

2027
Bio-Neuroscience 2026 was over-subscribed. The 2027 edition is now open — and places remain strictly limited.
Feb 9 to 11, 2027
Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
Join the most exclusive gathering of neuroscience CEOs, investors, pharma decision-makers and innovators in the sector. Three editions in, Bio-Neuroscience has established itself as the event where the most consequential conversations in CNS drug development happen — and where deals begin.
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ABOUT
Where the Business of Neuroscience Drug Development is Done.
Exceptional, curated quality | Strictly limited places | By-invitation or application


INSIGHT • ACCESS • ENGAGEMENT • IMPACT
The Premier Gathering — By Design
Bio-Neuroscience is by-invitation in character and strictly limited in size. No filler. No noise. A handpicked assembly of the sector's top CEOs, C-suite executives, managing partners, pharma heads of business development and licensing, and the most active investors in global CNS drug development — convened in a format designed for genuine interaction, not passive attendance.
The Business of Neuroscience Drug Development
This is not a scientific conference or mass access event. It is the exclusive summit where the hottest biotech founders engage the most active neuroscience investors, where pharma business development and therapeutic area heads meet emerging and growth companies, and where the capital markets, M&A, partnering, and strategic questions that shape the sector are discussed in depth. Three days. Sustained working sessions every day. Sustained, high-quality engagement.
A Unique Level of Access — Proven
Bio-Neuroscience 2026 sold out. 2025 firmly established the format. 2024 proved the concept. Participant feedback from every edition confirms what the Advisory Board already knew: there is no comparable event. If you are building, funding, or partnering in CNS neuroscience — this is your room.
PARTICIPANT COMMENTS
AT BROADREACH NEURO SUMMITS
I really enjoyed being part of Bio-Neuroscience, where I had the opportunity to exchange thoughts with key stakeholders from the neuroscience ecosystem. A key event in this booming field. I really look forward to the second edition.
Raúl Ruíz-Martin
Partner - Ysios Capital
I highly recommend Bio-Neuroscience 2024. I attended the inaugural conference, it was a unique, highly interactive meeting of key neuroscience stakeholders and I am looking forward to the next edition.
Mary Chamberlain-Tharp
Chief Business Officer - Neumora

VISION
Breaking Down Silos — By Design
Convening translational scientists, clinicians, regulatory leaders, CEOs, pharma decision-makers and the most active investors in one curated space — and designing a program where genuine interaction, not broadcast, is the norm.
Convening the Full Value Chain of CNS Neuroscience Drug Development.
Bio-Neuroscience was built on a single conviction: the most important advances in CNS drug development happen when the right people are in the same room — with the depth, trust and time to go beyond the surface and into the real conversation.
Driving Transformational Connections and Partnering
Delivering the access, engagement and sustained discussion that creates real partnerships — for startups seeking capital and co-development, for investors building portfolios, and for pharma teams identifying the next generation of neuroscience assets.
Accelerating Value Creation Across the Sector
Providing the insight, feedback and peer engagement that founders, CEOs and decision-makers need to sharpen their thinking, validate their direction, and move faster — with confidence — in a complex and rapidly evolving field.
Ultimately, It's About Patients
Everything we do — every session, every connection, every deal that begins at Bio-Neuroscience — is oriented toward a single outcome: better therapies, delivered faster, for the patients and families living with neurological disease.
WHY NOW?
CNS Drug Development Is at an Inflection Point
Rational drug discovery is no longer aspirational — it is happening. New biomarkers, validated targets, maturing gene therapy platforms, and a new generation of RNA-based modalities are transforming what is possible in neuroscience. The tools have caught up with the ambition.
Capital Is Moving— and So Are Deals
Investor and industry interest in CNS neuroscience is surging, even as markets recalibrate. Partnerships, licenses, acquisitions and co-development deals are being structured at pace. The leaders making those decisions are in this room — and the conversations that start here become the transactions that define the sector.
The Right Moment. The Right City.
Bio-Neuroscience 2027 opens on 9 February — almost 4 weeks after the JPM Healthcare Conference, when the sector's key decision-makers are deal-focused and ready to move. Amsterdam, Europe's neuroscience capital and home to one of the world's leading neuroscience research institutes, provides the ideal setting for what comes next.
Three Editions. One Verdict
The 2024 edition established the concept. 2025 firmly confirmed Bio-Neuroscience as the leading science-business-investment meeting in the sector. 2026 was greatly over-subscribed — with outstanding feedback from every participant category. The 2027 edition is already in high demand. There has never been a better or more necessary time to be in this room.

MEET OUR ADVISORY BOARD
ADVISORY BOARD 2027
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Robert Thorne
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Denali Fellow - Denali Therapeutics
Adjunct Associate Professor - University of Minnesota
Past President - International Brain Barriers Society (IBBS)
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Pablo Sardi
Global Head, Rare & Neurologic Diseases Therapeutic Area - Sanofi
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Karen LaRochelle
SVP, Global Business Development & Strategy - Merz Therapeutics
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Stacie Weninger
Executive Director - F-Prime Biomedical Research Initiative
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Rita Balice-Gordon
Chief Executive Officer - Muna Therapeutics
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Claire Leurent
Managing Director - AbbVie Ventures
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Arno de Wilde
Managing Director - EQT Life Sciences
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Juan Carlos Lopez
Managing Director - Haystack Science, formerly Chief Editor - Nature Medicine & Founding Editor - Nature Reviews Neuroscience
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Philip Scheltens
Head, Dementia Fund, Partner - EQT Life Sciences
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Kees Been
Chief Executive Officer - Kynexis Therapeutics Inc.
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Jessica Atkinson
Chief Business Officer - VectorY Therapeutics
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Andrea Soto Padilla
Business Development - Amsterdam UMC
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Bruce Leuchter
President & CEO - Neurvati Neurosciences
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Hakan Goker
Managing Director, Head of Healthcare & Life Sciences - M-Ventures
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Pieter van Bokhoven
Chief Scientific Officer - IXA Amsterdam Neuroscience UMC
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Christian J. Suojanen
Founder & CEO - Broadreach Global,
Chairman, Bio-Neuroscience Initiative
MEET THE SPEAKERS
BIO-NEUROSCIENCE SPEAKERS — 2027
Announcing the first round of confirmed speakers at Bio-Neuroscience 2027.
Check back monthly for updates and when the full line up is announced after the summer break!
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Oskar Hansson
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Vice President of Neurodegeneration Discovery and Early Phase Clinical Development — Eli Lilly and Company
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Joerg Holenz
Chief Scientific Officer & Executive Board Member — Bial (or colleague)
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Gunilla Oswald
CEO — BioArctic
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Kasper Roet
Co-Founder & CEO — QurAlis
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Matti Karvonen
CMO — Kasvu Therapeutics
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Kimberly Scearce-Levie
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Chief Scientific Officer — Manifold Bio
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Tarek Samad
EVP, Head of Research & Development — Lundbeck
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Joachim Reischl
VP, External Innovation Diagnostics; Head, Neurodegenerative Franchise — Danaher
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Mark Rus
CEO — Delix Therapeutics
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Martin Jönsson
CEO — AlzeCure Pharma
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Richard Hargreaves
SVP & Head of Neuroscience — Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS)
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Špela Miroševič
Founding President - CTNNB1 Foundation
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Cillian King
Partner — EQT Life Sciences
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Cecilia Jiménez-Mallebrera
Group Leader, Neuromuscular Diseases Research — Hospital Sant Joan de Déu
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Kabir Nath
CEO — Compass Pathways
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Stefan König
CEO — Merz Therapeutics
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Gilbert di Paolo
Therapeutic Area Leader for Dementias — Roche, Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED)
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Julien de Bournet
Chief Executive Officer, As2Bio — Foundation for Angelman Syndrome Therapeutics (FAST)
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Per-Ola Freskgård
VP of Science & Technology (CSO) — BioArctic
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Russ Lebovitz
CEO — Amprion
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Rafał Kamiński
Chief Scientific Officer — Angelini Pharma
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Charalampos Tzoulis
Director, ICoN / Neuro-SysMed / KG Jebsen Center for PD — University of Bergen
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Yael Weiss
CEO — Mahzi Therapeutics
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Jack O'Meara
CEO — Aerska
2027 PROGRAM
A 3-DAY IMMERSION
Bio-Neuroscience 2027 is structured across three intensive days of plenary sessions, investor panels, fireside chats, pre-summit roundtables, startup pitches, and sustained networking — all in the same venue, with the same curated group.
The program is developed with the Advisory Board and reflects the sector's most pressing scientific, commercial, regulatory and financial questions.
Day I — Tuesday, 9 February 2027
Arrival & Accreditation
Pre-Summit Roundtable Sessions, Networking & Inauguration
Official Welcome Networking Reception & Dinner
Day II — Wednesday, 10 February 2027
Full-Day Program:
Keynotes & Fireside Chats
Science, Investment, Market, Pipeline and Partnering
Hosted Networking Lunch
Hosted End of End-of-DayReception & Walking Dinner
Day III — Thursday, 11 February 2027
Full-Day Program:
Keynotes & Fireside Chats
Topical Sessions on Gene Therapy, Novel Modalities, Cutting Edge Science & Breakthrough Innovations
Industry Partnering, Case Studies, Collaboration & Co-Development
Company Pitch Sessions
Bio-Neuroscience Awards & Closing Tapas & Drinks Reception
Note: The full 2026 Program is available by clicking the orange button on the See 2026 Program button to the right. The 2027 program will be announced mid - summer 2026.

WHO YOU'LL MEET?
EXCLUSIVE ACCESS TO THE NEUROSCIENCE DRUG DEVELOPMENT DECISION-MAKING COMMUNITY
Over three days of high-level plenary sessions, interactive roundtables, networking, hosted lunches and receptions — one curated group, sustained engagement.
FOUNDERS & CEOS
Founders, CEOs and C-level executives from the most innovative CNS neuroscience biotech companies in the sector. The builders of tomorrow's therapies.
INVESTORS
Managing Partners, Partners, Managing Directors and Directors from the most active CNS-focused VC funds, corporate venture arms, private equity firms, family offices, and philanthropic foundations. The capital behind the science.
INDUSTRY LEADERS
Heads of Therapeutic Area, Business Development & Licensing, Alliance Management, Strategy, Portfolio Innovation and Scouting from pharma and large biotech. The buyers, collaborators and partners.
KEY OPINION LEADERS
Leading translational scientists, clinicians, regulatory experts, biomarker specialists, and clinical development leaders contributing the scientific and clinical context that grounds the business discussion.
GOVERNMENT, NGOs & PATIENT ORGANIZATIONS
Public funding bodies, policy makers, regulatory bodies, disease foundations, patient-driven organizations and research consortia representing the full value chain of CNS drug development.
CAPITAL MARKETS & M&A
Investment banking, M&A advisory, and strategic advisory leaders from the sector's top banks and firms — providing the financial market intelligence that shapes deal-making strategy.
WHO YOU'LL MEET
PARTICIPANTS REGULARLY INCLUDE


PRESENT YOUR COMPANY
TO THE SECTOR'S TOP INVESTORS AND DECISION-MAKERS
Bio-Neuroscience offers a small number of highly innovative CNS-focused startups and growth-stage companies the opportunity to present in the main plenary session — in front of the full audience, not tucked into a side room.
Selection is by merit and scientific/commercial potential. There is no pay-to-play.
Pre-summit guidance and feedback on your deck.
A pre-summit dry-run presentation with feedback.
5 minute presentation followed by 5 minutes Q&A with an expert panel of relevant investors and industry: In front of the full audience in the plenary session - not off in some side room!
Post Pitch Meetings
Post Pitch Meeting space to continue your Q&A, in the networking break immediately following your session.
Network Engagement
Full access to two days of sustained engagement with investors, pharma therapeutic area and BD&L leaders, and industry decision-makers across the entire summit
Exclusive Poster Display - Presenting Companies Only
Optional: dedicated poster stand to maximize visibility. For avoidance of any confusion, posters are not required and this option has no impact on selection for presentation.
VENUE
HOTEL JAKARTA, AMSTERDAM
Bio-Neuroscience brings together an outstanding mix of leaders and decision-makers in Neuroscience drug development.
HOTEL JAKARTA
Javakade 766, 1019 SH Amsterdam, Netherlands
Bio-Neuroscience 2027 returns to Hotel Jakarta — Amsterdam's most distinctive sustainable waterfront hotel, designed as a green oasis on the IJ river.
The venue was deliberately chosen for the way it works: intimate enough to foster genuine interaction, spacious enough for three days of ambitious programming and networking. Excellent natural light, a dedicated plenary space, and superior networking areas — purpose-suited to the boutique, high-intensity format of Bio-Neuroscience.

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ACCESS • INSIGHT • ENGAGEMENT • IMPACT
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