Programme 22.04.2026*

for the 22nd International Life Science Meeting | 21.04. – 23.04.2026

*Subject to change: We ask for your understanding that short-term changes may occur during the planning of this event. Therefore, all information is subject to change.

MEETING OPENING 22nd LIFE SCIENCE MEETING

Wing G1 Room E.21

09:00

Welcome Speech

Udo Brändle

CEO | IMC Krems University of Applied Sciences Krems

09:10

Opening Speech

Harald Hundsberger

Head Institute  Biotechnology / IMC Krems University of Applied Sciences Krems

KEYNOTE

Wing G1 Room E.21

Chair: N.N. | N.N.

09:20

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Jan Lötvall

Professor/ Chief Physician

Institute of Medicine

University of Gothenburg

10:00 – 10:20 BREAK

SESSION: DELIVERY

Wing G1 Room E.21

Chair: N.N. | N.N.

10:20

Extracellular vesicles – a scalable nanoplatform for biocompatible drug delivery

Cristian-Tudor Matea

Chemical Biology and Biological Therapeutics
Department of Biosciences and Medical Biology, University of Salzburg
 
 
 

10:40

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Yolanda Salinas Soler

Professor (FH) Institute Applied Chemistry
IMC Krems University of Applied Sciences
 

11:00

Next Generation LNPs – the future of targeted drug delivery

Theresa Dam

Deputy Head of Quality Control
Polymun Scientific Immunbiologische Forschung GmbH
 

11:20 -11:40 COFFEE BREAK

SESSION: CANCER

Wing G1 Room E.21

Chair: N.N.| N.N.

11:40

Personalized vaccines for cancer

Sophie Zettl

CBO 

YGION Biomedical GmbH

12:00

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Rita Seeböck

Scientific Project Staff Institut Biotechnologie 

IMC University of Applied Sciences

12:20

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Martin Kern

Chemgineering International GmbH

12:40 -13:40 LUNCH BREAK

Keynote

Wing G1 Room E.21

Chair: N.N. | N.N.

13:40

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Simon Koplev

Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Teichmann Lab

 

SESSION: EcoPlus & Krems Cooperation Award

Wing G1 Room E.21

14:20

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Harald Leiter

ecoplus Niederosterreichs Wirtschaftsagentur GmbH

 

14:30

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Klaudia Cisarova

Winner Krems Cooperation Award

14:40 -15:00 BREAK

SESSION: IMMUNOLOGY

Wing G1 Room E.21

Chair: N.N. | N.N.

15:20

Cellular & Molecular Mechanisms of Asthma

Jörg Fritz

McGill University

15:40

Engineering Fc-Engagers for Antigen-Specific Immune Tolerance

Eva Mihailovska

Chief Development Officer (CDO), LoopLab Bio 

16:00 -16:20 BREAK

SESSION: NEUROSCIENCE

Wing G1 Room E.21

Chair: N.N. | N.N.

16:20

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Nadine Huber

University of Eastern Finland
 

16:40

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Stefan Winter

Ever Pharma
 

17:00

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Nicole Amberg

Medical University Vienna
 

17:20

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Ralf Braun

Programme Director of the Bachelor’s Degree Programme in Human Medicine (BSc) at 

Danube Private University (DPU)
 

17:20 -17:40 BREAK

SESSION: INTERNATIONAL COLLABORATION PARTNERS

Wing G1 Room E.21

Chair: N.N. | N.N.

17:40

From Cell to Supernatant: A „Leaky“ Approach to Rapid Protein Production

Stuchlík Stanislav

Zdenko Levarski

Comenius University Bratislava

 

Come together with “Students, Graduates, Lecturers, Coaches and R&D Partners” at the Heurigen Müllner

18:30

Heuriger Müllner

Heuriger Müllner, Stadtgraben 50, A-3500 Krems 

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