Bioengineering Day 2018

Annual research event of the EPFL's Interfaculty Institute of Bioengineering (IBI) -- this year under the motto "From Open Science to Open Innovation and Translation".

In a nutshell (see details -talk titles and schedules, in particular- HERE):

• Keynote Talk by Jennifer Elisseeff, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (USA): “Lessons from Translation: Impacting Patients and the Lab"
• Short research talks by four ‘Jeffrey Hubbell and Melody Swartz Young Bioengineer Award’ finalists
• Session on “Spin-on, Spin-off - Experiences with (Open) Innovation and Translation”:
  • Georg Fantner, Institute of Bioengineering, EPFL: “Open Hardware: Academic Instrument Development in the Age of Open Science”
  • Nathalie Brandenberg / Sylke Höhnel, Sun Bioscience: ”The Art of Uninformed Decision Making”
  • Petr Strnad, Viventis Microscopy: “Our Story Behind a Sample: from a Lab Instrument to Market”
  • Ulrike Kettenberger, Pioletti Lab, IBI-EPFL“Turning Research into a Medical Device – a Long Way”
  • Round Table Discussion: “What (not) to Do as a Starting Entrepreneur?”
• Research posters
• Annual Ceremony:
  • Jeffrey Hubbell and Melody Swartz Young Bioengineer Award' 2018
  • EDBB Distinctions 2018
  • Poster prizes
  • Toasts to various IBI faculty
• Networking, beer & wine, food, live music...