CRS 2026 Saarbrücken

CRS Welcome Note

We are excited to announce the upcoming 30th Annual Meeting of the CRS Local Chapter DeChAt jointly with the 14th edition of the biennial Conference BioBarriers.

This special event presents latest research on advanced carrier systems and complex cell culture models for drug delivery across biological barriers. Our aim is to connect leading experts and young researchers.

Preliminary Schedule

Tue/Wed - 14th International Conference on Biological Barriers

Wed/Thu - GALENOS meets TALENTS: Workshop for Young Scientists

Thu/Fri - 30th CRS DeChAt Local Chapter Meeting

Scientific Topics

Advanced Drug Delivery Technologies

Microphysiological in vitro Models (“on the Chip”)

Infectious Diseases and Microbiota

Career Development Workshops

Networking

Poster Sessions

Industry Exhibition

Preliminary Program

Confirmed Invited Speakers

Cameron Alexander (Nottingham, UK)

Ana Beloqui (Louvain, BE)

Elias Fattal (Paris, FR)

Hamid Ghandehari (Salt Lake City, US)

Rainer Haag (Berlin, DE)

Sarah Hedtrich (Vancouver, CA)

Anna Hirsch (Saarbruecken, DE)

Andreas Keller (Saarbruecken, DE)

Hagar Labouta (Toronto, CA)

Karsten Lindhardt (Copenhagen, DK)

Jens Puschhof (Heidelberg, DE)

Otmar Schmid (Munich, DE)

Avi Schröder (Haifa, IL)

Simone Schürle (Zurich, CH)

Maria Vicent (Valencia, ES)

Wilfried Weber (Saarbruecken, DE)

Maike Windbergs (Frankfurt, DE)

Elisabeth Zeisberg (Goettingen, DE)

Registration

Please register for the conference by following this direction:

Membership

Interested to become a Member of our CRS community? Please follow this direction:

Member

Abstract Submission

We invite you to submit an abstract for oral or poster presentation.

Please submit your abstract by following this direction:

Submit

Only contributions with minimum 1 registered author will be considered.

Abstract format:

Language is English
Abstracts cannot exceed 1 A4 page
Body text (max. 1500 characters incl. spaces, with optional one picture.
References (max. 3) are numbered and formatted as follows: Authors (Year).
Publication name Volume, Pages. DOI.

Optionally, accepted abstracts can be included in the conference proceedings published at PharmRxiv repository (https://pharmrxiv.de).

Authors will be informed regarding acceptance by End of January 2026.

Accommodation

Saarbrücken offers plenty of options for accommodation but we invite you to finalize your reservation as soon as possible, as other conferences will take place on these same days.

We have blocked some stock rooms in the following hotels.

Please use the code:

BB26

HOTEL DOMICIL LEIDINGER

Mainzer Str. 10-12

www.leidinger-saarbruecken.de

B&B HOTEL Saarbrücken-Hbf

Europallee 14

B&B HOTELS Deutschland | Offizielle Website

HOLIDAY INN EXPRESS

Klausener Straße 4-6

www.ihg.com/holidayinnexpress/hotels/de/de/saarbrucken/scnsb/hoteldetail