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12th Annual IBA World Life Sciences Conference

3 Jun - 5 Jun 2026

Session information

Hot topic roundtables

Thursday 4 June (0940 - 1230)

Description

Collaboration and licensing structures as financing tools
The new frontiers of telemedicine
Cross-border investment constraints affecting financings and exits (CFIUS risk, sensitive health/genomic data, and closing conditions)
Cooperations between and vertical integration of pharma/medtech and hospitals/clinics/pharmacies etc [SF1.1]
GLP‑1s: are legal frameworks keeping pace with the weight‑loss revolution?
Resolving international patent licensing disputes by arbitration – recurring issues and new developments
Liability and accountability in open science research
The future of supplementary protection: are SPCs still fit for purpose?
Advertising, labelling and influencer promotion of medicinal products
Combination products (drug-device) regulation
Causes and consequences of ‘medical device and drugs lag’
Whistleblower actions and anti-fraud enforcement trends in the healthcare industry
When pharmaceutical patent enforcement leads to damages – for either side
Pricing of medicines: an international perspective
Ethical and legal challenges of human genome editing

Speakers

Andrea Abascal	Bofill Mir Abogados, Santiago, Chile; Conference Quality Officer, Healthcare and Life Sciences Law Committee
Joana Botelho	Cuatrecasas, Lisbon, Portugal
Gustaf Duhs	Stevens & Bolton, Guildford, England
Jordi Faus	Faus & Moliner Abogados SLP, Barcelona, Spain
Francisco Javier García Pérez	Uria Menendez, Barcelona, Spain
Monika Gattiker	DGS Rechtsanwälte Steuerexperten, Zürich, Switzerland; Treasurer, Healthcare and Life Sciences Law Committee
Philipp Groz	Schellenberg Wittmer, Zürich, Switzerland
Tímea Halkó	Gedeon Richter, Budapest, Hungary
Yuval Horn	Gornitzky & Co, Tel Aviv, Israel; Member, Technology Law Committee Advisory Board
Joanna Krakowiak	Wardynski & Partners, Warsaw, Poland
Jose Alejandro Luna Fandino	Olivares, Mexico City, Mexico
Sir Guilherme Mendonça	Coloplast, São Paulo, Brazil
Hugo Monteiro de Queirós	PLMJ, Lisbon, Portugal
Jackie Mulryne	Morgan Lewis, London, England
Sean Murray	Knobbe Martens Olson and Bear LLP, Irvine, California, USA
Ricardo Nascimento Ferreira	Morais Leitão, Lisbon, Portugal
Matthias Nordmann	SKW Schwarz , Munich, Germany
Adeniji Oni	Niji Oni & Co, Lagos, Nigeria; Senior Vice Chair, Agriculture and Food Section
Francisca Paulouro	VdA Vieira de Almeida, Lisbon, Portugal
Leonor Pissarra	SRS Legal, Lisbon, Portugal
Elysangela Rabelo	Demarest Advogados, São Paulo, Brazil; Chair, Life Sciences Subcommittee
Ioana Ratescu	Novartis Pharma AG, Basel, Switzerland
Janine Reudt-Demont	Niederer Kraft Frey AG, Zürich, Switzerland; Social Media and Website Officer, Healthcare and Life Sciences Law Committee
Anderson Ribeiro	Souto Correa Advogados, São Paulo, Brazil; Scholarship Officer, Healthcare and Life Sciences Law Committee
Markus Schott	Baer & Karrer, Zürich, Switzerland; Vice Chair, Healthcare and Life Sciences Law Committee
Christopher Stovin	Incyte Biosciences, Lausanne, Switzerland
Koen T'Syen	Van Bael & Bellis, Brussels, Belgium
Lincoln Tsang	Ropes & Gray LLP, London, England
Tess Waldron	Powell Gilbert LLP, London, England
Conna Weiner	Conna Weiner ADR, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Milena Yakimova	Baxter International , Sofia, Bulgaria

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