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Participants at BME-conference 2025.
Participants at BME-conference 2025.
Participants at BME-conference 2025.

BME@LiU 2026, Monday 25 May, Linköping

Welcome to the 7th annual biomedical engineering conference!

BME@LiU is a day filled with activities related to the field of biomedical engineering (BME). From invited and contributed talks, to posters, exhibitions, and mingling. These activities reach out to all researchers, companies, organisations, students and clinicians who support, contribute to, or utilise BME technologies.

Biomedical Engineering, or MedTech, lies at the intersection of many of LiU's strength and strategic areas. It involves development of state-of-the-art technologies such as biosensors, medical imaging, AI, eHealth, visualization, with many applications in Life Sciences, for example circulatory and metabolic diseases, inflammation, neurological diseases and cancer.

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Register for BME@LiU 2026

Register for the event, submit an abstract for presentations (oral or poster) and/or reserve a table at our Research & Innovation Arena.

Date and Programme

Preliminary programme overview 

8.30–8.35 Welcome from IMT

Elin Nyman, head of department

8.35–9.00 Overview of program and co-arrangement

with the M4-HEALTH excellence cluster: a new model for health using digital twins and AI - Gunnar Cedersund Associate Professor at IMT, Linköping University.

9.00–9.30: Keynote Speakers

  • “Strategic initiatives on the university and Region Östergötland levels” – Matts Karlsson (IMI, LiU), Robert Ring and Reidar Källström (Region Östergötland)

9.30–10.00: Morning Fika: Posters and Research & Innovation Arena

10.00–12.00: Morning Parallel Sessions:

  • Novel Instrumentation, Biosensors, and Biomaterials
  • Data Analysis, Modelling and AI
  • eHealth and Clinical Implementation

12.00–13.30: Lunch: Posters and Research & Innovation Arena

13.30–15.00: Afternoon Parallel Sessions

  • Health Informatics and Data Flows
  • From Cells to Patients and End-Usage

15.00–15.30: Afternoon Fika: Posters and Research & Innovation Arena

15.30–16.30: Not confirmed yet. Concluding keynotes and remarks

When and where?

Day and time

25 May 2026, 08:30-17:00

Place

Hugo Theorell, Ljusgården, floor 9, entrance 'Norra Entrén', University Hospital, Linköping.

Find your way to the conference (map)

It will be possible to participate via Zoom.

Contact

If you have any questions you are welcome to contact the committee through: bme.at.liu@imt.liu.se

The BME@LiU2026 programme is taking shape

Register now to participate

As the programme begins to take form, below are the initial confirmed speakers and Research and Innovation Arena presenters. There are still plenty of slots available, and we want to hear from you as well.
The session talks deadline: 20 April.
Posters, Arena, and Attendee Registration deadline: 15 May.
Please submit your talks and register today!

Keynote speakers

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Matts Karlsson.

Strategic initiatives on the university and Region Östergötland levels.

Matts Karlsson

Vice-rector for Research, The Department of Management and Engineering (IEI) at Linköping University.


Read more about him here:
Matts Karlsson



Co-presented with

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Robert Ring.

Robert Ring

(Provisionally confirmed)

Development Director, Region Östergötland.

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Reidar Källström.
Reidar Källström

(Provisionally confirmed)

Medical information manager, Region Östergötland.

Other highlighted speakers

Morning

eHealth and Clinical Implementation

Johan Holmsäter (Lev Skönare AB) and Anna Ejve (Norlandia AB)

An eHealth-based health programme at Norlandia: digital twins for employees and eldercare.Health Informatics and Data Flows.

Afternoon

Health Informatics and Data Flows

Claes Lundström

(CMIV and Sectra): Exploiting clinical data for healthcare and precision health: from AIDA to CIP.

From Cells to Patients and End-Usage

Mattias Ekstedt

(HMV, LiU and Region Östergötland): A cross-disciplinary liver network integrating cell biology, clinical studies, health economy, and eHealth.

Confirmed & invited speakers

Novel Instrumentation, Biosensors, and Biomaterials

  •  Johannes Johansson (IMT) and Sarah Lindström (BKV) ”Verification of inflammatory erythema from noxious heating for study of hyperalgesia” 
  • Rolf Saager (IMT) and Yasuhiko Irie (IFM) “Development of in vitro precision photodynamic therapeutics model against bacterial biofilm chronic infections” 
  • Wajdi Alrawi (Region Östergötland, Heart Center): Automated laser-modified EndoGraft (ALMEG).
  • Pierfrancesco Pagella (IFM, LiU): Engineering cell diversity for preclinical models and regenerative oral medicine.

Data Analysis, Modelling and AI

  • Elin Boger (AstraZeneca) and Nicolas Sundqvist (IMT, LiU): Knowledge-driven drug development using physiologically based pharmacokinetic modelling of antibodies.
  • Johanna Tingvall-Gustafsson (Lund University) and Hendrik de Weerd (IMT, LiU) ”Untangling leukemia using trajectory analysis of single-cell multi-omics data: where do things go wrong”

eHealth and Clinical Implementation

  • Johan Holmsäter (Lev Skönare AB) and Anna Ejve (Norlandia AB): An eHealth-based health programme at Norlandia: digital twins for employees and eldercare.
  • Jimmy Johansson (Variant AB) “Movie realistic digital twins for health, eHealth, and healthcare” 
  • Nicolas Waern (Life Atlas AB) “Digital twins for eHealth – from architecture and housing to longevity and diabetes” 
  • Birgitta Thörn (Holistal AB) “Micro-habits for lifestyle changes – from Itrim to clinical studies in company health” 

Health Informatics and Data Flows

  • Claes Lundström (CMIV and Sectra): Exploiting clinical data for healthcare and precision health: from AIDA to CIP.
  • Anders Eklund (IMT, LiU) Federated learning for radiation therapy.
  • Catalina Martinez University of Murcia and Serge Timsit, Brest University Hospital. Federated learning and data harmonization in the STRATIF-AI project, 
  • Lovisa Tobieson, Region Östergötland High-quality longitudinal and multi-modal data in neurointensive care – basis for digital twin modelling.

From Cells to Patients and End-Usage

  • Mattias Ekstedt (HMV, LiU and Region Östergötland): A cross-disciplinary liver network integrating cell biology, clinical studies, health economy, and eHealth.

Research and Innovation Arena Contributors confirmed, so far:

  • SUND sound medical decisions AB - Developer of digital twin technology, personalized models of individuals. Sponsor of the lunch.

  • Liopep: Making training engaging and accessible

  • Almi: We provide coaching and finance to innovators and start-ups

  • LEAD: One of Sweden's leading business incubators. Here, research and entrepreneurship meet in an environment where knowledge can become a real benefit to patients, healthcare providers and the society.

  • Lungflex AB: The FlexO2 device empowers patients to breathe easier, gain a sense of self-control, and increase their quality of life.

  • Switch to Sweden: Explore career path in Sweden for researchers

  • KIPA AB is a European IP law firm specializing in intellectual property (IP), primarily in medical technology, also chemistry, biotechnology and alternative fuels.

  • Medtech4health: accelerating Swedish medtech.

  • Worldish AB is a medtech company from Linköping that has developed the translation assistant, Helen Assistant, for communication between healthcare staff and patients across diffrerent languages.

  • Medos AB: Expert medical device consultant services for regulatory success.

  • PressCise AB / Wernli AG: Lundatex® is a patented Swedish smart textile technology developed to improve the quality, consistency, and efficiency of compression therapy.

  • Allaiter Textile: develops innovative textile solutions for women's health. Our Mamelle Heat Relief Pads product uses graphene-based heat technology to provide controlled warmth and relieve breast discomfort that many women experience during breastfeeding.

  • Norlandia AB - One of Sweden's biggest eldercare companies, which pioneers new technologies.

  • Lev Skönare AB - Developer of digital twin solutions for company healthcare, prevention, etc.

  • Life Atlas AB - Developer of digital twin solutions for industry and healthcare.

  • Holistal AB - Developer of eHealth app for microhabits and company healthcare.

  • Variant AB - Graphics design company, specialized in movie-realistic and physiologically based digital twins.

  • Forum Östergötland is a support function for clinical and translational research at Region Östergötland and Linköping University. It is also part of the regional node Forum Southeast in the national collaboration Clinical Studies Sweden.

  • The National Academic Infrastructure for Supercomputing in Sweden (NAISS) maintains advanced computing, artificial intelligence, and data services that support research ranging from fundamental research in mathematics or physics to climate modelling, the green transition, life science and economics.

  • LiU Innovation supports students, researchers and staff at Linköping University to develop ideas from early concept to finished product or service. The service is free of charge for students, researchers and staff at LiU.

  • Grants Office: Support with grant applications, mainly EU grants

  • ECIU@LiU: Linköping University is, together with 11 other European universities, part of the alliance ECIU University, which is a virtual European university. ECIU@LiU supports students and staff when they take part in the opportunities (research and education) within ECIU University.

  • SciLifeLab Linköping: A state-of-the-art national infrastructure for life science. SciLifeLab provides researchers in fields such as biomedicine, ecology, and evolution with access to advanced technologies and expertise. Collaboration across disciplines and sectors is a central part of SciLifeLab, involving partners in healthcare, academia, industry and international communities. The aim is to enable life science research that would otherwise not be possible.

The M4-HEALTH consortium meeting 25–26 May 2026

Co-arranged with BME@Liu2026

The BME@LiU 2026 is co-arranged with a two-day consortium event for the M4-HEALTH excellence cluster, coordinated by Linköping University. This cluster deals with creation of an infrastructure for hybrid digital twins of patients, which are used as a binding kit for a new eco-system for health.

Monday 25 May deals with directly overlapping interests, i.e. new engineering methods of data gathering and harmonization, hybrid AI, modelling and LLMs, as well as eHealth applications in biomedicine and healthcare. Tuesday 26 May deals with other non-healthcare applications, including e.g. defense, schools, food industry, etc.

If you want to join both days, i.e. also the M4-HEALTH specific event, sign up here: M4-HEALTH Consortium Meeting

Read more about our previous BME events

Previous BME events

Committes

Programme committee

Gunnar Cedersund, IMT, chair
Rolf Saager, IMT, co chair
Daniel Aili, IFM
Tiny Jaarsmaa, HMV
Daniel Simon, ITN

Contact

bme.at.liu@imt.liu.se

Organisation committee

Peter Hult, IMT
Johannes Johansson, IMT
Luigi Belcastro, IMT
William Lövfors, IMT
Karoline Waltelius, IMT
Rovia Bndyan, IMT
Maria Landqvist, kommunikatör

Organiser

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Department of Biomedical Engineering (IMT)

A national centre for research, PhD studies and graduate studies within biomedical engineering, since 1972.

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