Lecture Program at the CONTACT2022
Besides the company booths, the CONTACT2022 also offers keynotes on different career paths and perspectives in the field of life sciences. Many of the exhibitioners will present their company in a 15-30 minutes’ talk. Please find an overview of the lectures here. You can find a brief description of our external speakers from Spektrum der Wissenschaft and the Patentanwaltskanzlei Ullrich und Naumann here. All lectures will be held in english, unless indicated otherwise.Live streaming
The lectures will also be live streamed via Zoom. Please find the links to the streams here.Lecture Program
Stage 1
| 9:15-09:30 | Welcome by BioContact e.V. and Prof. Dr. Rienk Offringa (DKFZ) |
| 09:30-10:00 | DKFZ Career Service | Barbara Janssens Career Paths in the Life Sciences |
| 10:00-10:30 | Rentschler | Sabine Lotz
 Schreibe Deine Geschichte mit Rentschler Biopharma |
| 10:30-11:00 | Bayer | Bärbel Volkmann Be you, be Bayer! |
| 11:00-11:30 | Sanofi | Katrin Köhler
Welcome to Sanofi |
| 11:30-12:00 | Merck kGaA | Lisa Herge START YOUR JOURNEY OF DISCOVERY |
| 12:00-12:30 | McKinsey & Company, Inc. | Martin Ellmers, Tomke Pauly
Warum McKinsey |
| 12:30-13:00 | Lonza | Ivonne Marschall
Silicon Valais - HighTech Boom im Herzen der schweizer Alpen |
| 13:00-13:30 | Break |
| 13:30-14:00 | Abbvie | Alfred Stefan
AbbVies Movement hin zu in-silico Forschung |
| 14:00-14:30 | BASF | Dr. David Maurer Bioscience Research & Career at BASF |
| 14:30-15:00 | Procter & Gamble | Juan Hernandez P&G - the best place to work at |
| 15:00-15:30 | Novo Nordisk | Anneke Janz, Ana Mora Agudo Life-changing careers at Novo Nordisk |
| 15:30-17:00 | Paneldiscussion | Abbvie, DewpointX, Eurofins, Lonza, Novo Nordisk, Sciomics, Zamann Work trends - how will the workplace and culture change in the future? |
Stage 2
| 9:30-10:30 | Short Talks with
Zamann Pharma | Candice Birch
An introduction to Pharmuni
R-Biopharm | Dr. Anne-Susan Gantzert
Dein Einstieg bei R-Biopharm
Patentanwaltskanzlei Ullrich & Naumann | Dr. Jan Erwig
Patent attorney – working at the interface of scientific innovation
and commercialization
Sciomics | Dr. Ronny Schmidt
Right in the middle of things - a day in a growing Start-up |
| 10:30-11:00 | DewpointX | Dr. Michael Wagner Dewpoint Therapeutics – Condensates Matter |
| 11:00-11:30 | ICON plc | tbd Company presentation ICON plc |
| 11:30-12:00 | Trinity Life Science | Benjamin Anstett Trinity Life Sciences - Every Decision Impacts a Life. |
| 12:00-12:30 | PPD | Michael Wingerter
Careers in Clinical Research from the perspective of a Global CRO |
| 12:30-13:00 | Affimed | Sheena Pinto, Christian Breunig Affimed – Untapping the Power of Innate Immunity to Treat Cancer |
| 13:00-13:30 | InfectoPharm | Dr. Dominik Vogt, Thu Huyen Nguyen
Ihre Karrieremöglichkeit bei InfectoPharm |
| 13:30-14:00 | Gotthardt Healthcare AG | Marco Bleistein Medical Evidence to Action |
| 14:00-14:30 | Agap2 | Alexander Pfriem
agap2 - Operative Projekttätigkeit in Pharma, MedTec und BioTec |
| 14:30-15:00 | ZS Associate | Falko Graf-Meisner, Nils Niemann, Lucy Carter, Janneke Blisjswijk Scientists in Consulting |
| 15:00-15:30 | Spektrum der Wissenschaft | Dr. Frank Schubert
Als Wissenschaftsredakteur:in arbeiten |
| 15:30-16:00 | Catalent | Anita Ihrig
Karrierestart für Naturwissenschaftler bei Catalent |
