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