🚀🍀Thank you, Lindau Nobel Laureate Meetings (Christoph Schumacher) and Falling Walls Foundation, for nominating and inviting me to the #FallingWalls #ScienceSummit24 in Berlin!
🕊Commemorating the fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, the summit is the leading forum that has united the world's greatest minds to break down barriers in various scientific fields, including biology, climate change, human-centric science, astronomy, AI and quantum technologies.
🎖I am pleased that some speakers were from our Lindau Alumni and Marie Curie Alumni Association communities. 🏆Congratulations to all the speakers and the winners of the Breakthrough of the Year categories!
🚨I had many moments of, 'Why didn't I think of that?' and, 'This one is going to the textbook.' Out of the 500+ talks, here are some of my highlights from the summit:
- 🔥🌪Particle accelerator the size of a smartphone (TAU Systems)
- 🔬🌟Reversible hydrogel implant to transform women’s reproductive health (Inge K Herrmann, ETH AI Center)
- 💉🔐Brain Tumour vaccines (Michael Platten, Tcelltech GmbH, DKFZ German Cancer Research Center)
- 🦋👘 Sustainable nature colours from crystalline cellulose (Benjamin Droguet, Sparxell)
- 🗝🧩The world's first Nanozymes that combine the best of traditional catalysts and enzymes (Seadna Quigley, Level Nine)
- 💊🧬Preventing Graft-versus-Host Disease after stem cell transplantation (Andrea Tüttenberg, ActiTrexx GmbH)
- ⚓️🌊Harnessing the ocean's capacity to offset carbon and stabilise climate (Katja Matthes, GEOMAR Helmholtz-Zentrum für Ozeanforschung Kiel);
- 🍮💬Communication climate data into multisensory edible experiences of taste, smell, texture, and touch (Tiange Wang, IDEO)
- ❗️🔗Understanding the mechanism of blind obedience and the importance of role models in preventing genocide. “You can just be a very ordinary person but still do things that are amazing.” (Emilie Caspar, Ghent University).
- 🚢🧪Transforming harmful algae into valuable, sustainable products (Mari Granström, Origin by Ocean)
- 🍏🥨How to feed the world in 2050: Patricia Gruber (U.S. Department of State), Jack A Bobo (University of Nottingham), Akua Antwi-Agyakwa (Cocoa Research Institute of Ghana).
- 🤖⚡️Europe's path to innovation/Deep tech: Monika Lessl, PhD (Bayer Foundation, Bayer), Michiel Scheffer (European Commission)
- ⚕️🥽 Holistic oncological care by combining nanotechnology, dermaceuticals, and tissue regeneration (Dr Marianna Prokopi-Demetriades, RSL Revolutionary Labs Ltd),
- 🎯☄️Networking with responsible VCs, foundations and fellow scientists from across the globe and disciplines.
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