Dear all,

remember Biocenter Day on Thursday!

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 Johannes Kettunen, Director of Biocenter Oulu
8.50-9.30	“Gene therapy - from basic research to clinical applications”. KEYNOTE, Seppo Ylä-Herttuala, University of Eastern Finland,
9.30-10.20	Coffee at the exhibition area
Session 1: Gene editing
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
11.20-13.00	Lunch break and exhibition
Session 2: Delivery
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
14.00-14.45	Coffee at the exhibition area
Session 3: From bench to bedside
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

Pirkko Huhtala, PhD

Coordinator

Biocenter Oulu, University of Oulu

tel: +358-294 486101, + 358-40 1897467

Street address: Room 476B, Aapistie 5A, FIN-90220 Oulu

Mailing address: PO Box 5000, FIN-90014 University of Oulu, Finland