Biomarkers, CDx & Precision Medicine 2026
Congress Centre Basel, Switzerland
Basel. 13–14 October.
Twenty-One Years On. The Same Room. A Different Conversation.
Now in its 21st year, Biomarkers, CDx & Precision Medicine Europe is the flagship European event for biomarker validation, companion diagnostics and AI-driven precision medicine.
In 2026 it co-locates with NextGen Omics, Tech & Data at Congress Centre Basel.
The IVDR-shaped regulatory landscape, the AI-driven diagnostic technologies, and the senior pharma, regulatory, academic and healthcare audiences reshaping European clinical practice are all in one place for two days.
Pre-arranged One-to-one Meetings
At Biomarkers, CDx & Precision Medicine Europe, pre-arranged meetings with solution and technology providers are a structured part of the event.
The value sits in the matches that are not obvious. A biomarker validation team meeting a computational pathology platform they were not aware of. A CDx programme meeting a regulatory consultancy that has walked the IVDR pathway. The kind of conversation that is hard to engineer any other way.
In a field moving as fast as precision medicine, that matters more than it used to.
Collaboration Hubs
Four registration-required Collaboration Hubs run alongside the conference.
The Day 1 Hubs cover AI in precision medicine, moderated by Günter Schmidt (VP Image Data Sciences, Computational Pathology, AI for Science Innovation, AstraZeneca); and pharma, start-up and academia partnering in omics and precision medicines, moderated by Raif Yuecel of the University of Exeter.
The Day 2 Hubs cover research-to-clinic translation, moderated by Richard Barker (Co-Founder & CEO, New Medicine Partners); and multi-centre networks and consortia for genomic medicine.
Capped attendance. Invited specialists. Fifty minutes behind closed doors. The format that produces the most direct exchange of the two days.
Closed-Door Panels
Two invite-only closed-door panels run on the Day 1 lunchtime, outside the main programme.
One on the Multi-Omics Investment Landscape, where VCs, founders and senior pharma BD voices discuss the recent shift in funding outlook, how breakthrough science becomes investible, and how the regulation and reimbursement landscape is reshaping early-stage diagnostics.
One on Unlocking Population Genomics with Large Scale Cohort Studies, with Aarno Palotie of FIMM carrying the FinnGen thread directly from his Day 1 plenary into the closed-door room.
These are not panels designed for an audience. They are structured conversations for the people in the room.
Day 2 Roundtable Sessions
Day 2 opens with eight parallel roundtable sessions across four conference rooms. Each table seats senior peers around one specific challenge from the wider programme — biomarker, CDx, multi-omics, spatial biology or computational pathology — for a focused conversation in a small group setting.
The roundtables are designed to surface the questions that don't make it onto a main-stage panel. The format pulls VP and Director level delegates into the room before the day formally begins.
The Investing in Precision Medicine Breakfast
Day 2 also opens with a separate breakfast session, this one bringing senior pharma R&D leaders, biotech founders, BD heads and the investor community into one room. The conversation runs on what investors are funding in precision medicine right now, what founders need to bring to a fundraise in 2026, and what role investors play beyond writing the cheque.
It pairs with the Day 1 Multi-Omics Investment Landscape panel for delegates tracking the funding side of the field.
The Start-Up Zone
Building an omics, biomarker, AI pathology or precision diagnostics company? The Start-Up Zone gives early-stage teams a stage in front of the same 1,000+ senior pharma, biotech, academic and healthcare audiences.
senior pharma, biotech, regulatory and academic delegates across both co-located events
content tracks across four programmes
Key Event Highlights
An unmissable journey awaits you: from celebrated keynote speakers and insightful private roundtables, to an exclusive gala dinner. Discover the moments that will transform your NextGen Omics & Spatial experience.
Key Event Highlights
An unmissable journey awaits you: from a high-energy AI & Data Zone to celebrated keynote speakers. Discover the moments that will transform your Biomarkers, CDx & Precision Medicine experience.
Over 1,000 senior attendees across the two co-located events. The audience split is 65% pharma and biotech, 20% healthcare, and 15% academic. Most delegates work directly in biomarker validation, CDx development, regulatory affairs, computational pathology, AI in diagnostics, multi-omics and clinical translation.
Over 110 confirmed speakers in total across the two days, drawn from the senior pharma R&D, regulatory, computational pathology, and academic communities defining the field in Europe.
Confirmed Highlighted Speakers include Johan Luthman (EVP and Head of R&D, Lundbeck), Günter Schmidt (VP Image Data Sciences, Computational Pathology, AI for Science Innovation, AstraZeneca), Rene Kubiak (Global Head of Translational Medicine and Research Statistics, Sanofi), Marta Milo (Director of Computational Oncology, Oncology Data Science & AI, AstraZeneca), Arianna Sabò (Head of Research and Discovery, Quantro Therapeutics), Emma Huang (VP and Head of Experimental Medicine, Engitix Therapeutics) and Liliana Greger (Senior Director of Bioinformatics, Amphista Therapeutics).



An unmissable journey awaits you: From celebrated keynote speakers and insightful fireside chats, to the brand new Awards Dinner. Discover the moments that will transform your Biomarkers & Precision Medicine experience.
Explore dynamic panels, engaging roundtables, and hands-on workshops designed to drive innovation and foster collaboration, including:
Panel Discussion: Overcoming Multi-Omics Data Harmonisation & Analysis Challenges
Moderator: RUSLAN SADREYEV, Director of Bioinformatics & Assistant Professor, Massachusetts General Hospital
Panellists:
ARIDAMAN PANDIT, Senior Principal Research Scientist, AbbVie
FELIX FRANCIS, Sr. Manager, Data Management and Analytics Technology Lead, Takeda
LUCA PINELLO, Associate Professor of Pathology, Harvard Medical School
MEDHI DAMAGHI, Assistant Professor & Group Leader, Stony Brook University
SIMONA CRISTEA, Head of Genomics Data Science & AI, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
LUCAS SCHÜTZ, Chief Operational Officer, AriadneAI
Presentation: Comparative Insights In Single Cell RNA-seq & Advances In Large-Scale Multimodal Profiling
ZORA MODRUSAN, Senior Director of NGS, Genentech
Panel Discussion: Guiding Immuno-Oncology Breakthroughs With Spatial Biology
Moderator: ALINA AINBINDER, Scientific Associate Director, Oncology, Takeda
Panellists:
JASMINE PLUMMER, Director, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
JIA-REN LIN, Technical Director of Tissue Imaging Platform, Harvard Medical School
NIR BEN CHETRIT, Assistant Professor, Weill Cornell Medicine
COLLES PRICE, Scientific Associate Director, Takeda
YASSER RIAZALHOSSEINI, Associate Professor & Head of Cancer Genomics, McGill University
Breakfast Roundtables - with topics including
• The Potential Of Multi-Omics In Cell & Gene Therapies
• New Frontiers In Liquid Biopsies
• Integrating Single Cell Data Across Samples
• Overcoming Cell Segmentation Challenges In Multiplex Immunofluorescence Biomarker Imaging
• Single Cell Multi- Omics Integration– From The Pharma Perspective
• Safety Biomarkers In The Age Of Spatial Biology
• Harnessing Spatial Transcriptomics In Immunoscience
• Spatial Analysis Of Cancer Data
• Advancing Spatial Biology Using The Complexities Of Immune Cell Interactions In
Explore dynamic panels, engaging roundtables, and hands-on workshops designed to drive innovation and foster collaboration, including:
Panel Discussion: What Is The Next Game Changer In Antibody Engineering?
Moderator: Karen Silence, Head Preclinical Product Development, ArgenX
Panellists include Berit Olsen Krogh, Senior Research Fellow; and Lundbeck Andrew Buchanan, Principal Scientist, AstraZeneca
Roundtable: Regulatory Insights On Bringing A Peptide To Human Trials
Moderator: Paul Reid, Co-Founder & Chief Scientific Officer, Celtic Bio
Workshop: Development Of Targeted Delivery Systems
Two Presentations, followed by a Panel Discussion on 'The Next Chapter Of Oligonucleotide Delivery'
Moderator: Steve Hood, Senior Director, Oligonucleotide ADME Strategy, GSK
Panel Discussion: Navigating The Paradigm Shift Towards Greener Approaches
Moderator: Walter Cabri, Full Professor of Organic Chemistry, University of Bologna
Panellists include Daniel Sejer Pedersen, Chemical Development Specialist CMC API Development, Novo Nordisk;
Anna Maria Papini, Full Professor & Group Leader, University of Florence;
Louis Diorazio, Senior Principal Scientist, New Modalities, AstraZeneca;
Alessandra Tolomelli, Associate Professor, University of Bologna
Presentation: How The RNA Technologies Could Help To Prevent Infectious Diseases And Could Be Applied To Various Chronic Disease Immunotherapies?
Presented by: Daniel Larocque, Innovation Lead, Innovation and Emerging Science, Sanofi
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Start-Ups
The 1-2-1s are the best thing about Oxford Global events, well organised and good number of relevant contacts. Good high level contacts from big companies.
Advanced Therapies Specialist Team Leader,
Genscript
Biologics 2024 has been one of the best events I have attended so far in my career.
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Impressed by the effort to bring people together.
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Bioassay
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ImmunoPrecise
The start-up zone provides a unique opportunity for you to exhibit, network, and pitch to our global audience of pharma, biotech, and investment professionals.
It's designed for start-ups from across the biologics space, working on cutting-edge therapies, innovative platform technologies, products, and solutions and is an ideal platform to share your business plans and promote your science.
There are two options, based on the type of your organisation with prices starting from £1,500 (+VAT) for companies with own therapeutic research pipeline and registration from £3,500 (+VAT) available for companies offering solutions, services or platform technologies.
For further information and to get started submit the application form below.
Criteria:
To qualify your company must be:
- Therapeutic Start-Up, Emerging Technology OR Service Start-Up
- Operating No More Than 5 Years
- 0 – 30 employees
- Pre-Series A Funding
Successful applications receive:
- 1 Full Conference Pass
- 10-Minute Presentation Opportunity
- 1x1m Space in Start-Up Zone
- Logo Featured on Event Website & App as a Participating Start-Up
- Ability to Arrange Peer to Peer Meetings via the Congress App
The NextGen Biomed Best Poster Presentation Competition & Award includes the best poster presentation award and is intended to honour an outstanding individual performance for a scientific work by either an early career or established scientist, including PhD student and PostDocs.
Please submit your poster presentation by no later than 13th January 2025 in the below category:
- Protein/Antibody Engineering
- Bioanalysis & Characterisation
- Next Generation Biotherapeutics
- Peptides Chemistry & Therapeutics
- Oligonucleotides Chemistry & Therapeutics
- Sustainable Chemistry & Manufacturing
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- Open to all scientists, including students (PhD), PostDocs, and established researchers representing pharma & biotech companies and/or academic institutions
- Applicants must be the first AND presenting author of the submitted paper and register for the meeting by 13th January 2025
- ONLY ONE submission per person will be accepted. If authors submit multiple abstracts for consideration for the competition, only one abstract will be taken into consideration
Applicants must follow the procedure as follows:
- Register and submit an abstract by 13th January 2025 using the registration link to the right on this page. Please ensure you add the poster display option on the registration page to secure your admission into the Best Poster Competition & Award
- Once registered you will be provided with the online abstract submission form
- Prepare the poster or platform and present it (The poster presenter should be at the poster during all breaks.)
- The winner with the highest scores will be announced at the Morning Networking Break on Day 3 of the event
The poster presentations will be evaluated by everyone attending the event on the basis of originality of the approach and quality of the work (e.g. appropriate methodology, interpretation of results, conclusiveness). Attendees will be allowed to cast one vote by selecting their favourite work in the poster area. All votes will be counted at the end of Day 2 at 5pm and results will be announced during the morning networking break on Day 3. .
The winner receiving the highest scores will be announced on Day 3 and will be given a trophy as well as £600 contribution towards travel & accommodation costs to attend the 2026 NextGen Biomed event. Oxford Global will also provide winners with PLUS Pass – 12 months access to our digital content platform providing access to on-demand presentations, exclusive reports and highlights.
The Computational Pathology Diagnostic Solution Hackathon will bring together clinicians, pathologists, AI experts, pharma biomarker teams, diagnostics partners, and regulatory stakeholders to develop practical computational pathology diagnostic solutions for real-world biomarker and clinical decision-making challenges. Focusing on 5 key questions, teams will have the chance to collaborate and discuss these challenges before providing a 10 minute presentation, with winners announced by our judges on the day.

By Rail
Basel is an international rail hub with direct ICE, IC and EC connections to Germany, Austria, Italy, France and the Benelux countries. Messe Basel can be reached in five to ten minutes from the three railway stations in Basel: SBB (Switzerland), SNCF (France) (Frankreich) and DB (Badischer Bahnhof, Germany)
By Tram
From the SBB/SNCF railway station, it’s a ten-minute journey on the No. 1 or 2 Tram to the “Messeplatz/Exhibition Square” stop where Messe Basel and the Congress Center are located. From Badischer Bahnhof railway station, “Messeplatz/Exhibition Square” is the second stop on the No. 2 or 6 tram.
By Air
EuroAirport Basel-Mulhouse-Freiburg is 15 minutes by car from Messe Basel. Basel municipal transport’s No. 50 bus additionally provides a straightforward connection from the airport to the SBB/SNCF railway station. From there, tram No. 1 or 2 will take you directly to Messeplatz/Exhibition Square. From Zurich Airport a direct rail connection will bring you to the SBB/SNCF railway station in Basel in less than an hour. For further information including a map and full directions, please visit: https://www.messe-basel.com/en/about-us/getting-to-messe-basel/
By Car
Basel is located at the point where the Swiss, German and French motorway networks all meet. The exhibition and congress site has its own direct link to the A2 motorway. The “Messe” exit will take you straight to the Messe Basel car park with its 1,200 parking spaces.
We are closely monitoring the official guidance from health authorities, local governments, and the World Health Organization in order to support the health and well-being of our global community. The health and safety of our staff, customers and clients remains our number one priority.
As we continue to move forward with hosting our events in-person in 2026, we’ve added a series of Health & Safety guidelines and precautions in order to prepare for event safety. We carry out risk assessments for all our events to evaluate fundamental considerations and how to cover multiple risk scenarios.
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