International visionary seminars are being held in Copenhagen and Stockholm

Aging with a Healthy Brain: A Vision on Bridging Research and Industry

Organised by Leuven.Inc.Supported by KU Leuven Research & Development, Leuven Mindgate and Province Vlaams-Brabant.

Monday March 7, 2016 - Copenhagen

The seminar will feature state-of-the-art presentations from academia on the topic ageing with a healthy brain combined with impact and insights from the industry. The presentations will be followed by a panel debate discussing important next steps in bridging research and industry.

Speakers

Keynote speaker will be Professor Maiken Nedergaard. Maiken Nedergaard is a Danish neuroscientist who discovered the glymphatic system and professor at the University of Copenhagen's Center of Basic and Translational Neuroscience. Additional speakers will include Koen De Witte, CEO of reMynd, Sebastian Haesler, Director of NERF and representatives from academia and the pharmaceutical industry.

Programme

14h00-14h30              Registration & coffee
14h30-16h00              Speakers
16h00-17h00              Panel debate
17h00-18h00              Networking in Faculty Club

Location

The event is taking place at the University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences. The visionary Seminar will be in the Faculty Club, Blegdamsvej 3B in Copenhagen.

Tuesday March 8, 2016 - Stockholm

Presentations of novel research discoveries ready for commercialisation as well as successful business projects which have reached the market will be interspersed with panel discussions, mingles and informal meetings.The afternoon is a networking event where people from research and business can meet, get inspired and build useful contacts for future joint ventures.

Speakers

Palle Høy Jakobsen, PhD & DMSc, Managing Director, Scandinavian CoLocation Center of EITHealth (European Institute of Technology-Health) - Key Note Speaker
Laura Fratiglioni, Professor and Director at Aging Research Center, Karolinska Institutet
Sebastian Haesler, Director, NERF (Neuro-Electronics Research Flanders), Leuven
Jonas Olofsson, Associate Professor in Psychology, Stockholm University
Koen De Witte, CEO, ReMynd, Leuven
Arvind Kumar, Assistant Professor, Computational
Biology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Panel

Jonas Ekstrand, CEO, AlzeCure
Gunilla Osswald, CEO, BioArctic Neuroscience
Eugen Steiner, Venture Partner, HealthCap
Gunnar Björkman, Director of Innovation, City of Stockholm

Programme

14h00-14h30        Registration & coffee
14h30-15h45        Speaker presentations
15h45-16h15        Coffee
16h15-17h00        Discussion with speakers and panel
17h00-19h00        Networking and mingle in Aula Medica

Location

Karolinska Institutet, Meeting room Strix, von Eulers väg 4B.

Interested in joining?

Please contact info@leuveninc.com