Research & Biotech Day

Research & Biotech Day

🔸🔹Research and Biotech day 2025🔹🔸

Are you passionate about biomedical research, innovation, and biotechnology? Curious to see how ideas turn into real-world clinical impact? Then Research & Biotech Day is your place to be!

This event brings together young aspiring researchers, seasoned scientists, biotech leaders, and industry innovators for a day of inspiration, discovery, and connection.

When?
Saturday 08/11/2025

Where?
Orsi Academy: Proefhoevestraat 12, 9090 Merelbeke-Melle, België

What’s on the Program?
  • Senior Research Panel
  • Junior Research Panel
  • Biotech Finance Panel
  • Biotech Executives Panel
  • Student Researcher Poster Competition: Monday deadline 27/10/2025
  • Hands-On Workshops
  • Networking Opportunities


How do I join?
  • 4/10: tickets PhD track available (exclusively for PhD students)
  • 10/10: tickets available for all our members
  • 11/10: tickets available for non-members


Student Researcher Poster Competition
Students are invited to present a poster of their completed research project at the event, either solo or in pairs. The posters will be exhibited in the main lobby for all attendees to view, offering a unique opportunity to showcase your work. Applications can be submitted via the form below!


Attention
If you cancel less than 24 hours before the event, we kindly ask for a €15 fee. Our events often sell out quickly, and this policy helps us make sure that every spot can be used by someone else.
We will donate the €15 to charity. Thank you for your understanding.

Get Your Tickets for the PhD Track Here!

Workshop overview

HROne – CV & LinkedIn Formatting
In this practical workshop, HROne will guide you through the essentials of creating a professional CV and LinkedIn profile that truly stand out. You’ll learn how to highlight your skills and experience effectively, tailor your profile to specific roles, and make the best impression on potential employers.


DaVinci Xi – Robot Session
Discover the cutting-edge world of robotic surgery with the DaVinci Xi system. This session offers a hands-on demonstration of how advanced robotics are revolutionizing surgical precision and patient outcomes. Participants will gain insight into the technology’s design, control mechanisms, and its impact on modern healthcare.


VIB – IP Protection in Biotech
Intellectual property is at the core of biotech innovation. In this session, VIB experts explain how IP protection works in the biotechnology sector—covering patents, licensing, and strategic considerations for researchers and startups looking to safeguard their discoveries.


V-Bio Ventures – Valuation in Early Biotech Startups
How do investors value a biotech startup before it has a product on the market? V-Bio Ventures will walk you through the fundamentals of startup valuation in the biotech industry, illustrating what factors investors look for and how early-stage companies can best position themselves for funding.


Get to Know Solvay’s Master’s Programs
Thinking about the next step in your academic or professional journey? This session introduces Solvay Brussels School’s master’s programs, highlighting their unique combination of business insight, scientific rigor, and international perspective. Learn which program best fits your career goals.


UCB – Erik Janssens on Innovation in Healthcare and UCB’s Standpoint
Join UCB for an engaging session on how innovation is reshaping healthcare. The workshop will explore the trends driving change, the technologies transforming pharma, and the skills needed to embrace the future. It will also examine what this evolution means for the pharmaceutical industry—and for UCB specifically." Could you please make sure this is updated accordingly?


VIB – Metabolomics: Tracing Life's Chemistry: What Mass Spectrometry Shows Us (Bart
Explore the fascinating world of metabolomics through the lens of mass spectrometry.
In this session, VIB experts will introduce the key principles behind mass spectrometry, an essential tool for analyzing metabolites in biological systems.

Two complementary slots will be offered:
  • One focusing on multiomics approaches,
  • And another diving deeper into tracer metabolomics.

A basic understanding of mass spectrometry is recommended, as the session will build on this knowledge to explore its applications in studying disease mechanisms, biomarker discovery, and systems biology.


VIB – Single Cell Core
The VIB Single Cell Core workshop dives into state-of-the-art techniques for studying biology at the single-cell level. Learn how single-cell sequencing and analysis open new frontiers in genomics, enabling unprecedented insights into cellular diversity and function.


VIB – Nucleomics
In this session, the VIB Nucleomics Core presents how cutting-edge genomic technologies unravel the complexity of chromatin organization and gene regulation. Participants will gain an overview of tools and approaches used to study DNA-protein interactions, epigenetics, and genome architecture


Van Lanschot Kempen – Later Stage Valuation in Biotech
As biotech companies mature, their valuation dynamics change. Van Lanschot Kempen will discuss the financial, scientific, and strategic factors that influence valuation in later-stage biotech firms, offering valuable insights into investment perspectives and company growth trajectories.


VIB – Technology and Bioimaging & Flow Cytometry
Get an inside look into VIB’s Technology Core specializing in bioimaging and flow cytometry. This workshop covers the advanced imaging and analytical tools used to visualize and quantify biological processes, empowering researchers to translate complex cellular data into meaningful biological insight.


VIB – Nanobody Core
Discover the potential of nanobodies—small but powerful antibody fragments developed at VIB. This session introduces their applications in research, diagnostics, and therapeutics, and explains how VIB’s Nanobody Core supports scientists in developing innovative nanobody-based solutions.