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All the BioFIT team wishes you a happy, healthy and inspiring 2016,

full of successful projects and collaborations!

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 The final program is now available !

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In total, at BioFIT and its hosted events 1,150 participants from 31 countries will meet on November 30th, December 1st & 2nd.  700 participants are already registered on the partnering platform and have been very active lately:  8,000 meeting requests sent, more than 1,500 are scheduled. Our 70 renowned  international speakers make last preparations for their upcoming debates, 85 exhibitors are getting ready to welcome you at their stands and dedicated areas.  BioFIT 2015 promises to be the last meeting not to be missed in 2015!

We  wish you a safe trip to Strasbourg and we will see you very soon!

In order to foster alliances and business development opportunities on innovative projects, you could discover during BioFIT:

• Nearly 100 posters at the Poster Area & in parallel with the round tables and the partnering activity, 36 participants will have the chance to give a short presentation  of their technology.

                                        Cardio metabolic diseases

Devices and Imaging

                            Infectious diseases and Vaccines

      Immunology and Oncology

Do not forget to set your unvailabilities on PartneringOne to attend the presentation stream you’re interested in!

Discover all the posters.

Discover the agenda of the projects selected to pitch.

BioFIT 2015 is approaching fast

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already more than 2,000 meeting requests have been sent!

This increasing number promises an amazing business effervescence

for the first BioFIT edition in Strasbourg!

The first scheduling round is planned on November 20th.

Don’t miss your chance to meet your potential future partners: send meeting requests and answer the incoming ones!

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Plenary session speaker Alexander Von Gabain shared inspiring thoughts on his professional path and on the future of Life Sciences

Vice-Chancellor for Innovation and Corporate Alliances at Karolinska Institute, Alexander Von Gabain is responsible for identifying, fostering and coordinating opportunities in research, health care, education, business outreach, investment and entrepreneurship leading towards an increased innovation output from the Karolinska Institute.

 

1. You are Vice-Chancellor for Innovation and Corporate Alliances at Karolinska Institute, a world-famous medical research institute and you have an interesting professional career, going from research to biotech industry and back to academia. What led you through this path?

I am a very curious person and I like to learn, even from people who are outside of my specialized field. I was eager to learn from others, to see new horizons, outside of the scientific world, e.g the entrepreneurial  world striving into always new enterprises. And now I return to the university world, because all that knowledge that I’ve been gathering,  I may return to my academic colleagues with whom I can share my learnings . There is always more than one  path in life:  in the first one I got more and more specialized in one field, and I did this, when I was a scientist for decades, but when I was in my 40s I left my chair to start a company and took the second path that is going outside of my  comfort zone and realized there is always a horizon behind, motivating me to go even a step further. Now my ambition is to convert the Karolinska into an entrepreneurial university.

 

2. Based on this particular background, how do you think academia and industry dialogue can be improved in order to foster innovation?

By creating permanent exchange and ecosystems where industry and academia come together and change education towards more frankness and openness towards innovation and entrepreneurship at the university.

 

3. How do you see the Life Sciences sector in 10 years ? Which evolutions do you think will take place? What do you wish to see happen?

Innovation will be in open innovation systems where industry, small companies, academia, financial players like seed capital, venture capital, regulatory and health insurances will come together and create innovation hubs where most innovations will take place. This is what is already happening in the larger areas of Boston, Washington, in the Silicon Valley or South California. However I feel that big Pharma will have to seek a new role. They will no longer be the only driver of basic innovation; they’ll be forced to provide evidence based healthcare services to healthcare providers. What we expect from big Pharma is not just selling treatments and pills, we rather expect them to provide healthcare packages to hospitals, to practitioners and others involved in healthcare. They will be the people that deliver discoveries to patients and customers. Healthcare delivery will become a future target for Pharma! It’s my prediction, but also my vision!

 

4. Who/what inspires you?

What inspires me most, is to deliver improvement of life quality back to people. I think there is nothing better to experience , whether you are manager, scientist or VC, not to get  stuck to a too narrow view. The best thing is to see,  if the field in which you are working can improve people’s life on earth.

 

5. What would be your advice to researchers that seek to establish collaborations with the industry in the Life Sciences industry?

If you are not interested in sharing your ideas yourself, allow other actors to pick them up to go back to people. I don’t want to convert every basic researcher into becoming an entrepreneur, but I would say that all basic researchers should see that there is a kind of moral burden of getting their research results back to people. That can’t be done without the industry, and if you approach industry, do it in collaboration with people who have been working within the interface between industry and academia.

 

6. In BioFIT you are one out the Plenary Session’s panelists debating on “Who drives innovation in Life Sciences : academia or industry?” why should BioFIT audience attend this session?

BioFIT and specially the plenary session are providing the complete perspective of the various points of views, you need to take into account, if you are trying to allow interactions between the partners of the knowledge triangle. It is what both research and customers need. During the panel discussion, you get the chance to learn about all these different perspectives.

 

7. What are, in your opinion, the 3 words that describes BioFIT ?

Catalyst, mediator and mover.

BioFIT catalyses new relationships between people, while mediating people with different backgrounds, how to talk to each other.

 

 

Want to know more on BioFIT 2015 conference program ? Check the full agenda!

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As the saying goes, every land has its own law. This also applies to VCs and investors over the world. Let’s tackle with our panel of experts whether investors perceive risks in the same way in different regions of the globe. On which criteria they invest and what are their expectations?

 

Not only will we have the pleasure to get the VCs point of views according to the continent they are working in, but also get the opportunity to have a Biotech advocacy! 

Here are your panelists : 

Modeartor;

• Breit Gary, Principal, BREIT IDEAS, USA

Speakers:

• Huang Yenchen, Senior Assistant Vice President, DIAMOND BIOFUND, TAIWAN
• Veillet Stanislas, CEO, BIOPHYTIS, FR
• Nunez Garcia Sara, Senior Associate, SOFINNOVA PARTNERS, FR
• Leconte Didier, Senior Director, Investments, Life Sciences, FONDS DE SOLIDARITE FTQ, CA

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The partnering platform is now open!

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You could meet during BioFIT:

• Pharma & biotech companies: Pfizer, Servier, Amgen, Janssen R&D, Merck, Lilly, Ceva, Johnson & Johnson Innovation, Genfit, Transgène, Menarini, Ipsen innovation…
• Academia & TTOs: Aalborg university hospital, Ascenion, CEA, Inpi, Inra, Inserm, Curie Institut, Iocb TTO, Max planck institute, Mcgill university, Radboud university medical center, SATT network, Ugent – discovere, Antwerp University, etc…
• Investors, law firms and consulting companies: Absiskey, Alma consulting, Breit ideas, De gaulle fleurance & associés, Diamond biofund, Erdyn, Index ventures, Kurma partners, Mishcon de reya, Sofinnova partners…

And many others! Check the full participants’ list.

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Scheduled on December 1^st at 4pm., this is one of the many sessions that we are already looking forward to attending this winter at BioFIT 2015!

Moderated by the SATT Network president, this session will feature profile as diverse as they are interesting, and will therefore create the perfect emulation to exchange on the hot topic that is financing innovation.

 

Not only will this session feature Technology Transfer Specialist, but will also have the pleasure to welcome an association, 2 venture capital deeply involved in early stage and a university involved subsidiary: do you have an idea of who that perfect mix could be ?

 

Here they are, discover the heavy-league panel that we will have the pleasure to see debating:

• Chairman : Nicolas Carboni, president, SATT Conectus, FR
• Serge Braun, Scientific Director, AFM, FR
• Kevin McBride, Project Manager, Amorchem, CA
• Andrew Parker, Partner, Ecclosion, CH
• Paul Ashley, Deputy Head of Technology Transfer, Isis Innovation, UK

 

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Hope you already registered for BioFIT2015 and your partnering profile already filled in,

in 4 Days the partnering platform will open and the meetings requests will begin!

Ensure your visibility and be attractive with a completed profile, but most important, be on time and active from November 2nd sending out meetings requests and answering incoming ones to book up to 30 one-to-one meetings over the 2 days event and make the most of BioFIT.

STEP 1. If you’re not already, register for BioFIT.

STEP 2. Complete your profile and licensing opportunities portfolio.

STEP 3. Be ready on November 2nd sending meeting requests and answering incoming ones.

 

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