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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
Targeting the immune system with Extracellular Vesicle Medicines
Jan Lötvall
Professor
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
10:40
Smart, safe, and in motion: Silica-based micromotors as advanced Drug Delivery Systems
Yolanda Salinas Soler
11:00
Next Generation LNPs – the future of targeted drug delivery
Theresa Dam
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
Clinical potential of AXL biomarker testing. Initial findings from the TOPICO doc.funds.connect project
Rita Seeböck
Institute Biotechnology, IMC Krems University of Applied Sciences | Institute of clinical Pathology and Molecular Pathology, Karl Landsteiner University of Health Sciences | University Hospital St.Pölten
12:20 -13:20 LUNCH BREAK
SESSION: CANCER II
Wing G1 Room E.21
Chair: N.N. | N.N.
13:20
Dynamics of immunological tissue architecture linking inflammation with colorectal cancer
Simon Koplev
Department of Gene Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Science for Life Laboratory (SciLifeLab), Stockholm, Sweden
SESSION: ECOPLUS & KREMS COOPERATION AWARD
Wing G1 Room E.21
13:40
Dive into the world of Lower Austria´s Innovation Ecosystem
Harald Leiter
ecoplus Niederosterreichs Wirtschaftsagentur GmbH
13:50
Mapping variant effects on cholesterol metabolism with a base editing CRISPR screen.
Klaudia Cisárová
Winner Krems Cooperation Award
14:00-14:20 BREAK
SESSION: IMMUNOLOGY
Wing G1 Room E.21
Chair: N.N. | N.N.
14:20
Cellular & Molecular Mechanisms of Asthma
Jörg Fritz
McGill University
14:40
Engineering Fc-Engagers for Antigen-Specific Immune Tolerance
Eva Mihailovska
Chief Development Officer (CDO), LoopLab Bio
15:00
Advances in Therapeutic Strategies for Coeliac Disease
Victor Zevallos
Professor of Nutritional Sciences and Microbiome
Karl Landsteiner University
15:20 -15:40 BREAK
SESSION: NEUROSCIENCE
Wing G1 Room E.21
Chair: N.N. | N.N.
15:40
Yeast models for human TDP-43 proteinopathies
Ralf Braun
Research Division for Neurodegenerative Disorders, Center for Biosciences, Department of Medicine, Danube Private University (DPU), Krems an der Donau
16:00
Mechanisms of neurodegeneration in frontotemporal dementia with a focus on synaptic dysfunction
Nadine Huber
16:20
Understanding the neuropathological underpinnings of neurodevelopmental diseases in the human brain
Nicole Amberg
16:40 -17:00 BREAK
SESSION: TRENDS & REGULATIONS IN BIG PHARAMA
Wing G1 Room E.21
Chair: N.N. | N.N.
17:00
Biopharmaceutical Facilities – Digital Solutions in Construction Management
Martin Kern
CGI LSE – Chemgineering International GmbH
Vienna
17:20
From Cell to Supernatant: A „Leaky“ Approach to Rapid Protein Production
Zdenko Levarski
Department of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia
17:40
EU Pharma at a Turning Point: Regulation, Innovation, and Supply Resilience
Günter Waxenecker
Head of the Austrian Medicines and Medical Devices Agency
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