speakers: Henry Maun (Associate Director), Esther Melo Herraiz (Global Business Development Manager), Dagmar Mohr (Project Leader)
- Date: 18.07.2018
BRAIN (company seminar)
- Theme: taste buds • human taste • natural response measurement
- Speakers: Christiane Gras (Project Manager)
- Date: 13.06.2018
Actelion (company seminar)
- Theme: translational science • process engineering • recruitment
- Date: 23.03.2018
KPMG (company seminar)
- Theme: AI • life sciences 2030 • mobile healthcare
- Speakers: Claudio Boller (Head of Audit Basel, Regional Market Leader), Martin Rohrbach (Head of Life Sciences), Alberto Zampella (Assurance Technology Group), Robin Wirz (KPMG Mobile Solutions)
- Date: 17.01.2018
All Institutes Career Event (company seminar)
- Theme: scientific liaison • industrial processes • quality assessment
- Speakers: Trui Haemmerli (TruStep Consulting), Anna Pham (Novartis), Stefan Hahnewald (CSL Behring), Valerio Pece (Roche), Barbara Pisan Ham (IQVIA)
- Date: 14.11.2017
ETH Biotech Alumni (company seminar)
- Theme: community buildling • innovation • biostatistics
- Speakers: Nico Beerenwinkel (ETH), Marc Gitzinger (Bioversys), Juliane Siebourg (Roche), Sebastian Bürgel (Validity Labs)
- Date: 11.10.2017
T3 Pharmaceuticals (company seminar)
- Theme: spin-off • bacterial protein delivery • solid tumors
- Speakers: Simon Ittig (CEO, Co-founder)
- Date: 28.09.2017
Clariant (company seminar)
- Theme: cellulosic ethanol • second generation biofuels • energy transition
- Speakers: Ralf Hortsch (Head of Operations Biofuels & Derivatives), David Kaufmann (Manager International Communications), Anne Maier (Manager of Corporate & GTI Communications)
- Date: 11.09.2017
Swiss Association of Pharmaceutical Professionals (company seminar)
- Theme: healthcare data • safe storage • regulatory affairs
- Speakers: Daniela Gunz (Director of Research Partnerships), Marc Schmid (Regulatory Affairs)
- Date: 12.06.2017
Roche (company seminar)
- Theme: industrial postdoc • parental formulation • packaging development
- Speakers: Monica de Bardi (Postdoctoral Fellow), Christoph Grapentin (Postdoctoral Fellow), Johanna Poecheim (Postdoctoral Fellow), Juraj Sibik (Process Analytics Scientist)
- Date: 27.04.2017
Basel Area (company seminar)
- Theme: licensing deal • money raising • team recruitment
- Speakers: Stephan Emmerth (Business Development)
- Date: 23.03.2017
FGen (company seminar)
- Theme: spin-off • high throughput screening • CRO
- Speakers: Andreas Meyer (CEO, Co-founder)
- Date: 01.03.2017
Novartis (company seminar)
- Theme: poster presentation • networking lunch • research transfer
- Date: 25.11.2016
BCG (company seminar)
- Theme: management consulting • healthcare • pharamaceuticals
- Speakers: Ulrik Schulze (Managing Director)
- Date: 23.11.2016
Business Angels Switzerland (company seminar)
- Theme: corporate marketing • investor relations • investment
- Speakers: Carole Ackermann (President)
- Date: 24.10.2016
InSphero (company seminar)
- Theme: spin-off • entrepreneurship • scaffold-free microtissues
- Speakers: Jan Lichtenberg (CEO)
- Date: 07.09.2016
Novartis (company seminar)
- Theme: NIBR • computational biology • translational research
- Speakers: Sabina Pfister (Computational Biologist), James Rush (Senior Scientist and Translational immunologist)
- Date: 18.08.2016
Roche (site visit)
- Theme: networking lunch • industrial research • drug development
- Date: 02.06.2016
McKinsey (company seminar)
- Theme: public sector consulting • healthcare • pharmaceuticals
- Speakers: Boris Bogdan (Associate Principal)
- Date: 02.05.2016
Stiftung Benefit (company seminar)
- Theme: private plan • financial planning • risk mitigation
- Date: 27.04.2016
ETH Career Center (workshop)
- Theme: interview preparation • industry transition • industrial postdoc
- Speakers: Martin Ghisletti (Head of ETH Career Center)
- Date: 19.01.2016
Roche (company seminar)
- Theme: quality management • industrial operations • industry standards
- Speakers: Alexander Sterchi (Department Head Infrastructure and Materials Management)
- Date: 03.12.2015
Novartis (company seminar)
- Theme: NIBR • computational biology • industrial research
- Speakers: Audrey Kauffmann (Bioinformatics Group Leader in Oncology), Grainne Kerr (Bioinformatics Analyst)
- Date: 26.10.2015