MIB Future Panel 2024
November 6th, 2024
Venue:
DZNE lecture hall
Venusberg-Campus 1
DE-53127 Bonn
Medical Pitch Contest Bonn
For the third time, the Transfer Team of the Medical Faculty Bonn is organising an exciting pitch event. Scientists and members of the medical faculty will have the opportunity to present their innovations to renowned venture capital investors and win a generous cash award of 60.000 EUR.
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 – 10:10 | Welcome by the Dean Prof. Bernd Weber |
10:10 – 10:20 | Innovation 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 – 10:50 | Keynote Frank Thelen Founder and CEO @ Freigeist CapitalEntrepreneur, Investor and Bestselling Author ![]() |
10:50 – 11:30 | 3rd 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 – 11:45 | Coffee break |
11:45 – 12:30 | AMD 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 – 12:50 | Experiences from Winner 2023 – Coldex Christine Wuebben |
12:50 – 13:00 | Award Ceremony |
Jury | Frank 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.

Presented by


Sponsors
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
