Programme

The livestreamed sessions will be recorded for on-demand viewing until 26 January 2025 (registered participants only).

The official language of the this meeting is English. No translation and/or subtitles will be provided during the sessions

  Monday 20 January 2025
 Time                       Session 
 13.30-14.00 Registration and coffee            
 14.00-14.30 Welcome, introduction, and the Precision Psychiatry Roadmap Initiative
Chair: Martien Kas, The Netherlands
 14.30-15.15 Opening lecture: Bridging the gaps towards precision psychiatry: mechanistic biomarkers for early detection and intervention
Speaker: Kim Q. Do, Switzerland
 15.15-15.45
Discussion and Q&A
 15.45-16.15 Break
 16.15-17.45

Session 1: Biomarker development and validation
Chair: Derek Buhl, United States

 16.15-16.45
1. Biomarker selection and alignment in a global prospective cohort study of clinical high risk for psychosis
Speaker: Michael Sand, United States 
 16.45-17.15 2. Stimulating future precision psychiatry biomarker development programmes
Speaker: Rouba Kozak, United States 
 17.15-17.45
3. Industry perspective and application of precision psychiatry biomarkers
Speaker: Elizabeth Tunbridge, Germany
 17.45-18.45
Discussion and conclusions day 1
 18.45-19.15
Drinks 
 19.15-late
Networking dinner

 

 

  Tuesday 21 January 2025
 Time                       Session 
 08.30-12.00 Session 2: Subtyping patient populations
Chair: Peter Falkai, Germany   
 08.30-09.00 1. Diagnostic formulations in precisions psychiatry
Speaker: Maria Oquendo, United States
 09.00-09.30 2. Brain-derived measures for psychosis biotyping
Speaker: Carol Tamminga, United States 
 09.30-10.00
3. Neuro-imaging markers for precision psychiatry: depression as an example
Speaker: Nikolaos Koutsouleris, Germany
 10.00-10.30 Coffee break
 10.30-11.00
4. Multimodal biomarkers
Speaker: Gitte Knudsen, Denmark
 11.00-12.00
Panel discussion with speakers and a representative of the European Medical Agency
Ewa Bałkowiec-Iskra, Poland
 12.00-12.45 Lunch
 12.45-15.00
Session 3: Targeted interventions in stratified patient groups
Chair: Andreas Reif, Germany
 12.45-13.15
1. Immuno-metabolic depression: strategies and treatment options
Speaker: Brenda Penninx, Netherlands
 13.15-13.45
2. Patient stratification and psychotherapy
Speaker: Frank J. Padberg, Germany
 13.45-14.15
3. The future of precision psychiatry: an industry perspective
Speaker: Wayne C. Drevets, United States 
 14.15-14.55 Panel discussion with speakers, a patient representative Shaun Johnson, United Kingdom, payers’ representative
 14.55-15.00 Conclusions and closing words