MEB Science Day 2025 - Programme
The MEB Science Day 2025 is chaired by Prof. Eric Boersma. He is the chair of the MEB's Science Committee and professor of Clinical epidemiology of cardiovascular diseases at Erasmus MC, University Medical Center, Rotterdam. Below is an overview of the programme of the MEB Science Day.
12.15 – 13.15
Registration and lunch
13.15 – 13.20
Opening and welcome
13.20 – 13.30
Dr. Marjon Pasmooij (Head Science Department MEB & Associate Professor Drug Regulatory Science at Utrecht University)
Presentation MEB Science Policy 2025-2029
13.30 – 13.50
Dr. Falk Ehmann (Head of Innovation and Development Accelerator & Regulatory Science and Innovation Task Force at European Medicines Agency)
Introduction to the topic of Platform Technology
13.50 – 14.10
Dr. Marcel Hoefnagel (Senior quality assessor MEB & Chair of the Quality Innovation Group at EMA)
Learnings and reflections based on stakeholders’ views presented at the EMA Quality Innovation Group Listen & Learn Focus Group meeting on Platforms Technologies
14.10 – 14.30
Sean Russell (Head of Regulatory Affairs at Fondazione Telethon)
Title: will follow
14.30 – 14.45
Poster pitches
14.45 – 15.30
Break & Poster session
15.30 – 15.50
Britt Duijndam, Msc. (Non-clinical assessor MEB)
Non-clinical aspects of non-coding RNAs
15.50 – 16.10
Prof. Matthis Synofzik (Head, Division Translational Genomics of Neurodegenerative Diseases, & Hertie-Institute for Clinical Brain Research, University of Tübingen)
A scalable platform approach for preclinical and clinical development of patient-customized ASOs for brain diseases
16.10 – 16.45
Panel discussion chaired by Dr. Viktoriia Starokozhko (Clinical assessor MEB & Member Scientific Advice Working Party at EMA)
Panel members: Dr. Falk Ehmann, Dr. Marcel Hoefnagel, Sean Russell, Dr. Emmely de Vries (Senior Clinical assessor at MEB & Member Committee for Advanced Therapies at EMA), Britt Duijndam, Prof. Matthis Synofzik
16.45 – 16.55
Prof. Ton de Boer (Chair MEB & em. Professor of Pharmacotherapy, Utrecht University)
Reflections on the day
16.55 – 17.00
End
17.00 – 18.00
Drinks & networking