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WCMM 10-year Anniversary Conference

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WCMM Lund Celebrates 10 Years of Research Excellence!

This year marks the 10-year anniversary of WCMM Lund — a decade of pioneering research, collaboration, and scientific breakthroughs. It's an excellent opportunity to highlight the progress we've made, the impactful work carried out by our researchers, and the many success stories that have shaped our community. To celebrate this milestone, we’re hosting a full-day conference where science takes the spotlight. 

Join us as we reflect on the past, showcase current research, and look ahead to the future of molecular medicine.

Check out the program and register today! Deadline 15 August. 

Program

8:30 -Arrival, coffee and poster set-up
09:00 - 09:10Welcome remarks | Gunilla Westergren Thorsson, Director WCMM
09:10 - 10:00Keynote Speaker | Prof. Michel Sadelain - Pioneer in CAR-T cells - Columbia University
10:00 - 10:30

WCMM talks 

Speakers: 

  • WCMM Clinical Researcher Anders Wittrup | Title: “Moving beyond mRNA vaccines - improved understanding of RNA delivery vehicles to enable next generation RNA drugs”
  • WCMM Clinical Researcher Gesine Paul-Visse | Title:“Cell therapy- has a new age come?”
10:30 - 11:00Fika | The poster hall
11:00 - 12:00

WCMM talks 

Speakers: 

  • DDLS Fellow Camila Consiglio | Title: “Biological influencing immunity”
  • WCMM Fellow Filipe Pereira | Title:“Humoral Immunity is Required for Dendritic Cell Reprogramming Immunotherapy Uncovering Biomarkers of Response”
  • WCMM Fellow Nicholas Leigh | Title: “Deciphering evolutionarily innovations of tumor resistance”
  • WCMM Clinical Researcher Karin Tran Lundmark | Title:"Synchrotron-based biomedical imaging"
12:00 - 13:30Lunch
13:30 - 14:00Inspirational talk | Prof. Rolf Berger - Pediatric cardiologist & translational scientist,
University of Groningen
14:00 - 14:30

Panel discussion: Translational Science in Sweden 

Panelists: Maria Björkqvist (Lund University), Rolf Berger, Stefan Jovinge (Region Skåne), Göran Hansson (KAW), Madeleine Durbeej-Hjalt (Vetenskapsrådet)

14:30 - 15:30Fika& Poster session | The poster hall 
15:30 - 16:30Keynote Speaker | Prof. Lotte Bjerre Knudsen - Pioneer in GLP-1 agonists - Novo
Nordisk
16:30 - 17:00Final remarks – WCMM achievements and the future


 

September 18 

Universitetshusets Aula, Paradisgatan 2, 223 50 Lund

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Last updated: 24 Jun 2025 | lisa [dot] karlsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se