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 e-mail: pirkko.huhtala@oulu.fimailto:pirkko.huhtala@oulu.fi 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 www.oulu.fi/biocenterhttp://www.oulu.fi/biocenter