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First Finnish-Indian Joint Symposium
Future Opportunities in Health, Drug Development and Diagnostics
Turku, Finland
October 27.-28., 2015,
followed by Biomaterial Days on October 29, 2015
Organisers: University of Turku and Åbo Akademi University
Place: Arken, Åbo Akademi University, Tehtaankatu 2/ Fabriksgatan 2, Turku
Finnish Universities and the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) are encouraging direct contacts and co-operation between Finnish and Indian faculty and staff, departments and research
institutions. In order to enhance joint research activities including seminars and conferences the
newly established Finnish-Indian Consortium is arranging a kick-off Symposium to launch its
activies. The First Finnish-Indian Joint Symposium aims at creating further co-operation in the
fields of Health, Drug Development and Diagnostics.
Academics and researchers from India and Finland are welcome to join us in creating new opportunities for joint research and education activities. The seminar is based of presentations of
participating researchers as well as on active discussions on future opportunities. The research
groups are also welcome to present their posters during the Symposium.
Programme
9.00 – 10.00 Visit to the Turku PET Centre (http://www.turkupetcentre.fi/index.php. Optional,
visit, please register in advance)
11.00 – 12.00 Lunch
27.10. Tuesday
12.00 Opening of the Symposium
Indian ambassador (tbc)
Welcoming words by the host, Ministry of Education,
Finnish and Indian Consortium Coordinators
Session 1: Diagnostic tools
“Options and enabling technologies for world-wide diagnostics” Kim Petterson, Professor,
University of Turku,
Coffee break with poster sessions
Session 2: Drug Discovery and Drug Delivery systems
"Towards engineering stable colloidal suspensions for pharmaceutical and biomedical
applications". Sameer V. Dalvi Assistant Professor, Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of
Technology Gandhinagar Ahmedabad, Gujarat
“Nanopharmaceuticals – an enabling tool for flexible design of drug delivery systems”
Jessica Rosenholm, Professor, Åbo Akademi University, Turku Finland
Turun yliopisto • University of Turku
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"Protein crystallography in drug discovery: ADP-ribosyltransferases”
Lari Lehtiö Associate Professor, Univeristy of Oulu, Finland
Session 3: Biomaterials and tissue engineering
"Strategies for Chondrocyte culture : Technology Development for Cartilage Tissue Regeneration" Prof Pradeep Srivastava, PhD, School of Biochemical Engineering, IIT(BHU), Varanasi
“Modelling and development of human spare parts - from in silica to in vitro” Jari Hyttinen, Professor, Computational Biophysics and Imaging group, Department of Electronics and
communication engineering, BioMediTech, Tampere University of Technology
Session 4: Miscellaneous health topics
“Challenges and opportunities of research in developmental disorder in India" Dr. Azizuddin Khan Associate Professor, Psychophysiology Laboratory, Department of Humanities
and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Water-repellent surfaces and fluorescent markers".
Robin Ras, Prof. Soft Matter and Wetting, Department of Applied Physics, Aalto University
End of the day 1 by 17.30
Evening reception at 19-20.30
28.10. Wednesday
9-11 Parallel Thematic workshops (topics to be defined based on discussions on day 1)
11-12 De-briefing (chairs of the workshops) , Way forward and concluding remarks (tbc)
12-13 Lunch
Afternoon optional programme (please register in advance)
13.15 – 14.30 Visit to the Turku Centre for Biotechnology (http://www.btk.fi/). Please note that
this visit contradicts with the beginning of the Turku Biomaterial Days.
If you wish to participate in this visit, you can join the seminar after the visit. The venues are
close to each other.
13.00 Turku Biomaterial Days 2015 start: Scientific INDO-FINNISH SEMINAR of Bioactive Materials
http://www.biomaterials.utu.fi/119-biocity-turku-biomaterials-research-program/articles/78-turkubiomaterials-days-2015
29.10. Thursday
Turun yliopisto • University of Turku
Kansainväliset palvelut • International Office
FI-20014 Turun yliopisto • FI-20014 Turku, Finland • www.utu.fi
Puhelin/Telephone +358 2 333 6142 • Email irinja.paakkanen@utu.fi
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9.00 – 13.30 Turku Biomaterial Days continue (please register in advance)
Turun yliopisto • University of Turku
Kansainväliset palvelut • International Office
FI-20014 Turun yliopisto • FI-20014 Turku, Finland • www.utu.fi
Puhelin/Telephone +358 2 333 6142 • Email irinja.paakkanen@utu.fi