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ITINERARE Symposium 2025

Program

09:00 - 09:10	Welcome by Prof. Beatrice Beck Schimmer Vice President Medicine, University of Zurich
09:10 - 09:45	Paving the way to innovative therapies: Activities of the European Reference Networks and the European Rare Disesae Research Alliance Prof. Franz Schäfer Pediatric Nephrology, Heidelberg University Hospital, Germany
09:45 - 10:20	WHY ALL DISEASES ARE RARE/RARISH DISEASES Prof. Harald Schmidt Department of Pharmacology and Personalised Medicine, Maastricht University, Netherlands
10:20 – 10:50	Coffee Break
10:50 – 11:35	RARESIM: USING EMBEDDINGS TO TEACH AIS ABOUT RARE DISEASES Prof. Abraham Bernstein Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, Switzerland
11:35 – 12:10	EXPLORING HUMAN NEURODEVELOPMENT DISEASES USING BRAIN ORGANOID MODELS Prof. Marisa Karow-Falk Institute of Biochemistry, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
12:10 – 12:45	Cystic Fibrosis Prof. Alexander Möller Pediatrics & Pneumology, University Children’s Hospital Zurich, Switzerland
12:45 - 14:15	Lunch
14:15 – 14:50	A roadmap to tailored genetic interventions in patients with neurodegenerative disorders Prof. Willeke van Roon Human Genetics, Leiden University, Netherlands
14:50 – 15:35	Programming permanent gene repression by epigenetic editing Prof. Angelo Lombardo San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele, Italy
15:35 - 16:05	Coffee Break
16:05 - 16:40	REGULATORY CONSIDERATIONS FOR ATMP TRIALS Dr. Elena Guillen Benitez Leiden University Medical Center, Netherlands
16:40 - 17:40	Gene Therapies – From Clinical Trials to Routine Healthcare Ethics Panel with Dr. Elena Guillen Benitez, Prof. Janine Reichenbach, Kelly Ormond and Vanessa Grand (Moderator: Dr. iur., Dr. med. et Dr. sc. med. Julian W. März, University of Zurich)
17:40	NETWORKING Apéro

Additional Information

University Children’s Hospital Zurich, Gebäude Forschung & Lehre, Hörsaal B, August-Forel-Str. 51, 8008 Zürich