DRUG DEVELOPMENT AND DIAGNOSTICS MINI-SYMPOSIUM TRANSLATING MOLECULES TO TREATMENTS II 9.00-9.10 Opening words by Professor Lea Sistonen 9.10-10.00 Thomas Kirkegaard Jensen Orphazyme - From Biology [...]

Professor James M Musser, Center for Molecular and Translational Human Infectious Diseases Research, Department of Pathology and Genomic Medicine, Houston Methodist Research Institute and Houston [...]

DRUG DEVELOPMENT AND DIAGNOSTICS MINI-SYMPOSIUM TRANSLATING MOLECULES TO TREATMENTS I 13.00-13.10 Opening words by Associate Professor Diana Toivola 13.10-14.00 M. Bishr Omary Molecular Pathogenesis of [...]

Dr. Danijela Vignjevic, Institute Curie, Paris, France Host: Johanna Ivaska (johanna.ivaska@utu.fi) Dr Vignjevic leads the Cell Migration and Invasion group in the INSERM/Institut Curie. She [...]

Tapani Hovi, National Institute for Health and Welfare Polio – history and today Host: Laura Kakkola

Special guest seminar Johan Hartman, Karolinska Institute, Sweden Precision pathology - from molecule to drug development Dr Hartman is a principal investigator at Karolinska Institutet, [...]

Urpo Lamminmäki, University of Turku Synthetic Antibodies – Affinity Tools for Unmet Needs Host: Jukka Alinikula

Arfa Mehmood will present the article Sahraeian et al. Gaining comprehensive biological insight into the transcriptome by performing a broad-spectrum RNA-seq analysis. Nat Commun. 2017 [...]

Mikko Metsä-Ketelä, University of Turku Development of C-nucleoside antibiotics for inhibition of bacterial RNA polymerases. Host: Kirsi Gröndahl-Yli-Hannuksela.

Program: 14.45 Sparkling wine 15.15 Lauri Aaltonen, University of Helsinki – “Genome sequencing in intestinal cancer” 16.15 Johanna Hynninen, Turku University Hospital – “Ovarian Cancer [...]

Dr. Sorin Tunaru, Max-Planck-Institute for Heart and Lung Research, Bad Nauheim, Germany GPCR-mediated biological effects of hydroxylated arachidonic acid (HETE) metabolites   Coffee and cookies [...]

Prof. Masaaki Komatsu, School of Medicine Niigata University, Japan Host: Eeva-Liisa Eskelinen (eeva-liisa.eskelinen@utu.fi)

Ilona Rissanen, University of Helsinki Molecular architecture of hantaviruses: keys to infection and virus neutralization Host: Sisko Tauriainen.

Henri Xhaard, Division of Pharmaceutical Chemistry and Technology, Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Helsinki 10-year retrospective of the Computational Drug Discovery group at the Faculty [...]

Prof. Janine Erler, University of Copenhagen, Denmark Host: Johanna Ivaska (johanna.ivaska@utu.fi)

Annukka Pietikäinen, University of Turku Pathogenesis and diagnostics of Lyme borreliosis Host: Jukka Hytönen.

Coffee/tea and snack available before the talks The two speakers: Guido Serini (University of Torino Medical School) Title of talk: "Mechanisms of β1 integrin activation [...]

Tomas Strandin, University of Helsinki The role of endothelial cells in hantavirus pathogenesis. Host: Pekka Kolehmainen

Prof. Erav Elinav, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel Host: Eveliina Munukka (laevmu@utu.fi)

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