KI South Distinguished Lecture Series

Lecture by Molly Stevens, Professor at Imperial College, London and Research Director, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, London, UK as well as Professor at KI’s Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics: New bio engineering approaches for ultrasensitive biosensing and cell-based therapeutics. 

Introduction by KI South Researcher Samir EL Andaloussi, Department of Laboratory Medicine: Engineering of exosomes for macromolecular drug delivery. 

Lecture by Fabrizio d’Adda di Fagagna, PhD, Principal Investigator at IFOM Foundation, Milan, Italy. Group leader at IGM (National Research Council), Pavia, Italy: DNA damage and non-coding RNAs—from basics to therapeutics in aging diseases. 

Introduction by KI South Researcher Marianne Farnebo, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition: scaRNAs—new regulators of DNA repair.

Lecture by Guido Kroemer, MD, PhD, on the topic of Autophagy as an ageing decelerator. Kroemer is, among other things, Professor at the faculty of medicine of the University of Paris Descartes, Director of the research team Metabolism, Cancer and Immunity at INSERM, and Director of the Metabolomics and Cell Biology platforms of the Gustave Roussy Comprehensive Cancer Centre.

Introduction by KI South researcher Federico Pietrocola, Department of Biosciences and Nutrition: Cellular responses to stress in health and disease.

Lecture by Nigel Mackman, PhD, John Parker Distinguished Professor of Hematology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Medical School, USA: Mechanisms of cancer-associated thrombosis: focus on tissue factor-positive extracellular vesicles.

Introduction by KI researcher Charlotte Thålin, Department of Clinical Sciences, Danderyd Hospital: Neutrophil extracellular traps in cancer-associated thrombosis.

Lecture by Professor Gavin Perkins, Deputy Dean of Warwick Medical School and Director of Warwick Clinical Trials Unit, UK, on the topic of Trials and tribulations of a critical care physician. He is also a National Institute for Health Research Senior Investigator and Fellow of the Academy of Medical Sciences.  

Introduction by KI SÖS researcher Jacob Hollenberg, Centre for Resuscitation Science: The background and burden of cardiac arrest.

Lecture by Dr Aurélie Goyenvalle, Director Biotherapy for Neuromuscular Diseases, University of Versailles, INSERM: Tricyclo-DNA: promising antisense oligonucleo-tides for the treatment of neuromuscular diseases.

Introduction by KI South researcher Joel Nordin, Department of Laboratory Medicine: A Phase I/II study of the Exon 44 skipping drug, in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy and novel delivery systems to muscle for gene editing.

Lecture by Dr Martha Somerman on the topic Oral-Systemic Integration: Where to begin? She is, among other things, the former Dean of the University of Washington School of Dentistry, USA, and Director of the National Institutes of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) for a period of 9 years (2011-2019). Over the past decade, she has been the driving force for transiting not only the NIDCR, but also the global dental community, from its basic research cradle to the translational research scope that it holds today.

Introduction by KI South researcher Georgios Belibasakis, Department of Dental Medicine: Dentistry and beyond.

Lecture by Antonio Bertoletti, MD, Professor at the Emerging Viral Disease Program at Duke-NUS Medical School, Singapore, and an expert in the field of viral hepatitis, with a specific interest in the immunopathogenesis of HBV infection: Act early and at the right location—kinetic and localization of SARS-CoV-2 specific T cells after infection and vaccination.

Introduction by KI South researcher Marcus Buggert, Department of Medicine, Huddinge, Center for Infections Medicine (CIM): Cellular immunity in viral infections.

Lecture by Katsuhiko Hayashi, full professor at the Department of Genome Biology, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Japan: Reconstitution of reproductive organs for research and reproduction.

Introduction by KI South researcher Pauliina Damdimopoulou, Department of Clinical Science, Intervention and Technology: Single-cell look at human ovaries.

Lecture by Professor Angela Nieto, full Professor and Head of Developmental Neurobiology at Instituto de Neurociencias (CSIC-UMH) in Alicante, Spain: Cell plasticity trajectories in development, fibrosis and cancer progression.

Introduction by KI South researcher Jonas Fuxe, Department of Laboratory medicine: Epithelial-Mesenchymal Plasticity in cancer and inflammation.

Lecture by Dr. Rebecca Gottesman, Senior Investigator and Stroke Branch Chief at the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH): Modifying risk for dementia—using epidemiology and neuroimaging to identify potential targets for prevention and treatment.

Introduction by KI South researcher Anna Marseglia, Department of Neurobiology, Care Sciences and Society: How can we advance precision medicine for cognitive disorders: Challenges in Prevention and Treatment.

Lecture by Piero Carninci, Head of the Genomics Research Centre as well as Team Leader for Laboratory for Transcriptome Technology at the RIKEN Centre for Integrative Medical Sciences in Yokohama, Japan: Genome Regulation by non-coding RNA.

Introduction by KI South researcher Carsten Daub, Department of Medicine Huddinge, BioNut division.

Lecture by Professor Linheng Li, investigator at Stowers Institute for Medical Research, Kansas City and Professor, Adjunction with Kansas University of Cancer Center, Kansas City, USA: Microenvironmental Regulation of Normal and Cancerous Stem Cells.

Introduction by KI researcher Hong Qian, Department of Medicine, Huddinge: Therapeutic opportunities in leukemia niche.