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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

A wonderfully intimate conference, where relevant topics were addressed and the presence of many people from industry, the investor community and academia enabled me to productively network with old friends and make new connections. The event offered a real sense of common purpose toward breaking through the "last frontier", that is treating diseases of the CNS.

Kees Been

CEO - Kynexis Therapeutics

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

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

Robert Thorne

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Denali Fellow - Denali Therapeutics
Adjunct Associate Professor - University of Minnesota
Past President - International Brain Barriers Society (IBBS)

Pablo Sardi

Global Head, Rare & Neurologic Diseases Therapeutic Area - Sanofi

Karen LaRochelle

SVP, Global Business Development & Strategy - Merz Therapeutics

Stacie Weninger

Executive Director - F-Prime Biomedical Research Initiative

Rita Balice-Gordon

Chief Executive Officer - Muna Therapeutics

Claire Leurent

Managing Director - AbbVie Ventures

Arno de Wilde

Managing Director - EQT Life Sciences

Juan Carlos Lopez

Managing Director - Haystack Science, formerly Chief Editor - Nature Medicine & Founding Editor - Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Philip Scheltens

Head, Dementia Fund, Partner - EQT Life Sciences

Kees Been

Chief Executive Officer - Kynexis Therapeutics Inc.

Jessica Atkinson

Chief Business Officer - VectorY Therapeutics

Andrea Soto Padilla

Business Development - Amsterdam UMC

Bruce Leuchter

President & CEO - Neurvati Neurosciences

Hakan Goker

Managing Director, Head of Healthcare & Life Sciences - M-Ventures

Pieter van Bokhoven

Chief Scientific Officer - IXA Amsterdam Neuroscience UMC

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!

Oskar Hansson

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Senior Vice President, Neurodegeneration Discovery and Early Phase Clinical Development — Eli Lilly and Company

Joerg Holenz

Chief Scientific Officer & Executive Board Member — Bial (or colleague)

Kasper Roet

Co-Founder & CEO — QurAlis

Yael Weiss

CEO — Mahzi Therapeutics

Matti Karvonen

CMO — Kasvu Therapeutics

Lars Christian Wilde

Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer - Pangea Bio

David Dexter

Research Director, Parkinson’s UK — Professor of Neuropharmacology, Imperial College London

Kimberly Scearce-Levie

KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Chief Scientific Officer — Manifold Bio

Špela Miroševič

Founding President - CTNNB1 Foundation

Gunilla Oswald

CEO — BioArctic

Cillian King

Partner — EQT Life Sciences

Martin Jönsson

CEO — AlzeCure Pharma

Jeremiah Hinson

Chief Scientific Officer, Neuroscience — Danaher Corporation

Nick Sireau

Executive Chairman& Co-Founder — Serenatis Bio

Richard Hargreaves

SVP & Head of Neuroscience — Bristol Myers Squibb (BMS)

Terry Pirovolakis

Founder & CEO - Elpida Therapeutics

Joachim Reischl

VP, External Innovation Diagnostics; Head, Neurodegenerative Franchise — Danaher

Mark Rus

CEO — Delix Therapeutics

Cecilia Jiménez-Mallebrera

Group Leader, Neuromuscular Diseases Research — Hospital Sant Joan de Déu

Mathias Frederiksen

Senior Principal — Novartis Venture Fund

James Gorman

Principal Investigator, Brain Targeting Program — Wyss Institute at Harvard

Stefan König

CEO — Merz Therapeutics

Gilbert Di Paolo

Therapeutic Area Leader for Dementias — Roche, Pharma Research and Early Development (pRED)

Javier García Cogorro

Co-Founder & General Partner — Columbus Venture Partners
Founder & Member of the Board of Trustees — Fundación Columbus

Per-Ola Freskgård

VP of Science & Technology (CSO) — BioArctic

Russ Lebovitz

CEO — Amprion

Maria Luisa Pineda

CEO & Co-Founder - Envisagenics

Rafał Kamiński

Chief Scientific Officer — Angelini Pharma

Charalampos Tzoulis

Director, ICoN / Neuro-SysMed / KG Jebsen Center for PD — University of Bergen

Julien de Bournet

Chief Executive Officer, As2Bio — Foundation for Angelman Syndrome Therapeutics (FAST)

Jack O'Meara

CEO — Aerska

Kabir Nath

CEO — Compass Pathways

Tarek Samad

EVP, Global Head of Research & Development — Lundbeck (or colleague)

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

14:00 – Welcome & Official Inauguration
14:30 – Targeting Rare Neurological Diseases
15:30 – Foundations & Innovative Funding Models
16:15 – Afternoon Coffee Break
16:45 – The Investment Bank View: Deal Landscape in Neuroscience
17:15 – Start-up Elevator Pitches
18:00 – Welcome Reception & Networking

Day II — Wednesday, 10 February 2027

09:00 – Opening Remarks
09:15 – Next-Generation Brain Shuttles
10:00 – BBB / Brain Shuttle Discussion Panel
10:45 – Morning Coffee Break
11:15 – Advanced Modalities: RNA, ASOs, & the AOC Pivot
12:00 – Fireside Chat I: Watch for the announcement!
12:45 – Lunch Break
13:45 – Company Presentations
14:30 – Psychiatry's Renaissance
15:15 – Neuroplastogens
16:00 – Afternoon Coffee Break
16:30 – The Deal Room: CEO Perspective
17:15 – Investor Session
18:00 – End of Day II & Networking Reception

Day III — Thursday, 11 February 2027

09:00 – Opening Remarks
09:15 – Biomarker Keynote
09:45 – Biomarker Breakthrough Year
10:30 – Morning Coffee Break
11:00 – AI / ML in Neuroscience Drug Development
12:00 – Fireside Chat II: Watch for the announcement!
12:45 – Lunch Break
13:45 – Company Presentations
14:30 – Pharma Neuroscience Priorities
15:30 – Final Roundtable Discussion with the Audience
16:00 – Bio-Neuroscience Awards & Closing Remarks
16:15 – End of Summit & Networking Reception

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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

EVENT REGISTRATION INFO

Join the most exclusive gathering of neuroscience CEOs, investors, pharma decision-makers and innovators in the sector.

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!

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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.