Events

May 22

Pharmacology Department Seminars

Professori Kirsi Pietiläinen. HY, Lääketieteellinen tiedekunta, tutkimusohjelmayksikkö
Lihavuuden uusi lääkehoito

Start time: 22/05/2024 13:15
End time: 22/05/2024 14:15
Duration:
Location: Biomedicum 1, seminar room B201a
Type: Seminar
Organization: UH, Faculty of Medicine
Contact person: Piet.Finckenberg@Helsinki.Fi
May 22

Big questions in neuroscience and current limits of knowledge

Disease-modifying therapies for neurodegenerative diseases – where are we going and do we ever reach the finish line?
Professor Timo Myöhänen, University of Helsinki

Host: Professor Iiris Hovatta
 
Timo Myöhänen is professor of Pharmacology at the Faculty of Medicine, University of Helsinki. His research group is focused on finding novel therapeutic targets and developing experimental compounds for neurodegenerative diseases, such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s diseases. Myöhänen’s lab has worked for several years with prolyl oligopeptidase (PREP) and shown that modulation of PREP with small-molecular compounds leads to disease-modifying effects in Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s disease mouse models. Their publication in Science Translational Medicine last year, describing disease-modifying effect of PREP ligands on different Tauopathy models, was awarded by the most outstanding article award of 2023 by Finnish Pharmaceutical Society. Recently, Myöhänen’s lab findings on PREP ligands led to the founding of Polku Therapeutics, a startup company aiming to take PREP ligands further in the drug development.
 
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Start time: 22/05/2024 15:15
End time: 22/05/2024 16:15
Duration: 1 hour
Location: Haartman Institute, lecture hall 2, Haartmaninkatu 3, 00290 Helsinki
Type: Seminar
Organization: UH, Faculty of Medicine
Contact person: katri.wegelius@helsinki.fi
May 23

iCAN science seminar: Prof. Catherine J. Wu,

Personalized Cancer Vaccines: Driving T cells into tumor



Start time: 23/05/2024 13:30
End time: 23/05/2024 14:30
Duration:
Location: Biomedicum 1, seminar room 3
Type: Seminar
Organization: iCAN Flagship Team
Contact person: ican@helsinki.fi
May 24

Dissertation: Sirkku Ahlström

Sirkku Ahlström,  University of Helsinki, Faculty of Medicine, Doctoral Program in Clinical Research
Clinical and genetic factors predicting propofol and rocuronium requirements, and post-operative nausea and vomiting

Opponent: professor Miia Turpeinen, University of Oulu



Start time: 24/05/2024 12:00
End time: 24/05/2024 14:00
Duration: 2 hours
Location: Naistenklinikka, Seth Wichmann -sali, Haartmaninkatu 2
Type: Dissertation
Organization: UH, Faculty of Medicine
Contact person: sirkku.ahlstrom@hus.fi
May 24

Dissertation: Verner Eerola

Verner Eerola, University of Helsinki, Faculty of Medicine, Doctoral Program in Clinical Research
Characteristics of organ donors and logistics of organ procurement for short- and long-term outcomes in abdominal organ transplantation

Opponent:  Assistant Professor Maria Irene Bellini, Sapienza University, Rome, Italy



Start time: 24/05/2024 12:00
End time: 24/05/2024 14:00
Duration: 2 hours
Location: HUS Siltasairaala, Ullanlinnasali, Haartmaninkatu 4
Type: Dissertation
Organization: UH, Faculty of Medicine
Contact person: verner.eerola@helsinki.fi