Conference Programme

Agenda

10 July 2024
Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB) Lisbon, Portugal

• 8.45 h

   

  Registration and welcome coffee

• 9.30 h

   

  Welcome

  • Artur Santos Silva, Member of the Board of Trustees of ”la Caixa” Foundation

• 9.40 h

   

  Opening

  • Fernando Alexandre, Minister of Education, Science and Innovation

• 10.15 h

   

  Keynote - Science and Innovation in Europe: Challenges for a Transformative Agenda

  • Manuel Heitor, Director of Technology Policy Lab, Center for Innovation, Technology and Policy Research, former Minister of Science, Technology and Higher Education of Portugal

• 10.45 h

   

  Fostering biomedical innovation: ”la Caixa” Foundation initiatives

  • Ignasi López, Director of Partnerships with Research and Health Institutions, ”la Caixa” Foundation

• 11 h

   

  Coffee break

• 11.30 h

   

  Round table 1 - From the lab to patients: success stories from the Portuguese Innovation Ecosystem

  • Lorena Diéguez, International Iberian Nanotechnology Laboratory (INL)

  • Inês C. Gonçalves, Instituto de Investigação e Inovação em Saúde (i3S) / Instituto de Engenharia Biomédica (INEB), Universidade do Porto

  • Miguel C. Parreira Soares, Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciência (IGC)

  • Bruno Silva-Santos, Instituto de Medicina Molecular (iMM)

  • Cláudio M. Soares, Instituto de Tecnologia Química e Biológica António Xavier (ITQB NOVA), Universidade Nova de Lisboa

• 12.45 h

   

  Networking lunch

• 14.15 h

   

  Keynote - The BioInnovation Institute: Bringing ideas to life and research to market

  • Trine Bartholdy, Chief Innovation Officer (CIO) at the BioInnovation Institute Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark

• 14.45 h

   

  CaixaResearch Institute

  • Àngel Font, Executive Director of the CaixaResearch Institute and Research and Health in Portugal

• 15 h

   

  Round table 2 - Fostering innovation and knowledge transfer: the role of research institutions

  • Maria Mota, Executive President, Gulbenkian Institute for Molecular Medicine (GIMM)

  • Catarina Resende de Oliveira, Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology (CNC), University of Coimbra

  • Nuno Sousa, President, Agência de Investigação Clínica e Inovação (AICIB)

  • Carlos Ribeiro, Fundação Champalimaud

  • Claudio Sunkel, Director, Institute for Research and Innovation in Health (i3S), Universidade do Porto

• 16 h

   

  Wrap up

  • Pedro Pita Barros, BPI | Fundação ”la Caixa” Chair in Health Economics, Nova School of Business and Economics

• 16.30 h

   

  Closing

  • Juan Ramón Fuertes, Deputy General Manager, ”la Caixa” Foundation

• 16.40 h

   

  Cocktail