The meeting will start on Thursday, February 13, 2025, at 12 p.m. CET with Registration and Finger Food and at about 1 p.m. with the scientific part of the meeting, which is expected to end at about 6:30 p.m. At about 7:30 p.m. there will be a dinner on the river Aare at the Schwellenmätteli Restaurant, Dalmaziquai 11.
The second day, Friday February 14th, will start at about 8:30 a.m. with the General Meeting of the CRS Local Chapter Germany and at 9:30 a.m. with the scientific part of the meeting, which is expected to conclude at around 1 p.m.
Some highlights
9 invited lectures
10 selected short talks by PhDs and Postdocs
1 Poster Flash Talk sessions
2 Poster sessions
1 session of the newly founded Young Scientists Committee (YSC)
1 panel discussion on Innovation with academic spinoff founders and industry
Academia
Stéphane Guerrier (Geneva)
Inge Hermann (Zurich)
Twan Lammers (Aachen)
Jean-Christophe Leroux (Zurich)
Karsten Mäder (Halle)
Mariana Blanco Massani (Innsbruck)
Olivia Merkel (Munich)
Philipp Seib (Jena)
Industry
Elisabeth Engelsberger (Lonza)
Marc Heitz (Roche)
Hicham Majd (Novartis)
Martin Bultmann (AbbVie)
David Wurm (NovoArc)
YSC
Scott McNeil (Basel)
Christine Mayer (Wiley)
David Klein Cerrejon (Zurich)
The registration and submission are closed.
Please register for the conference by filling in this Forms page.
Membership Status and Registration Fees
Academia
Industry
There are various ways to sponsor our meeting. Please contact us to know more.
Registration for the event closes on January 17, 2025
Registration fees for participants paying in EUROS
Registration fees for participants paying in SWISS FRANCS
The registration and submission are closed.
To submit an abstract please download the form and submit it to: CRS_dechat_2025.dcbp@unibe.ch
Poster presentations for the conference must adhere to the mandatory format of A0 size in portrait orientation. Materials for mounting the posters will be provided on-site.
We also offer a pre-meeting Workshop as an introduction to Lean and Six Sigma (LSS) principles for process improvements. This workshop is facilitated with kind support from IPPD (https://ippd.eu/) and the Galenus Foundation (https://www.galenusprivatstiftung.at/).
The number of seats is limited to 20 players. Attendees of the CRS meeting will get priority and seats will be assigned on a first come first serve basis. Better register soon!
We encourage post-docs, habilitation candidates, assistant and junior professors, and persons in equivalent positions in the field of pharmaceutical technology and biopharmacy to apply for a travel grant at the Galenus Foundation!
Bern offers plenty of options for accommodation but we invite you to finalize your reservation
as soon as possible, as other international conferences will take place on the same days.
Here some recommendations:
Hotel Kreuz
Zeughausgasse, 39/41, 3011, Bern
Sorell Hotel Ador***
Laupenstrasse 15, 3001 Bern
https://sorellhotels.com/de/ador/bern/
Sorell Hotel Arabelle***
Mittelstrasse 6, 3012 Bern
https://sorellhotels.com/de/arabelle/bern/
Hotel La Pergola***
Belpstrasse 43, 3007 Bern
http://www.hotel-lapergola.ch/
Youth Hostel Bern
Weihergasse 4, 3005 Bern
http://www.youthhostel.ch/de/hostels/bern
Tourism Website of Bern
For an extensive list of hotels in Bern:
https://www.bern.com/en/inform/accommodations/