The End Of Medicine As We Know It

The End of Medicine as We Know It

A five-day workshop on AI, medicine, longevity, and transhumanismOrganised by Quantum Civilisation, BioCoderDojo, and Universitatea de Vest din Timișoara (UVT)

What survives when the algorithm out-diagnoses the physician, and aging itself becomes an engineering problem? Across the week, students and faculty meet in Timișoara to figure it out.

Why This, Why Now: A Field About to Be Remade

Diagnostics: AI systems already read X-rays better than radiologists, and algorithms predict patient deterioration before nurses spot the signs.
Drug Discovery: Drug discovery that used to take decades now takes months. The first design of BioNTech's COVID vaccine took a few hours over a weekend.
Automation: 47% of all jobs are at risk of automation, predicted Frey and Osborne in 2013. A decade later, the prediction is no longer abstract.

If you are 15 or older and paying attention to where the world is heading, these changes will define your professional life. This workshop is your chance to understand them before they arrive. Across the week, you will hear from world-class voices, work in teams, debate around the round table, and pitch your own futuristic solution to the question that grips you most. On the final night, the best project wins.

Who Is This For

Anyone aged 15 and up with a serious curiosity about where technology is taking us. You might be considering a path in medicine, biology, computer science, or philosophy, or simply paying attention to where the world is heading.

You do not need to be a coder or a biologist. You need to be willing to think hard and speak up. We are looking for approximately 30 participants. This is deliberately small: every person in the room will be an active contributor, not a passive audience member. The workshop is held in English throughout (roughly B2 level expected—enough to follow discussions and read complex texts comfortably; polish and accent matter less than willingness to engage).

The Programme: Five Days, Five Rhythms

Each day features a keynote to set the stage, group work to dig in, and a round table to argue it out. Throughout the week, teams build their own futuristic solution to a question they pick. The week closes with final pitches and an award.

Day 1 — Saturday, 27 June: Inspiration Day (Online interventions + ice-breakers)What are people actually building out there? We open the workshop with a rolling sequence of short online talks from founders, researchers, and builders shaping the future of medicine, AI, and longevity, each followed by an open Q&A. Between talks, facilitated games and exercises help participants get to know each other. By the end of the day, teams are formed and each team picks the question their project will tackle.
Day 2 — Sunday, 28 June: Longevity Science (Evening keynote online from California)Can we cure aging? A day built around engineered longevity. Morning preparation, afternoon debate, and an evening keynote delivered online from California at 18:30 EEST (08:30 PDT).
Day 3 — Monday, 29 June: Philosophy of Transhumanism (Keynote & team chats)Where does healing end and enhancement begin? Genetic editing, cognitive enhancement, life extension. When medicine can reshape what it means to be human, who decides the limits? The philosophy of transhumanism meets real-world ethical dilemmas. Opens with a keynote, followed by short team chats in the afternoon.
Day 4 — Tuesday, 30 June: Surgical Innovation (Keynote & team chats)What happens in the operating room when AI shows up? Surgeons already use AI to see things the human eye cannot: advanced cameras, glowing dyes that guide the scalpel, and surgical robots. What skills does a surgeon still need, and what changes in how we train doctors? Opens with a keynote, followed by short team chats in the afternoon.
Day 5 — Wednesday, 1 July: Wrap-up & Pitch Night (Award evening)The final push, the pitch night, and the award. Teams put the finishing touches on their projects in working groups. In the evening, each team pitches their solution to the faculty. A jury deliberates, and the best project wins the award.

The Faculty: Voices from the Frontier

Stefan Lorenz Sorgner — Philosophy of Transhumanism (Keynote & team chats): Professor of Philosophy at John Cabot University, Rome. Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Posthuman Studies and Advisory Board Member of the International Society of Medical AI. Author of On Transhumanism, Euro-Transhumanism, and We Have Always Been Cyborgs. One of the world's leading thinkers on what happens to human identity when technology can reshape the body and the mind.
Michele Diana — Surgical Innovation (Keynote & team chats): Surgeon and researcher at IRCAD, Strasbourg (Scientific Director of IRCAD, the Research Institute against Digestive Cancer). His work on image-guided surgery, surgical robotics, and hyperspectral imaging puts him at the exact frontier where the operating room meets AI. Over 250 peer-reviewed papers; EMBA from INSEAD.
Oana Gavriliuc — Cancer Immunology (In person): Immunologist and Assistant Professor at UMFVBT / OncoGen. Her work harnesses the complexity of the immune system to develop the next generation of cancer immunotherapies and diagnostic tools, with a commitment to translating research to patients and making science approachable outside the lab.
Emilia Szüszmann — University Pathways (In person): Educational Counsellor at the Hakes Project. Since 2007, she has helped high school students earn places at leading STEAM universities including Oxford, Cambridge, Delft, Eindhoven, Amsterdam University College, Bocconi, TU Munich, and Constructor University. Her session maps where and in what combinations you can study AI and the life sciences, and what it takes to apply and be accepted.
Ramona Băluțescu — Medical Ethics & Science Writing (In person): Journalist, researcher, and writer at West University of Timișoara (UVT). Holds a doctorate in medieval philosophy and a postdoctoral fellowship in medical ethics from UVT, helping professionals guide families through organ donation decisions. With 34 years in the press specialising in medicine, culture, and religious affairs, she has published over 100 volumes. Her series Reportage in White was nominated by UMFVBT for the Romanian Academy Awards in Medicine. Member of the Romanian Writers' Union and the Romanian Academy's committee on the history and philosophy of science.
Aubrey de Grey — Longevity Science (Online keynote from California): Biomedical gerontologist at the LEV Foundation. Scientific founder of the SENS Research Foundation and the LEV Foundation, and architect of the Strategies for Engineered Negligible Senescence framework, which targets the seven types of molecular damage that cause aging.
Alexandru-Ioan Voda — Computational Biology & Longevity (Online): CEO of The Cat Health Company; DPhil from the Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology at the University of Oxford, where he developed computational methods for predicting disease targets. Pioneering AI-driven drug repurposing for age-related diseases and speaker at the Longevity Summit Dublin 2024.
Alex Plesa — Cell Rejuvenation & Gene Therapy (Online): Scientist at the Wyss Institute, Harvard University. Earned his PhD in George Church's lab at Harvard, building a discovery platform that reads thousands of cellular signals to test ways to make old cells young again, discovering new gene therapies that rejuvenate human cells and mouse tissues. Currently incubating a biotech startup to translate this work into human therapies.
Plus more voices to come: Additional founders, researchers, and builders joining for short online talks on Inspiration Day.

The Organising Team

Andrei Nutas (Entangled Civilisation · AI Ethics): Holds a PhD in the ethics of AI from West University of Timișoara. Focuses on AI alignment with human values and auditing corporate AI ethics claims. Authoring a book on European technological sovereignty, organizer of the Beyond Humanism Conference, AI safety and testing engineer, and co-founder of the Quantum Civilisation NGO.
Radu Ticiu (BioCoderDojo · STEAM Education): Creator of educational spaces where youth learn programming, game development, AI, aerospace, biotech, and robotics. Co-founder of Banat IT, Timișoara Startup Hub, CoderDojo Timișoara, and EducaTM, and initiator of Timișoara Startup Weekend, HackTM, the SynBio Hackathon, and MegaDojo.

What Participants Walk Away With

A real understanding of medical AI: How it actually works, where it fails, and what it means for healthcare careers.
Exposure to frontier science: Longevity research, regenerative medicine, surgical robotics, and computational drug discovery, straight from the people doing it.
Critical thinking tools: Frameworks for ethical reasoning about human enhancement, automation, and the boundaries of medicine.
A portfolio piece: A team project built over five days with faculty mentorship, pitched to an audience, and judged by a jury.
A network: Connections with international researchers, fellow students, and an ongoing community.
A certificate of participation: Issued by Quantum Civilisation and signed by the workshop faculty.

How to Apply

Submit a short text (maximum 300 words, no formal letter required) by 25 June 2026 covering three things:

Who you are and what you are studying or interested in.
Why you want to join this workshop and what you hope to take from it.
One question about AI, medicine, or the future that keeps you up at night.

For any questions, write to andrei@entangledciv.com.