08:30

am

Registration of Participants
09:00

am

Opening Session, Welcome Speeches
09:25

am

ESFRI Infrastructures & Patient Engagement
Jens K. Habermann
General Director, BBMRI-ERIC
Tony Andreu
Scientific Director of EATRIS and expert in translational medicine, rare diseases, and biomedical research innovation
Presentation Video of the Slovak ESFRI Research Infrastructures
Darina Sedláková
Member of Association for the Protection of Patients’ Rights of the Slovak Republic
Coffee Break
11:20

am

Biobanking Achievements and Translational Impact
Helmuth Haslacher
Head of MedUni Wien Biobank (Liquid Collections), BBMRI.at
Roman Hrstka
National Node Director, BBMRI.cz
Giedrė Kvedaravičienė
Director of the Lithuanian Population and Rare Diseases Biobank, Faculty of Medicine, Vilnius University, Lithuania
Anett Dancs
Head of Laboratory, BBMRI.hu
Zora Kľocová Adamčáková
Director of the Regional Public Health Authority in Banská Bystrica, National Coordinator of the Swiss–Slovak Cooperation Programme Screening Project
Peter Zvara
Professor of Experimental Surgery, University of Southern Denmark, and Consultant Urologist, Odense University Hospital
01:30

pm

Lunch
02:20

pm

Translation Science KEYNOTE SPEECHES: Building Faster Bench-to-Bedside Ecosystems
Jiří Vondrášek
National Coordinator and Head of ELIXIR CZ Infrastructure
Marián Hajdúch
Institute of Molecular and Translational Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacký University Olomouc and Olomouc University Hospital
Petra Zahradníková
Associate Professor of Pediatric Surgery and medical innovator at the Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University and the National Institute of Children’s Diseases, Bratislava; Co-founder of InfantSim
Matej Škorvánek
Professor and Head of the Centre for Rare Movement Disorders, Department of Neurology, Faculty of Medicine, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice (UPJŠ FM)
Lukáš Plank
Professor of Pathology at the Jessenius Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University and University Hospital Martin
04:00

pm

Coffee Brea
04:20

pm

Guided Tour of the Biobank (optional)
07:30

pm

Welcome Networking Dinner