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XVII Paulo symposium
Biomedicum Helsinki
Main auditorium 13.-14.9.2002

13.9.2002  
9.00-9.05 Seppo Ylä-Herttuala: Opening remarks
Session I Chairman: Kari Alitalo
9.05-10.00 Inder Verma (La Jolla): Gene therapy. Facts and reality
10.00-10.30 Luigi Naldini (Torino): New lentiviral vectors
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00-11.30 Carlos Lois (Boston): A lentiviral strategy to target the germline
11.30-12.00 Stefan Kochanek (Cologne): Helper-dependent high capacity adenoviruses
12.00-12.30 Olivier Danos (Paris): Gene and cell-based therapies for muscle and brain disorders
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-14.00 Posters
   
Session II Chairman: Seppo Ylä-Herttuala
14.00-14.50 Ronald Crystal (New York): Angiogenic gene therapy
14.50-15.20 Kari Alitalo (Helsinki): Lymphangiogenesis using viral vectors
15.20-15.50 Coffee break
15.50-16.20 Seppo Ylä-Herttuala (Kuopio): Gene therapy of peripheral vascular disease
16.20-16.50 Karin Joos: Anti-angiogenic gene therapy
16.50-17.20 C.I. Edvard Smith (Stockholm): The Bioplex technology: hybridizing functions to plasmids by peptide-nucleic acids
17.30-18.30 FGTS Annual Meeting
19.00- Get together party at Biomedicum
   
14.9.2002  
Session III Chairman: Anu Jalanko
9.00-9.20 Akseli Hemminki (Birmingham): Adenoviral gene therapy for ovarian cancery
9.20-9.40 Katri Pajusola (Zürich): Targeting of AAV to the vascular wall
9.40-10.00 Kari Airenne (Kuopio): Baculovirus vectors
10.00-10.30 Coffee break
Selected papers from the abstracts
10.30-10.45 Kenneth Lundström: Clinical and preclinical cancer therapy studies with liposome-encapsulated drugs and viruses
10.45-11.00 Mikko Savontaus: Transcriptional targeting of conditionally replicating adenovirus to dividing endothelial cells
11.00-11.15 Mikko Laukkanena: Linear amplificaation mediated PCR in retrovirus clonal tracking in rhesus monkey model
11.15-11.30 Tanja Hakkarainen: CD40 is expressed in ovarian cancer cells and can be utilized for targeting adenoviruses
11.30-11.45 Juha Rutanen: Gene transfer to myocardium
11.50-12.00 Seppo Ylä-Herttuala: Closing remarks
12.00- Lunch