Team Meeting 16.08.2022

  • Welcome
  • DMI staffing
    • Status of current members?
      • David and Sanja will step down from DMI in late 2022
      • Anthony, Nina, Lukas, Fabian, and Tae Hoon will graduate in 2023
      • Florian and Quentin are the only “newer” members
      • Enough people until the end of the 2022. More people are urgently needed for 2023!!! How should we advertise?
      • Active DMI participants should be able to get ECTS points (as for the VMB). Opinions?
  • General stuff
    • SOPs should be updated for hybrid events: Any news?
    • DMI slack established – Thank you XY
    • Add fields in registration tool for “current status” (Master, early/mid/late PhD, PostDoc, other), “affiliation”.
      • Should be possible, AA will see to the technical stuff: Any news?
      • TK has ideas. Together with AA will find a solution
  • Events since the last meeting (24.03.2022)
    • All institutes event 08.06.2022
      • Impressions?
    • VectorBioPharma (missing on the DMI website under past events (AA will solve)
      • Orga problems with speaker who got Covid
      • How many participants?
        • 20 online
        • 10 present
      • Impressions?
    • Apero
  • Apero at DMI events
    • DMI events were famous for an amazing apero
    • The budget for the Apero is ~ 500 CHF
    • We have to decide on apero setup and keep it consistent. How to proceed from now on?
      • Falken apero -> very convenient but very expensive. For our budget, we cannot get much
    • Options
      • Apero lady (ST has contact): nice but expensive
      • Pay with both DMI money and sponsor

  • Event Agenda 2022
  • Techlounge
    • 12th or 5th October
  • 26.10.2022 – CSEM – Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology
    • Start 18:00
    • CSEM will sponsor the apero
    • Try to organize event in the SL
  • 23.11.2022 – LYO-X – specialized in Modelling & Simulation and Systems Pharmacology for preclinical and clinical development Biotherapeutics.
    • Start 18:00
    • LYO-X will sponsor the apero
    • Speaker: Jannik Vollmer (DBSSE alumni) among others
  • There is a space for one more event in December (week 2nd) or the end of January. Any ideas?
    • Some sort of seminar would be nice. Try and get in touch with a HR person to do something similar as with GeneData
    • Tech transfer focused
  • In the pipeline
    • Startup Ecosystem Event
      • Idea: tell the story of a startup and have a panel of key persons involved
      • Will meet with DeepCDR in April to discuss (DS+LH)
      • FB has good contacts with early-stage funders (Christian Schneider)
      • Radio silence
    • BAG contacted but radio silence
    • Lonza could be interesting. ST has contacts.
    • Once had a chat with McKinsey. They would be open to doing something with us. We would have to initiate.
    • Tilmann Kuenzel (patent lawyer) is interested but too busy at the moment (ST)
    • Benjamin Haefliger (market access manager) is interested but just changed jobs (AA)