PROGRAMME 2026

The programme of the Dutch Medicines Days offers high-level plenary lectures, various parallel sessions where the different member organisations present their research.

Below is the preliminary programme overview of Dutch Medicines Days 2026 that took place on 7-8 October 2026 in Leiden.

Preliminary Programme Day 1 - 7 October 2026

09:00 - 09:30	Welcome & Coffee
09:30 - 10:45	Plenary Opening Programme Opening by Prof Laura Heitman (Chair of DMD2026) and Prof Klaas Poelstra (Chair of FIGON) Welcome Speech Keynote Presentation by Conny Helder, FAST Keynote Presentation by Prof. Annemieke Aartsma-Rus, Leiden University
10:45 - 11:15	Coffee Break
Session 1 Human Diversity in Drug Responses: From Insight to Precision Medicine 11:15 - 12:30	Session 2 From Structural Insight to Therapeutic Design 11:15 - 12:30	Session 3 Pharmacological Regeneration of Tissues 11:15 - 12:30	Session 4 From Mechanism to First-in-Human: Immunopharmacology Today 11:15 - 12:30	Industry Innovation Slots 11:15 - 12:30
12:30 - 13:30	Lunch Break
PhD Student Competition I 13:30 - 14:45	Session 5 Next Generation Preclinical Science: AI and Beyond 13:30 - 14:45	Session 6 Lipids and Lipoproteins in Drug Discovery and Therapeutic Innovation 13:30 - 14:45	Session 7 The Netherlands as a Hotspot for Clinical Research? From International Positioning to Local Feasibility 13:30 - 14:45	Industry Innovation Slots 13:30 - 14:45
14:45 - 14:55	Short Break
PhD Student Competition II 14:55 - 16:10	Session 8 Career Session 14:55 - 16:10	Session 9 From Data to Decisions: Leveraging ePI, RWD, AI and Beyond! 14:55 - 16:10	Session 10 Becoming Funding-Ready 14:55 - 16:10	Industry Innovation Slots 14:55 - 16:10
16:10- 16:30	Coffee Break
16:30 - 17:45	Plenary Closing Programme FIGON Douwe Breimer Award 2026 Keynote Presentation by Adam Stoten, Evotec Keynote Presentation TBA
17:45 - 18:45	Networking Drinks
19:00 - 21:00	Conference Walking Dinner

Preliminary Programme Day 2 - 8 October 2026

08:30 - 09:00	Welcome & Coffee
09:00 - 10:15	Plenary Opening Programme Opening by Prof Laura Heitman (Chair of DMD2026) and Prof Klaas Poelstra (Chair of FIGON) Keynote Presentation by Prof. Luc Brunsveld, TU Eindhoven Keynote Presentation by Karla van Rooijen, Ministry of Health, Welfare and Sport
10:15 - 10:45	Coffee Break
Session 11 Pharmaceutical Sciences in the Dutch Sectorplan Bèta-II: Status and Future Perspectives 10:45 – 12:00	Session 12 PharmaNL Infrastructure 10:45 – 12:00	Session 13 Innovate: Organoid Technologies in Precision Treatment Optimization 10:45 – 12:00		LDDC Track TNO Session 10:45 – 12:00
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch Break
Session 14 Innovation and Affordability Hand in Hand 13:00 - 14:15	Session 15 LED3: From Collaborative Discovery to Novel Therapeutic Candidates at Leiden University 13:00 - 14:15	Session 16 Translate: From Research to Improved Patient Care 13:00 - 14:15	Session 17 Why Great Science Rarely Reaches Patients, and What It Takes to Change That 13:00 - 14:15	LDDC Track Oligonucleotides as Treatment Strategy 13:00 - 14:15
Session 18 Lifelong Learning in the Pharma & Biotech Sector 14:30 - 15:45	Session 19 Medicine Shortages 14:30 - 15:45	Session 20 Innovation in Pharmaceutical Patient Care 14:30 - 15:45	Session 21 Accelerating Academic Therapy Development for Rare Diseases 14:30 - 15:45	LDDC Track Johnson & Johnson Talent and Career Session 14:30 - 15:45
15:45 - 16:15	Coffee Break
16:15 - 17:30	Plenary Closing Programme PhD Student Competition & Award Ceremony - Top 3 Pitches Poster Award Ceremony Panel Discussion led by Hans Schikan, Chairman, Board member, TopTeam Life Sciences & Health			LDDC Track
17:30 - 18:30	Networking Drinks

For most of the subsessions, we have space to include 1 or 2 oral presentations submitted by our delegates.

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