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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20210519T130000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Helsinki:20210519T140000
DTSTAMP:20231013T061539Z
URL:https://biocityturku.fi/events/postdoc-and-phd-students-seminar-cerull
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SUMMARY:Postdoc and PhD students seminar: Cerullo
DESCRIPTION:May 19th at 13:00\nVirtual event\n\nWe will be hosting Prof. Vi
 ncenzo Cerullo\, Group leader of ImmunoViroTherapy Lab\, University of Hel
 sinki\, for the talk. The duration of the talk is 30 mins followed by 15 m
 ins of discussion and interaction with the speaker.\nTitle of the talk: 
 “Dressing up viruses to fool cancer"\n\nFlyer pdf\n\nYou can register he
 re: http://bit.ly/cerullo. This link is active until 18th May 23:59.\n\nBr
 ief Bio about the speaker: Prof. Vincenzo Cerullo\, Vince is professor of 
 Biological Drug Development\, Faculty of Pharmacy\, Head of Drug Research 
 Program\, HiLIFE fellow\, Translational Immunology Programme\, University 
 of Helsinki. Vince got his PhD at Centre for genetic Engineering (CENIGE) 
 at University of Naples\, Federico II in 2004\, then he moved to Houston T
 exas (USA) for a postdoc at Baylor College of Medicine. In 2009 he moved t
 o University of Helsinki where he worked as senior researcher until 2012 w
 hen he was awarded the tenure-track professorship and started the ImmunoVi
 roTherapy Lab.  In these years IVTLab has raised more than 7 million Euro
 s for research\, including the prestigious ERC Consolidator Grant\, ERC-Po
 C\, HiLIFE fellow and Jane and Aatos Erkko Foundation grant. The group has
  produced tens of scientific papers and patents and has co-founded a multi
 million spin-off company together with the University of Helsinki (VALO th
 erapeutics). Vince has been awarded the Outstading Young Investigator awar
 d in 2014 by the European Society of Gene and cell Therapy and the Excelle
 nce in Research award by the American Society of Gene and Cell Therapy in 
 2015\; he has been recently ranked number one globally\, third in Europe a
 nd number one in the nordic in his own experitiese (oncolytic virotherapy)
  by expertscape.\n\nOne of Vince’s passion is science dissemination\, th
 is is why has been involved from the beginning in organizing the Science t
 rack in Slush\, he has pitched himself on the Slush stage in 2015\, 2016 a
 nd on the Slush Y Science stage in 2017 (www.slush.org). Among other thing
 s\, he has also presented a TEDx talk on the importance of creativity in s
 cience (https://youtu.be/1btbElPnREI)\n\nMore details about research can b
 e found here: https://www2.helsinki.fi/en/researchgroups/immunovirotherapy
 -lab/research
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