PRiME Swiss-Canadian Innovation Symposium – Nov 14, 2025

Session Description

The University of Toronto’s Precision Medicine Initiative (PRiME) and the Embassy of Switzerland in Canada, are hosting this event.

They are thrilled to have 11 distinguished speakers from Switzerland and Canada. These leaders are shaping the future of AI-driven precision oncology and drug discovery. 

​Event highlights:

• ​​Keynote talks from leaders in AI and precision medicine
• ​Fireside chats with industry experts
• ​Networking opportunities

Meet the Swiss speakers:

• Bernd Wollscheid – Professor, Head of the Institute of Translational Medicine, ETH Zürich
• Nicolas Thomä – Full Professor, Paternot Chair in Cancer Research, École polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL)
• Paola Picotti – Full Professor, Department of Biology; Head, Institute for Molecular Systems Biology, ETH Zürich
• Roger Schibli – Head, Center for Radiopharmaceutical Sciences, Paul Scherrer Institute; Full Professor, Department of Chemistry and Applied Biosciences, ETH Zürich
• Valentina Boeva – Assistant Professor, Institute for Machine Learning, Department of Computer Science, ETH Zürich

Meet the Canadian speakers:

• Alison McGuigan – Professor of Chemical Engineering and Applied Chemistry and the Institute for Biomedical Engineering, University of Toronto
• Cheryl Arrowsmith – Senior Scientist, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, UHN; Chief Scientific Officer, Structural Genomics Consortium, Toronto
• Gang Zheng – Associate Research Director, Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
• Hartland Jackson – Investigator, Lunenfeld-Tanenbaum Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital
• Igor Stagljar – Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, Donnelly Centre, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
• Matthieu Schapira – Professor of Pharmacology & Toxicology; Principal Investigator, Structural Genomics Consortium, University of Toronto

More details: https://live-prime2.pantheonsite.io/swiss-canadian-innovation-symposium/.