Programme 07.05.2025*

for the 21st International Life Science Meeting | 07.05. – 08.05.2025

*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 21st LIFE SCIENCE MEETING

Wing G1 Room E.21

09:00

Welcome Speech

Udo Brändle

CEO | IMC Krems University of Applied Sciences Krems

09:05

Opening Speech

Harald Hundsberger

Head Institute  Biotechnology / IMC Krems University of Applied Sciences Krems

SESSION: FINDING APPLICATIONS FOR EXTRACELLULAR VESICLES

Wing G1 Room E.21

Chair: Julia Drescher | Stefan Tanzmayr

09:10

Extracellular Vesicles – A New Language in Cell-to-Cell Communication

Christoph Metzner

Head of study program Medical and Pharmaceutical Biotechnology/ IMC Krems University of Applied Sciences Krems
 

09:20

ASEV – Research on Extracellular Vesicles in Austria

Wolfgang Holnthoner

President of the Austrian Society for Extracellular Vesicles
Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Traumatology
The Research Centre in Cooperation with AUVA
Vienna
 
 

09:50

Extracellular vesicles as biomarkers for solid tumors

Kerstin Menck

University Hospital Münster
 

10:10 – 10:40 COFFEE BREAK

SESSION: OMICS

Wing G1 Room E.21

Chair: Dominik Beck | Rishka Raj

10:40

OMICS Technologies and Data Science in Biomedicine

Andreas Lackner

Head of study program OMICS Technologies and Data Science in Biomedicine / IMC Krems University of Applied Sciences Krems

10:50

Single-cell and spatial atlases across human organs

Simon Koplev

Cambridge Stem Cell Institute, Teichmann Lab

11:30

NGS Technologies at the Vienna Biocenter

Andreas Sommer

Vienna Biocenter Core Facilities, Vienna

 

 

 

SESSION: FFG

Wing G1 Room E.21

12:00

European Funding: Opportunities for Life Sciences

Astrid Hoebertz

FFG – Austrian Research Promotion Agency, European and International Programmes, National Contact Point Health Horizon Europe

 

12:20 -13:20 LUNCH BREAK

SESSION: OMICS

Wing G1 Room E.21

Chair: Dominik Beck | Rishka Raj

13:20

Online – Presentation

How to engineer human pluripotent stem cells to understand development and disease

Nuria Montserrat

Ministry of Research and Universities, Generalitat de Catalunia; Institute for Bioengineering of Catalonia

13:50

Proteomics Technologies at the Vienna Biocenter

Karl Mechtler

Institute of Molecular Pathology, Vienna

14:10

Omics Technologies as a Key Technology for Developing Innovative Medical Biomaterials

Stefan Kalkhof

Institute for Bioanalysis, Department of Applied Sciences, Coburg University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Coburg, Germany

SESSION: INDUSTRY I

Wing G1 Room E.21

Chair: Leonie Kernegger | Luis Hofweyrer

14:30

Oncology research at Boehringer Ingelheim RCV

Paola Martinelli

Boehringer Ingelheim Vienna, Associate Scientific Director
 

15:00

Unveiling the Chromatic Secrets of a Therapeutic Protein

Emanuel Kreidl

Novartis
 

15:20 BREAK

SESSION: DocFunds I & CANCER

Wing G1 Room E.21

Chair: Leonie Kernegger | Luis Hofweyrer

15:40

Targeted chemotherapy of testicular cancer in the era of precision medicine

Lucia Kučerová

Translational Research Unit
Faculty of Medicine, Comenius University,
National Cancer Institute
Bratislava
 

16:00

Hautorganoide als Ort der Krebsproliferation

Mario Mikula

Medical University of Vienna
Institute of Medical Genetics
 

16:20

Metabolic Niche in Liver Cancer

Wolfgang Mikulits

Medical University Vienna
 

16:40 BREAK

SESSION: OMICS continued

Wing G1 Room E.21

Chair: Dominik Beck | Rishka Raj

17:00

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Elly Tanaka

Institute of Molecular Biotechnology Austria, IMBA, Vienna
 

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

17:30

Heuriger Müllner

Heuriger Müllner, Stadtgraben 50, A-3500 Krems 

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