IngenuityLab

Medical Materials & Technology Innovation Conference 2025

November 5-7, 2025
Monte Verità, Strada Collina 84, CH-6612 Ascona, Ticino, Switzerland

Meet with scientists, engineers and surgeons in beautiful Ascona, Ticino to discuss science and find your new favorite collaborators!
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Registration Fee

Full conference (3d): 400 CHF

Weds & Thurs or Thus & Fri: 300 CHF

Registration fee covers hotel room (single) and food!

Conference Program

November 5, 2025

17.00 Welcoming and Opening talk by Prof. Andrea Quiroga, MD and Prof. Inge Herrmann

17.45 Alexander Jessernig (ETHZ) - Drain Sensors - from Concept to Clinics

18.00 Networking Apero and Dinner

November 6, 2025

8.30 Keynote - Prof. Anna Lisa Martin-Niedecken (ZHdK) - User centric design and Co-Creation

9.15 Keynote - Dr Jana Schader, MD (Balgrist) - The future of spine surgery

10.00 Coffee break

10.30 Keynote - Prof. Matthias Rüger (KISPI) - Clinical Needs and Innovations in Pediatric Orthopedics (tentative)

11.15 Keynote - Prof. Sybille Grad (AO Institute) - Understanding materials, mechancs and biology (tentative)

12.00-13.30 Lunch & Networking

13.30 Keynote - Prof. Daniel Ahmed (ETHZ) -  Designing Microbots for Medicine

14.15 Dr Matthias Seibold (Balgrist) - Advanced Surgical Navigation

14.45 Dr Oscar Cipolato (ETHZ/Empa) - Robotic Laser Tissue Soldering

15.15 Keynote - Prof. Alice Balfourier (Ecole Normale Superieure Paris), Understanding Materials-Biology Interactions across Scales (tentative)

16.00 Coffee break

16.30 Keynote by Prof. Paola Luciani (University of Bern), Advanced Drug Delivery - from Orthopedics to Women's Health (tentative)

16.30 Jonathan Hamid (ETHZ)

16.45 Keynote by Prof. Giuseppe Amato, MD, FACS

18.00 Networking Apero and Dinner

 

November 7, 2025

8.30 Keynote by Prof. Hans Hug (Empa / University of Basel): Magnetic Hyperthermia and Magnetic Particle Imaging at the Physical Limits

9.15 Keynote by Prof. Matthias Gräser (University of Rostock / Fraunhofer Lübeck), Magnetic Particle Spectroscopy and Imaging

10.0o Yael Suarez (Uppsala University) - Magnetic Particle-based Sensing and Imaging of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (tentative)

10.30 Selected talks

12.00 Closing remarks