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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!

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 
Title: "CD19 CAR T cells: Prototypes for living drugs"
10:00 - 10:30

WCMM talks 

Speakers: 

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

WCMM talks 

Speakers: 

  • WCMM Fellow Filipe Pereira | Title:“Humoral Immunity is Required for Dendritic Cell Reprogramming Immunotherapy”
  • DDLS Fellow Camila Consiglio | Title: “Decoding the Human Immune–Reproductive Crosstalk at the Systems Level"
  • WCMM Clinical Researcher Karin Tran Lundmark | Title:"Synchrotron-based biomedical imaging"
  • WCMM Fellow Vinay Swaminathan | Title: “Role of integrins in the mechanical tumor microenvironment”
12:00 - 13:30Lunch | AF-borgen "Athen"
13:30 - 14:00Inspirational talk | Prof. Rolf Berger - Pediatric cardiologist & translational scientist,
University of Groningen
Title: "On the clinical eye and scientific breakthroughs"
14:00 - 14:30

Panel discussion: Translational Science in Sweden 

Panelists: Maria Björkqvist (Lund University), Jesper Petersson (Skåne University Hospital), Rolf Berger, Göran Hansson (KAW), Madeleine Durbeej-Hjalt (Vetenskapsrådet), 

14:30 - 15:30Coffee & Poster session |Galleriet & Pelarsalen
15:30 - 16:30Keynote Speaker | Prof. Lotte Bjerre Knudsen - Pioneer in GLP-1 agonists - Novo
Nordisk
Title: “GLP-1 Receptor Agonists: Medical Impact and Learnings for New Drug Discovery”
16:30 - 17:00Final remarks | WCMM Lund - Past, Present and the Future


 

Meet the Speakers

September 18 

Universitetshusets Aula, Paradisgatan 2, 223 50 Lund

Last updated: 15 Sep 2025 | lisa [dot] karlsson [at] med [dot] lu [dot] se