5th Helsinki Biomedical Graduate School

Student Council Symposium:

Frontiers in Personalized Medicine

TUESDAY, MAY 4th 2010
10:00- 12:15

Registration at Biomedicum Lobby

SESSION I: INTRODUCTION AND OVERVIEW ON

PERSONALIZED MEDICINE
CHAIR: Sanna Vuoristo
Opening words
12:15-13:00

DANIEL NEBERT
University of Cincinnati, USA
Personalized medicine, individualized drug therapy: can these goals be
realistically achieved

SESSION II: SYSTEMS BIOLOGY APPROACH

CHAIR: Anna-Maria Lahesmaa-Korpinen
13:00-13:30

AARNO PALOTIE
Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute, UK
From GWA studies to large sequencing studies, what are we aiming for?

13:30-14:15

KRI STEFNSSON
deCODE Genetics, Iceland
Genetics of Complex Traits

14:15-15:00

TIM WILTSHIRE
UNC institute of pharmacogenomics and individualized therapy, USA
Discovering the genes important in drug response

15:00-15:15

Sponsors slot: SIGMA

SESSION III: POSTER SESSION

15:15-16:30

with refreshments (Atrium C)

SESSION IV: PHARMACOGENETICS

CHAIR: Elina Hakonen
16:30-17:15

MAGNUS INGELMAN-SUNDERG
Karolinska Institute, Sweden
Pharmacogenetics and epigenetics of drug metabolism and action

17:15-18:00

MIKKO NIEMI
University of Helsinki, Finland
Pharmacogenomics of statin therapy

18:00-19:00

Wine and snacks (Atrium C)

WEDNESDAY, MAY 5th 2010

SESSION V: GENE THERAPY
CHAIR: Joao Dias
9:00-9:45

CLIONA ROONEY
Center for Cell and Gene Therapy, Baylor College of Medicine, USA
Meeting the Challenges of T Cell Therapy for Malignancy

9:45-10:30

AKSELI HEMMINKI
University of Helsinki, Finland
Oncolytic viruses for treatment of cancer in humans

10:30-11:15

JOHN BELL
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Canada
Oncolytic Vaccinia Virus for the Treatment of Cancer

11:15-13:00

Lunch break (Atrium B)

SESSION VI: CELL THERAPY

CHAIR: Sanna Vuoristo
13:00-13:45

ANTONIO UCCELLI
University of Genova and San Martino Hospital, Italy
Therapeutic plasticity of mesenchymal stem cells

13:45-14:30

PENNEY GILBERT
Stanford University School of Medicine, USA
The Stem Cell Niche as a Therapeutic Target

14:30-15:15

MIODRAG STOJKOVIC
Prince Felipe Research Centre, Spain
Stem cells and spinal cord injury

15:15-15:45

Coffee break (Atrium C)

SESSION VII: PERSONALIZED THERAPIES - FROM LAB

TO CLINIC
CHAIR: Anastasiya Chernenko
15:45-16:30

MATTHEW WOOD
Somerville College, University of Oxford, UK
TBA

16:30-17:15

ANNE GALY
Molecular Immunology and Innovative Biotherapies, Genethon, France
Development of a gene therapy for Wiskott Aldrich Syndrome

17:15-18:00

JRGEN BROCKMLLER
University of Gttingen, Germany
Trustable and medically usefull clinical research in pharmacogenetics and
individualized medicine: Methodical remarks and case stories

18:00 -19:00

Happy hour

19:00-24:00

Dinner and Closing party (Atrium B)