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Discovery & Development Europe 2027

Discovery & Development Europe 2027 brings together a curated ecosystem of over 1,000 senior leaders from pharma, biotech, academia, and technology organizations to address the critical issues shaping the future of drug discovery, development, and delivery. The event covers the entire R&D journey, featuring co-located programs on Drug Discovery, Formulation…

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19Speakers
10Sponsors
2Exhibitors
51Sessions
30Companies · in total

Speakers

Programmed at Discovery, in alphabetical order.

Amardeep Singh Bhalla
Executive Director · Regeneron
Dave Hallett
Chief Scientific Officer · Recursion Pharmaceuticals
David Heinz
Board Member · SiLA
Emma Mead
Chief Scientific Officer · ARUK Oxford Drug Discovery Institute
Gustavo Gutierrez
Director · AstraZeneca
Ingo Hartung
Executive Director, Global Head of Medicinal Chemistry & Drug Design · Merck & Cie KmG
Jarrod Walsh
Director – Affinity Screening · AstraZeneca
Jens Frauenfeld
Chief Executive Officer · Salipro Biotech
Krzysztof Brzózka
Chief Scientific Officer · Ryvu Therapeutics
Leena Otsomaa
Vice President, Head of Medicine Design · Orion Corporation, Orion Pharma
Marta Koper
Senior Scientist · UCB
Paul Workman
Harrap Professor of Pharmacology and Therapeutics · The Institute of Cancer Research, London
Rafal Kaminski
Chief Scientific Officer · Angelini Pharma
Robert Byrne
Head of Structural Biology, CRELUX · WuXi AppTec Company
Ruth Shah
Head of Bayer Co.Lab Berlin · Bayer
Samir Mitragotri
Professor · Harvard University
Sanne Holt
Associate Director immuno-oncology · Ncardia
Søren Nielsen
Scientific Senior Director · Amgen
Theresa Scheuble
R&D Director, Drug Delivery Systems · Johnson & Johnson Innovative Medicines

Sponsors

The companies behind the program. Tiers as disclosed.

10x GenomicsPlatinum
Bruker Spatial BiologyPlatinum
ariadne.aiGold
Cell Signaling TechnologyGold
Miltenyi Biotec, Ltd.Gold
Almac GroupSilver
ApreciaSilver
High Q Technologies IncSilver
Aelius BiotechBronze
Lonza AGBronze

Agenda

Selected from 51 sessions.

  • Monday 15 June 09:00 - 09:25

    Adventures In Precision Medicine For Cancer: 25 Years After The Genome Sequence

    Oncology leads the way in genome-based medicine with estimates of at least 90 FDA approvals requiring biomarkers for optimal patient selection – almost half of all drugs authorized…

    Keynote
  • Monday 15 June 09:00 - 09:25

    Brain Health: A Call For Global Action & Unity

    Brain health conditions affect 1 in 3 Europeans, costing €430bn annually - yet many are preventable and underfunded. Innovative therapies and cross-sector partnerships are accelera…

    Keynote
  • Monday 15 June 09:00 - 09:25

    How Innovations Are Driving The Field Of Drug Delivery?

    The presentation will discuss the challenges and opportunities in formulating biologics. In particular, it will focus on the use of ionic liquids to address bioavailability and sol…

    Keynote
  • Monday 15 June 09:00 - 09:25

    The Automation & AI Landscape In 2026

    The phrase “Lab-in-the-loop” is an often-used term. But what does it really mean? How far along are we on our journey towards autonomous science? This presentation will focus on ho…

    Keynote
  • Monday 15 June 11:05 - 11:30

    Candidate Optimisation With Physiologically-Based Pharmacokinetic Modelling

    Industry Presentation • During lead optimization, PBPK models incorporating human in vitro parameters can predict the oral bioavailability of drugs, if the mechanisms limiting the …

    TRACK 4
  • Monday 15 June 11:40 - 12:05

    Chemical Space Generation, Exploration & Visualisation

    The size of the virtually explorable chemical space is expanding due to the application of novel digital workflows. Effective selection of quality monomers, scalable information en…

    TRACK 3
  • Monday15June11:40 - 12:05

    Chemical Space Generation, Exploration & Visualisation

    The size of the virtually explorable chemical space is expanding due to the application of novel digital workflows. Effective selection of quality monomers, scalable information en…

    TRACK 3
  • Monday 15 June 12:05 - 12:30

    AI-Guided Discovery Of IAM1363: A Clinical-Stage, Next-Generation HER2 Type II Inhibitor With High Selectivity & Brain Penetrance

    IAM1363 is a potential best-in-class type II HER2 inhibitor with broad activity across HER2 mutants, >5,000-fold selectivity over EGFR, preferential tumor enrichment, and robust br…

    TRACK 3
  • Monday 15 June 12:05 - 12:30

    Candidate Optimisation With Physiologically-Based Pharmacokinetic Modelling

    • During lead optimization, PBPK models incorporating human in vitro parameters can predict the oral bioavailability of drugs, if the mechanisms limiting the oral exposure of a dru…

    TRACK 4
Company intelligence

An audience of 30 companies, parsed from the program.

30 companies in attendance.

The numbers below are derived from the speakers, sponsors, and exhibitors on this page, cross-referenced into one ledger. They are the only thing here that 10times.com cannot tell you.

Who's in the room
0All threespeak · spons · exh
10Sponsoringsponsor only
2Exhibitingexhibitor only
18Speakingspeaker only
Speakers by seniority

79% of the speakers carry senior titles: C-suite, Founder, VP, or Director-level.

  • C-suite526%
  • VP-level15%
  • Director / Head of947%
  • Research / Science15%
  • Advisor / Investor15%
  • Other roles211%

Of 19 speakers · classified by free-text title

Most-represented companies
#CompanyRolesSpeakers
110x GenomicsSponsor · Platinum-
2Aelius BiotechSponsor · Bronze-
3almac groupSponsor · Silver-
4ApreciaSponsor · Silver-
5ariadne.aiSponsor · Gold-
6Bruker Spatial BiologySponsor · Platinum-
7Cell Signaling TechnologySponsor · Gold-
8High Q TechnologiesSponsor · Silver-
9LonzaSponsor · Bronze-
10Miltenyi Biotec, Ltd.Sponsor · Gold-
11AstraZeneca2
12NeurxstemExhibitor-
13Shenzhen Huayuan Biotechnology Co LtdExhibitor-
14Amgen1
Sponsors by tier
platinum2
20% of 10
gold3
30% of 10
silver3
30% of 10
bronze2
20% of 10