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Endotrain PhD kick off and Eurosensor meeting 2026

Eurosensors 2026 & EndoTrain PhD kick-off

Endotrain will be attending the Eurosensors Meeting (external link) in Zurich, Sept 2026
The conference will be followed by our first official gathering with all our new PhD students and their PIs

We have collated a list of reading materials for the students to familiarize themselves with before the sessions:

READING MATERIALS

PROGRAMME

9th – 11th September 2026, Zurich

Wednesday 9th September

Venue: ETH Hönggerberg, Joseph von Deschwanden Platz 1 (Room HPH G1)

08:30-09:00 Arrival & coffee

Plenary Talk 5. Chair: Helge Ræder

09:00-09:55 Managing Health Through Remote Monitoring: Mike Snyder

EndoTrain Special Session 1.1 at Eurosensors 2026 (Room HPV G4)

Session I: Continuous health monitoring in medicine. Chaired by Walter Karlen & Luis Fernandez-Luque

10:00-10:15 Cortisol And Luteinizing Hormone. A Tale Of Two Aptamers: Tony Cass
10:15-10:30 A System For All Day Biosampling: Microdialysis And Wearables Collide: Thomas Upton
10:30-10:45 Tissue Corticosteroid Rhythms Are Dysregulated Mainly During Sleep In Primary Aldosteronism: Marianne Grytaas
10:45-11:00 Ultradian Monitoring In Adrenal Insufficiency: Ileana Botusan
11:00-11:30 Coffee break

EndoTrain special session 2.1 at Eurosensors 2026 (Room HPV G4)

Session II: Continuous health monitoring in medicine. Chaired by Tony Cass & Felix Beuschlein

Venue: ETH Hönggerberg, Joseph von Deschwanden Platz 1

11:30-11:45 Electrochemical Sensors And Biosensors For Biomedical And Clinical Applications: Danny O’Hare
11:45-12:00 From Rigid To Flexible And Stretchable Hollow Microneedle Patches: Integrated Microfluidic Platforms For Dermal Interstitial Fluid Extraction And Intradermal Therapeutic Delivery: Wenting Shu
12:00-12:15 Managing Data Integrity In Medical Wearables: Walter Karlen
12:15-12:30 Mathematical Modelling At The Interface Of Digital Endocrinology And Wearable Sensing Technologies: Eder Zavala
12:30-12:45 «How Are You Today?» Harnessing Speech As A Window Into Life With A Chronic Disease: Viktor von Wyl
12:45-13:00 Participatory AI In Endocrinology: Supporting Shared Decision-Making Through Multimodal Sensing: Luis Fernandez-Luque
13:00-14:30 Lunch

Eurosensors Ends – over to EndoTrain specific programme

Venue: ETH, Rämistrasse 101 – NOTE venue change

Session III: DC pitches

Moderator Eystein Husebye

14:30-15:30 Three-minute pitch from each DC - All DCs (template to be provided).
15:30-16:00 Coffee break

Session IV: Fireside chat

Chaired by Felix Beuschlein

16:00-17:00 Lessons learned from precision medicine studies with wearables over the years: Mike Snyder
17:00- End – time to socialise or recharge batteries back at hotels!
from 19:00 Dinner: Restaurant Safran - with pre-dinner mingling

Thursday 10^th September

Venue: ETH, Rämistrasse 101

Session V: Welcome to EndoTrain

08:30-08:45 Welcome to EndoTrain – aim & organization – logo competition!: Eystein Husebye
08:45-10:00 PhD life – students only! MSCA Guidelines on supervision; community Liz Farmer & postdocs
10:00-10:15 Coffee break Supervisors and PIs re-join the group
10:15-10:30 Training aspects Helge Ræder
10:30-10:45 Outreach & dissemination Luis Fernandez-Luque

Session VI: Work packages

10:45-11:15 WP1 overview: Clinical modules Thomas Uslar
11:15-11:45 WP2 overview: The wearable suite and data management Walter Karlen
11:45-12:15 WP3 overview: Analysis, clinical data + ML integration, longitudinal data, n=1 to cohorts, signal extraction, noise and validation Eder Zavala & Tony Cass
12:15-13:15 Lunch
13:15-14:45 WP4 overview & workshop (Ethics, Regulatory and ethical considerations) Vanessa Nurock & Malgorzata Cyndecka
14:45-15:15 Coffee break

Session VII: Entrepreneurship & innovation and the industry-academia interface

15:15-15:45 How to build companies in Europe Danny O’Hare
15:45-16:15 How to build companies in the US Mike Snyder

Session VIII: Roundtable or fireside chat

16:30-17:30 Keys to building successful companies Mike Snyder & Danny O’Hare
17:30-19:00 Social mingling before relaxed dinner
19:00 Dinner – location TBA

Friday 11^th September