Program

Monday 29.8.2016

11.45-12.15 Registration

Session I

Chair: Professor Mika Scheinin

12.15-12.30 Opening of the 10th Annual FinPharmaNet Meeting
Professor Mika Scheinin, Director of FinPharmaNet, University of Turku

12.30-13.00 A mathematician in medicine: How did I get here and where are we going?
Research Director in Bioinformatics Laura Elo, Turku Centre for Biotechnology, University of Turku

13.00-13.30 Experiences over the past years in drug development and approval
Chief Medical Officer Janne Komi, Forendo Pharma Ltd., Turku

13.30–14.10 Careers in the pharmaceutical industry - what is Orion looking for?
HR Manager Susanna Sevón-Laakso, Talent Management and Renewal, Orion Corporation, Espoo

14.10-14.30 A PhD thesis project abroad - thoughts about Denmark
Doctoral Candidate Anne Vuorenpää, DRDP/University of Turku, Orion Pharma, Turku

14.30-15.00 From research to customer service and private entrepreneurship
Adjunct Professor Mikko Unkila, D.Pharm, Pälkäne Pharmacy

15.00-15.15 Coffee/tea

Session II

15.15-18.00 Three minute thesis presentations

Chairpersons: Gabriela Martinez Chacón and Siiri Salomaa, DRDP / University of Turku

(FinPharmaNet board meeting)

18.30- Buffet dinner, Kupittaan Paviljonki

20.00- Student council program

Tuesday 30.8.2016

Session III

Chair: Adjunct Professor Eriika Savontaus

9.00-9.45 Translation of discoveries to innovations: from bench to bedside and back Academician Sirpa Jalkanen, University of Turku

9.45-10.30 Case Ospemifene: lessons to learn
CEO Risto Lammintausta, Forendo Pharma Ltd

10.30-11.15 Career as a regulatory toxicologist - is it scientific or administrative? Scientific Officer Kirsi Myöhänen, European Chemicals Agency, Helsinki

11.15-11.45 Genotoxic evaluation in populations exposed to mixtures of pesticides in three communities of Bolivia
PhD student Jessika Barron Cuenca, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet

Biological effects of transcriptional mutagenesis
PhD student Monika Ezerskyte, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet

11.45-13.15 Lunch Break

Frontiers of Science seminar:
Prof. Eric Nestler, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai, New York, USA:
"Transcriptional and epigenetics mechanisms of depression"
University of Turku, Presidentti auditorium (BioCity, Tykistökatu 6)
12:00-13:00

Session IV

Chair: Professor Ullamari Pesonen

13.15-14.00 Health risk assessment
Assistant Professor Ilona Silins, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet

14.00-14.30 Coffee/tea

Session V

14.30-15.30 Can Ni and NiO nanoparticles induce EMT in epithelial lung cells?
PhD student Emma Åkerlund, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet

Toluene diisocyanate: Induction of the autotaxin-lysophosphatidic acid axis
Post doc Aram Ghalali, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet

Inflammatory effects of aldehyde In vitro
PhD student Aishwarya Mishra Dwivedi,Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet

Hallmarks of cancer taxonomy and literature-based discoveries
Post doc Imran Ali, Institute of Environmental Medicine, Karolinska Institutet

Neurotoxicity: from bench to public health
Post doc Stefan Spulber, Department of Neuroscience, Karolinska Institutet

Toxicokinetics of Chemicals in fish embryo
Post doc Carolina Vogs, Institutet för miljömedicin (IMM), Karolinska Institutet

15.30 Best three minute thesis presentation prizes

16.00 Closing of meeting
Professor Mika Scheinin, Director of FinPharmaNet, University of Turku