Speed Lecture Award 2025
The stage is yours!
When an international audience from the healthcare industry and academia is marveling, laughing and giving ovations after only a three-minute presentation, most likely they just witnessed a Speed Lecture at Berlin´s annual networking event BIONNALE.
The HealthCapital Cluster Berlin-Brandenburg and the vfa, the association of research-based pharmaceutical companies are looking to award the most creative, entertaining and captivating research pitches.
Our finalists in 2025
We proudly announce the Speed Lecture Award finalists in 2025 that had been selected by our jury. Congratulations to all of them and good luck for your final performance on May 14th at Ludwig Erhard Haus in Berlin!
- Tanushka Rana, Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie im Forschungsverbund Berlin e.V. (FMP): Night at the Lysosome, club of the cell
- Tsendmaa Tsengenbayar, German Institute of Human Nutrition Potsdam-Rehbruecke (DIfE): The Mysteries of Food and Reward
- Michelle Zimmer, EPO Berlin-Buch GmbH: Blood-brain barrier modelling in Organ-on-Chip technology for brain cancer drug development
- Janina Stadter, Berlin Institute of Health at Charité/Blueprint Biomed - Bridging the gap: Advanced implants for bone defect regeneration
- Clara Vázquez García, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine: Decoding antibodies to predict disease risk
- Anja Himmelstein, MucosaTec GmbH: Mucus matters - the natural way to boost your mucus!
- Ahmed Ali, Technical University Berlin: Humanized liver models for toxicity testing
You can watch their final pitches and vote for them on May 14th, 18:00-19:00 at our BIONNALE in Berlin.
Register now for free: https://bionnale2025.b2match.io/
Please find below more information about the Speed Lecture Award.
Who can apply?
Young researcher and developers (up to junior post doc or job starters) working on a great discovery, application or invention in (medical) biotech, pharma, medtech or digital health. You can apply individually or as a team up to three members.
What´s in for you?
- Three pitch coaching sessions in March & April 2025
- Visibility among life sciences experts from academia and industry at the final at the BIONNALE on May 14 in Berlin
- Prize money up to € 1.000.
Deadline for application (is closed):
Feb 06th 2025.
What is needed?
Please fill in this form (will take 5 min): LINK.
Next steps:
After a pre-selection, applicants are asked to submit a short abstract about the research project and a slide show showing how they are planning to present the project to the audience at the BIONNALE event.
An independent jury selects the finalists. They will receive three professional pitch coaching sessions and can present their projects to international experts from life sciences at the final during the BIONNALE event on May 14th. The audience will then act as the jury and select the first three places. The winners will receive up to 1000 € prize money.
Stay tuned and follow us on LinkedIn #SpeedLectureAward OR contact me regarding your questions:
Dr. Jasmin Podufall
jasmin.podufall@berlin-partner.de
+49 30 46302 122.
The Speed Lecture Award is organized by the healthcare industries cluster Berlin-Brandenburg – HealthCapital and supported by the German Association of Research–based Pharmaceutical Companies, vfa.
