FIMM Launch Event Tuesday, 16 March 2010

Tuesday, 16 March 2010

Lecture Hall 1, Biomedicum Helsinki 1, Ground Floor (Haartmaninkatu 8, Helsinki)

9.00—12.00 Scientific presentations by the Members of the Scientific Advisory Board of FIMM

Chair, Professor Olli Kallioniemi

Marja Makarow Lecture: Lipid rafts as a membrane-organizing principle

Professor Kai Simons, Max-Planck-Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Germany

Signaling via receptors for PDGF and TGF-beta - possible targets in tumor therapy

Professor Carl-Henrik Heldin, Uppsala University, Sweden

Systems Reconstruction of Estrogen Receptor Regulation

Professor Edison Liu, Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore

Professor Nadia Rosenthal, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Monterotondo, Italy

12.00—13.30 Buffet Lunch

13.30—16.00 Opening ceremony

Chair Professor Marja Makarow

FIMM in the European Research Area

Chair of the Board of FIMM, Professor Marja Makarow

EMBL and EMBL Partnerships

Director General, Professor Iain Mattaj, European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)

Overview of FIMM

Director, Professor Olli Kallioniemi, FIMM

Personalized medicine needs new approaches: an opportunity for FIMM

FiDiPro Professor Jonathan K.C. Knowles, FIMM

Minister of Education Henna Virkkunen, Ministry of Education

Minister of Health and Social Services Paula Risikko, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health

Director General Petri Peltonen, Ministry of Employment and the Economy

Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway — focus on disease mechanisms drawing on the strengths of the Nordic EMBL Partnership

Director, Professor Kjetil Taskén, Centre for Molecular Medicine Norway (NCMM), Oslo

MIMS: The Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden — Understanding the molecular mechanisms of microbial infection for development of new sustainable antimicrobial strategies

Director, Professor Bernt Eric Uhlin, Laboratory for Molecular Infection Medicine Sweden (MIMS), Umeå

Rector, Professor Thomas Wilhelmsson, University of Helsinki

Research Director, Professor Lasse Viinikka, Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (HUS)

Director General, Professor Pekka Puska, National Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)

Executive Vice President, Strategic Research, Professor Jorma Lammasniemi, VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

16.00—17.30 Cocktail