4th Disc4All Winter School

Belgium | 19-23 February 2024 |  KU Leuven

 

The agenda is currently a work in progress and might be subject to change as we continue to refine the details.

ORGANIZER: INSILICOTRIALS

Dorina Stanculescu

Luca Emili

HOST: KU LEUVEN

Liesbet Geris

Ahmad Alminnawi

Bernard Staumont

The Winter School is a cornerstone event in Disc4All calendar, bringing together experts and enthusiasts in the field of in silico medicine. This year, we are focusing on the following topics: 

Business Strategy: Exploring market trends, stakeholder analyses, funding opportunities, leadership and the intricacies of due diligence.

Clinical Outreach: Engaging healthcare providers and discussing the implications and potential of our work.

Models and Simulation in Medicine: Delving into risk management, liability issues, and the 3Rs (Replace, Reduce, Refine).

Translational Research: Bridging gaps between medicine, in silico practices, and regulatory frameworks.

VENUE

Joris Helleputte Building, Minderbroedersstraat 8, 3000 Leuven, Building number: 124-03

** Lunch and coffee breaks provided onsite **

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Key Speakers

Matthieu De Beule

CEO & Co-Founder
FEops

Matthieu De Beule

Co-founder and CEO of FEops - a digital health leader in personalized predictive planning for structural heart interventions. Enabling manufacturers and assisting physicians to optimize structural heart interventions
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Luca Emili

CEO and Founder
InSilicoTrials

Luca Emili

Founder and CEO of InSilicoTrials , a platform facilitating the use of modeling and simulation in life sciences. Prior to this, he was the CEO of Emaze, a cybersecurity firm that specialized in automated security analysis for complex networks. He is also co-editor of the upcoming open-access book "Toward Good Simulation Practice:
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Liesbet Geris

Research Professor
University Liège and KU Leuven

Liesbet Geris

Research Professor in Biomechanics and Computational Tissue Engineering . Her research focusses on the multi-scale and multi-physics modeling of biological processes. She has received 2 prestigious ERC grants to finance her research and has received a number of young investigator and research awards from the in silico and regenerative medicine communities.
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Zita Van Horenbeeck

Social Scientist & Doctoral Researcher KU Leuven

Zita Van Horenbeeck

Zita serves as the social scientist for the Virtual Physiological Human Institute ( VPHi) Simultaneously, Zita is an external PhD student at the Life Sciences and Society Lab at KU Leuven. Her PhD focuses on Patient and Public Involvement (PPI) within the realm of in silico medicine, with an emphasis on fostering trust in this emerging field.
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Rik Lories

Professor
University Liège and KU Leuven

Rik Lories

Full Professor in the Faculty of Medicine, Chair of the Department of Development and Regeneration, and Director of the Skeletal Biology and Engineering Research Center. He is also the Director of Internal Medicine ("voorzitter competentiecentrum inwendige geneeskunde) and Head of the Division of Rheumatology at the University Hospitals Leuven.
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Jérôme Noailly

Full Professor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Jérôme Noailly

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Academic Researcher and Professor in Higher Education. Research leader in Biomechanics and Mechanobiology with strong focus on theoretical modelling and computational methods, from the cellular to multi-organ levels, applied to systematic explorations of human disease pathophysiology and to In Silico Medicine
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Ali Mobasheri

Professor of Musculoskeletal Biology
University of Oulu

Ali Mobasheri

Professor of Musculoskeletal Biology at the University of Oulu and Chief Researcher at the State Research Institute Centre for Innovative Medicine, Lithuania. He is President of the Osteoarthritis Research Society International and he served as a Highly Cited Adjunct Professor in the Distinguished Scientist Program of the Center of Excellence in Genomic Medicine Research, King Abdulaziz University.
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Janine Post

Associate Professor at University of Twente

Janine Post

Head of the Quantitative Biology Lab and associate professor within the department of Developmental BioEngineering at the University of Twente, The Netherlands. Her research is aimed toward understanding the molecular mechanisms regulating cartilage and heart tissue development and loss of homeastasis in these diseases.
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Dorina Stănculescu

Head of PR and Communication
InsilicoTrials

Dorina Stănculescu

Head of Communication and Public Relations at InSilicoTrials, I have spent my career working in the broad field of science communication, engaging in a wide range of activities. I am also co-author of Science Dialogues – Basic concepts and tools for effective and gratifying research communication –SISSA Medialab, October 2020
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Mariano Vazquez

Co-founder and CTO
ELEM Biotech

Mariano Vasquez

Co-founder of ELEM Biotech and researcher in the field of Computational Mechanics, specially applied to the Biomedical realm at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center.
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Social Event

Live a brewery experience and then dinner at ‘De Hoorn’

 

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