Dear all, The BioCenter Oulu day (BCO Day) is going to take place on 10th April 2025. The theme for this year BCO day is "Gene Therapy". Please find the programme details
BIOCENTER OULU DAY 2025 Mode the code – innovations in gene therapy Time Thursday April 10, 2025 at 8.30-16.00 Place Leena Palotie Auditorium, Main Building of Kontinkangas Campus, Aapistie 5A, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland Chairpersons Ruwandi Abeysekara, Saurabh Singh Dhakar, Johanna Helenius
PROGRAMME 8.30-8.40 Opening remarks Chairperson of the Organizing Committee, Biocenter Oulu 8.40-8.50 Welcome Prof. Johannes Kettunen, Director of Biocenter Oulu 8.50-9.30 “Gene therapy - from basic research to clinical applications”. KEYNOTE, Seppo Ylä-Herttuala, UEF, Finland 9.30-10.15 Coffee at the exhibition area
Session 1: Gene editing 10.15-10.20 Sponsor spot 10.20-10.50 "Cancer-safe cell and gene therapy platform". Kirmo Wartiovaara, University of Helsinki, Finland 10.50-11.20 “Balancing efficacy and safety in lentiviral vector-mediated hematopoietic stem cell gene therapy”. Eugenio Montini, SR-Tiget, Italy 11.20-11.25 Sponsor spot 11.25-12.55 Lunch break and exhibition
Session 2: Delivery 12.55-13.00 Sponsor spot 13.00-13.30 “Application of Nanofibrillated cellulose for future chronic wound treatment”. Riina Harjumäki, University of Helsinki, Finland 13.30-14.00 “Folding of DNA and mRNA Origami for Controlled Translation and Viral Vector Packaging”. Mauri Kostiainen, Aalto University, Finland 14.00-14.40 Coffee at the exhibition area
Session 3: From bench to bedside 14.40-14.45 Sponsor spot 14.45-15.15 “Cancer gene therapy with oncolytic viruses: a learning cycle between the laboratory and patients”. Akseli Hemminki, University of Helsinki, Finland 15.15-15.45 “Matritools: a collection of open access methods to study the matrisome in the omics era”. Valerio Izzi, University of Oulu, Finland 15.45-16.00 General discussion and concluding remarks
On behalf of organizing committee Ruwandi Abeysekara, Saurabh Singh Dhakar, Johanna Helenius Chairpersons, BCO 2025