First National EVE Consortium Seminar
10th February 2021 at 12.00 – 18.00 EET, Online event
The seminar is open to all interested in extracellular vesicle research and it offers excellent window to important topics in EV research: methodological challenges, the state of the art in the development of EV therapies and the use of EVs as tools for better diagnostics.
Internationally recognised EV researchers and leading teams of EV research in Finland will present their vision on these topics. Same time this seminar offers a unique possibility to hear how Finland is moving in this field of nanoscale biotechnology and who are the parties in this National Consortium funded by Business Finland and its company parties.
Due to the Covid-19 pandemic the seminar will be held in TEAMS and the participant number is limited to 200.
Do not miss this opportunity and register through this link EVE SEMINAR 2021.
Tentative schedule
12:00 EVE consortium, the
combination of academy and industry
Saara Laitinen, Finnish Red Cross Blood
Service
12:25 Session
1: Extracellular vesicles as therapeutics
Chair: Saara Laitinen, Finnish Red Cross
Blood Service
12:30 Extracellular vesicles:
The translation from bench to bedside
Prof. Bernd Giebel, Institute for
Transfusion Medicine, University Hospital Essen
13:15 Extracellular vesicles
in drug delivery
Prof. Marjo Yliperttula, Faculty of
Pharmacy, University of Helsinki
13:30 Platelet-derived
extracellular vesicles
Adj. Prof. Pia Siljander, Faculty of
Biological and Environmental Sciences, University of Helsinki
13:45 Q&A, closing the
session
14:00 Industry Partner
Presentations + Break
14:25 Session
2: Extracellular vesicles as biomarkers
Chair: Prof. Tarja Malm, A. I. Virtanen
Institute for Molecular Sciences,
University of Eastern Finland
14:30 Extracellular vesicle
biomarkers in the brain
Assoc. Prof. Kenneth Witwer, Department of
Molecular and Comparative Pathobiology; Department of Neurology, Johns Hopkins
University School of Medicine Johns Hopkins University
15:15 Extracellular vesicles
as the future of biobanking
Prof. Arto Mannermaa, School of Medicine,
University of Eastern Finland; Biobank of Eastern Finland
15:30 The use of pluripotent
stem cells in extracellular vesicle research
Riikka Martikainen, A. I.
Virtanen Institute for Molecular Sciences,
University of Eastern Finland
15:45 Q&A, closing the
session
16:00 Industry Partner
Presentations + Break
16:25 Session
3: Technological advancements in extracellular vesicle research
Chair: Tapani Viitala, Faculty of
Pharmacy, University of Helsinki
16:30 Standardization of
concentration measurements of extracellular vesicles for medical diagnoses
PI Rienk Nieuwland & Asst. Prof. Edwin
van der Pol, Laboratory Experimental Clinical Chemistry; Vesicle Observation
Center, Amsterdam UMC, University of Amsterdam
17:15 Fluorescence
lifetime-imaging microscopy and extracellular vesicle research
Adj. Prof. Elina Vuorimaa-Laukkanen,
Faculty of Engineering and Natural Sciences,
Tampere University
17:30 Microfluidics
applications in extracellular vesicle research
Leena Hakalahti, VTT
17:45 Q&A, closing the
session
18:00 Conclusions and closing
words