Programme

IMBRAIN & ISBAP 2026 – Málaga (España) · April 16th-18th, 2026

THURSDAY, APRIL 16Th

08:30h

Registration (All day)

09:00 – 09:15h

Opening Ceremony & Welcome
Local Authorities & ISBAP SC

10:30 – 11:30h

Symposium S1: Bioactive Peptides in the CNS: Circuits, Plasticity & Neurogenesis

  • Heteroreceptor Complexes in the Living Brain: From Receptor Crosstalk to Therapeutic Targeting. Speaker: Prof. Kjell Fuxe (Karolinska Institutet)

  • Selected Oral Communications (2 x 15’ each)

10:30 – 11:30h

Coffee Break and Poster Session P1

(Exhibition Hall)

11:30 – 13:00h

Symposium S1: Oral Communications
(6 x 15’)

13:00 – 14:00h

Networking Cocktail

14:00 – 16:00h

Symposium S2: Intranasal & Other Non-Invasive Peptide Delivery

  • Intranasal application of galanin peptides. Speaker: Prof. Barbara Kofler (University in Salzburg)

  • Selected Oral Communications (6 x 15’)

16:00 – 17:00h

Coffee Break and Poster Session P2

19:00h

Welcome Reception

FRIDAY, APRIL 17TH

09:00h – 10:30h

S3 Symposium: Neuroendocrine & Metabolic Peptides

  • Beyond Weight Loss: Multi-agonists and Oral GLP-1s Linking Metabolism to Organ Health (Liver, CV, CNS). Speaker: Timo Müller (Helmholtz Munich)

  • Obesity–Hypogonadism Axis: Neuroendocrine Mechanisms to Therapeutic Opportunities. Speaker: Manuel Tena-Sempere (University of Córdoba)

  • Selected Oral Communications (2 x 15’)

10:30 – 11:30h

Coffee Break and Poster Session P3

(Exhibition Hall)

11:30 – 13:00h

Symposium S1: Oral Communications
(6 x 15’)

13:00 – 14:00h

Networking Cocktail

14:00 – 16:00h

S4 Symposium: Bioactive peptides as Biomarkers

  • VIP-Receptor axis as biomarker in Rheumatic Diseases. Speaker: Yasmina Juarranz (Complutense University of Madrid)

  • Peptide biomarkers in anorexia nervosa. Speaker: Serguei Fetissov (University of Rouen Normandy)

  • Selected Oral Communications (4 x 15’)

16:00 – 17:00h

Coffee Break and Poster Session P4

(Exhibition Hall)

19:00h – 18:00h

ISBAP General Assembly

20:00h

Gala Dinner 

(La Pergola restaurant)

SATURDAY, 18Th APRIL

9:000h – 10:30h

S5 Symposium: Bioactive peptides in Health & Diseases: physiological functions and therapeutic perspectives

  • Speaker: Elena Gonzalez-Rey (Institute of Parasitology and Biomedicine Lopez-Neyra (IPBLN), CSIC)

  • PACAP and Brain Tumors. Speaker: Agata Grazia D’Amido (University of Catania)

  • Selected Oral Communications (2x 15’ each)

10:30 – 11:30h

Coffee Break and Poster Session P5

(Exhibition Hall)

11:30 – 13:00h

Symposium S2: Oral Communications

(6 x 15’)

13:00 – 14:00h

Networking Cocktail

14:00 – 14:30h

Viktor Mutt Award Lectureship

Dr. Annette G. Beck-Sickinger

14:30 – 15:00h

Closing Remarks & Awards Ceremony