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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
09:20
ASEV – Research on Extracellular Vesicles in Austria
Wolfgang Holnthoner
09:50
Extracellular vesicles as biomarkers for solid tumors
Kerstin Menck
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
15:00
Unveiling the Chromatic Secrets of a Therapeutic Protein
Emanuel Kreidl
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
16:00
Hautorganoide als Ort der Krebsproliferation
Mario Mikula
16:20
Metabolic Niche in Liver Cancer
Wolfgang Mikulits
16:40 BREAK
SESSION: OMICS continued
Wing G1 Room E.21
Chair: Dominik Beck | Rishka Raj
17:00
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Elly Tanaka
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