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!

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

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

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

18.00-19.00 free time

19.00 Dinner

November 6, 2025

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

9.45 Franziska Hansen (FAU Erlangen) - Robotics in Surgery

10.15 Coffee break

10.45 Keynote - Prof. Anna Lisa Martin-Niedecken (ZHdK) - Designing with, not for: Evidence-Based Co-Creation in (Digital) Health Innovation

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

12.15-13.30 Lunch & Networking

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

14.15 Keynote - Dr Matthias Rüger (KISPI) - Clinical Needs and Innovations in Pediatric Orthopedics

14.45 Dr Matthias Seibold (Balgrist) - Advanced Surgical Navigation

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

16.00 Coffee break

16.30 Keynote by Prof. Giuseppe Amato, MD, FACS - Dynamic Regenerative Scaffolds: A Paradigm Shift in Abdominal Hernioplasty

17.15 Jonathan Hamid (ETHZ)

17.30 Dr Robert Nissler - Materials meets orthopaedics - from Ceramic Implant fractures to custom made pelvis reconstruction

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

19.00 Networking Apero and Dinner

November 7, 2025

08:30 Keynote by Prof. Matthias Gräser (University of Rostock / Fraunhofer Lübeck), From Nano to Micro: Magnetic Particle Imaging and Magnetio-Mechanical Resonators

09:15 Keynote by Prof. Hans Hug (Empa / University of Basel): Magnetic Hyperthermia and Magnetic Particle Imaging at the Physical Limits

10.00 Coffee break

10.3o Yael Suarez (Uppsala University) - Magnetic Particle-based Sensing and Imaging of Inflammatory Bowel Disease (tentative)

11.00 Closing remarks

12.00 Lunch (optional)