MIB Future Panel 2024

November 6th, 2024

Venue:
DZNE lecture hall
Venusberg-Campus 1
DE-53127 Bonn

Symposium for Science and Industry

We will again have an afternoon full of networking opportunity between academia, start-ups and industry with a focus on medical imaging and artificial intelligence. Our speakers will present their latest work and inspire discussions about the future of the medical field.


Program

3rd Medical Pitch Contest Bonn

9:30 Registration open

10:00 – 10:10Welcome by the Dean Prof. Bernd Weber
10:10 – 10:20Innovation landscape in North Rhine-Westphalia
Johannes Velling
Head of Digitalisation, start-ups and services,
Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Action and Energy
of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
10:20 – 10:50Keynote
Frank Thelen

Founder and CEO @ Freigeist CapitalEntrepreneur,
Investor and Bestselling Author

10:50 – 11:303rd Medical Pitch Contest Bonn

ALLSTARS
ALgaL Sterols for the Treatment of AoRtic Stenosis
Julian Jehle

PulMorph
A light weight tool to quantify pulmonary fibrosis and total vital capacity
Alexander Böhner

EndOv-Screening
Screening method for ovarian and endometrial cancer to improve
the chance to survive
Eva Egger

ImmunoBright
A special subset of NK cells for the treatment of immunologically
cold cancers by modifying the tumor microenvironment
Denise Rommel

11:30 – 11:45Coffee break

11:45 – 12:30AMD detector
early diagnosis of disease relevant changes in the human eye
Thomas Ach

SIRS chip
A pre-operative assay to identify patients at risk for Systemic

Inflammatory Response Syndrome
Susanne Schmidt

NanoLazarus
Nanobodies against GSDMD for the treatment of inflammatory

diseases including sepsis
Alice Trenerry

Bad memories
Nanobodies to erase harmful inflammatory memories that cause

chronic inflammatory diseases
Bernardo Franklin

AI binder
developing novel biologics with artificial intelligence

Gregor Hagelueken
12:30 – 12:50Experiences from Winner 2023 – Coldex
Christine Wuebben
12:50 – 13:00Award Ceremony
JuryFrank Hensel
Principal, High-Tech Gründerfonds
Jessica Hanneken
Vice President Investment und Gesundheitspolitik, Bfs Health Finance
Niklas Hebborn
Partner, Freigeist Capital
Dennis Fink
Senior Investor Relations Manager, Xlife Sciences
Ina Mayländer
Investment Analyst, TechVision Fonds

13:00 – 14:00 Networking & Lunch

Symposium for Science and Industry

13:00 – 14:00 Registration open

14:00 Welcome by Prof. Dr. med. Frank G. Holz
Session 1
14:05

Hosts: 

Prof. Dr. rer. nat. Shadi Albarqouni

Albarqouni Lab
Department of Radiology
University Hospital Bonn

Prof. Dr. med. MUDr. Valentin S. Schäfer
Department of Rheumatology
University Hospital Bonn


Lymph Node Metastasis Detection in Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma
David D. Gaviria
Albarqouni Lab
Department of Radiology
University Hospital Bonn

Affordable AI for Retinal Disease Detection 
Elyes Farjallah
Albarqouni Lab
Department of Radiology
University Hospital Bonn

GCAId: Preventing blindness by revolutionizing giant cell arteritis detection with AI 
Sarah Schaab
Albarqouni Lab
Department of Radiology
University Hospital Bonn

Fastsurfer-a fast and accurate deep learning based neuroimaging pipeline
Dr. Leonie Henschel
Deep MI Lab, DZNE Bonn




14:50 Keynote
Leander Maerkisch

Founder and Managing Director @ Floy GmbH,Biohacker, Forbes 30 under 30


15:15–15:30 Coffee break

Session 2
15:30
Hosts:

Dr. Behnam Javanmardi
Institute for Genomics and Statistics Bonn
University Hospital Bonn

Prof. Peter Krawitz
Institute for Genomics and Statistics Bonn
University Hospital Bonn
Immune Imaging of the Thyroid using Radiolabeled-Nanobodies
Dr. med. Barbara Kreppel
Department of Nuclear Medicine
University Hospital Bonn

GA Grader – Fully automated AI-based monitoring tool for clinical practise
Dr. med. Marlene Saßmannshausen
Department of Ophthalmology
University Hospital Bonn

Eye2Gene: next generation phenotyping of inherited retinal diseases using multimodal imaging
Dr. William Woof 
UCL Institute of Ophthalmology
University College London

GestaltMatcher – A global reference for facial phenotypic variability in rare human disease
Hellen Lesmannnn
Institute for Human Genetics
University Hospiatl Bonn

Tackling the Rare-Disease Face Dysmorphology Classification with preserved Anonymity
Fabio Hellmann, MSc.
Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
University of Augsburg

Bone2Gene: artificial intelligence for diagnosing and monitoring of genetic bone diseases
Dr. Behnam Javanmardi
Institute for Genomics and Statistics Bonn (IGSB) University Hospital Bonn

17:05 – 18:00 Reception and Networking

Sponsorship Opportunities

For Industry we offer different sponsoring packages and the opportunity to showcase at an exclusive exhibition during the entire day. Details on the packages can be found here.

MIB-Future Panel am 16.11.23, © MIB, Volker Lannert

Presented by

Prof. Bernd Weber
Prof. Frank G. Holz

Sponsors

Platinum

Heidelberg Engineering

Silver

Biogen GmbH

Silver

Novartis Pharma GmbH

Silver

Bayer Vital GmbH

Bronze

Siemens Healthineers AG

This event is partially funded by The Ministry of Economic Affairs, Industry, Climate Action and Energy of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia
Diese Veranstaltung wird gefördert durch das Ministerium für Wirtschaft, Industrie, Klimaschutz und Energie des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen