Prague 2014
New trends in CNS regeneration and treatment
Program of events:
September 15th
9.00-9.15
Opening address
Eva Syková (Prague)
Translational Medicine (chair Eva Syková)
9.15-9.45
Stem cells in regenerative medicine preclinical and clinical data
Eva Syková (Prague)
9.45-10.15
Translation in Research BioMediTech- environment for human spare parts
Juho Vaisanen (Tampere)
10.15-10.45 Applied nanotechnology and nanosafety
Johana Kuncova-Kalio (Tampere)
10.45-11.05 Coffee Break
Treatment of spinal cord injury (chair Serhiy Forostyak)
11.05-11.35 Biomaterials in SCI
Šárka Kubinová (Prague)
11.35-12.05 Fine-tuning the inhibitory chondroitin sulphate proteoglycans in promoting
regeneration
Jessica Kwok (Cambridge)
Horizon 2020 (chair Eva Syková)
12.05-13.05 Presentation
Speaker from EC Health Directorate TBC
13.05-14.45 Lunch and poster session
Advances in cell therapies (chair Šárka Kubinová)
14.45-15.15 Novel therapeutics for progressive multiple sclerosis: induced neural stem cells
(iNSCs) and stem cell-free (extracellular vesicle-based) approaches
Luca Peruzzotti-Jametti (Cambridge)
15.15-15.45 Neuronal differentiation and neuronal networks based on iPS
Susanna Narkilahti (Tampere)
15.45-16.15 Modulation of astrogliosis as a new approach in the treatment of spinal cord
injury
Slaven Erceg (Andalusia)
16.15-16.35 Coffee Break
Imaging in Regenerative Medicine (chair Pavla Jendelová)
16.35-17.05 Bio-imaging and computational modelling in Tissue Engineering
Jari Hyttinen (Tampere)
16.05-17.35 Axonal tracing using manganese enhanced MRI
Axel Sandvig (Trondheim)
September 16th
Stroke I (chair Axel Sandvig)
9.00-9.30
Cell therapy in the treatment of stroke
Ioanna Sandvig (Trondheim)
9.30-10.00
Cell generation from the Subependymal Zone stem cell niche in stroke and
demyelination: identifying the limitations of the system
Ilias Kazanis (Cambridge)
10.00-10.30 Post-stroke inflammation
Daniel-Christoph Wagner (Leipzig)
10.30-10.50 Coffee Break
Stroke II (chair Leonora Buzanska)
10.50-11.20 To be confirmed
Alexander Deten (Leipzig)
11.20-11.50 Project oriented imaging expertise
Alexander Kranz (Leipzig)
11.50-13.20 Lunch
Neurodegenerative diseases I (chair Ruma Raha-Chowdhury)
13.20-13.50 Autologous regenerative cells for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease patients in
preclinical stage
Leonora Buzanska (Warsaw)
13.50-14.20 Using rabies virus glycoprotein to tackle alpha synuclein pathology in Parkinson's
disease
Wei-Li Kuan (Cambridge)
14.20-14.50 TBC
Maria Barcikowska
14.50-15.10 Coffee Break
Neurodegenerative diseases II (chair Wei-Li Kuan)
15.10-15.40 To be confirmed
Ruma Raha-Chowdhury (Cambridge)
15.40-16.10 Stem cells and ECM in ALS disease
Serhiy Forostyak (Prague)
September 17th
9.30-11.30
11.30-11.45
Round table discussion
Closing address
Eva Syková (Prague)
11.45-13.15
Lunch