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ITINERARE Symposium 2025

Please register here until November 9th 
The event is free of charge.

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  TITEL 
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
17:40 NETWORKING Apéro

Additional Information

Location:

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