| Date & Time | 5 February 2025 at 12.00-13.00 CET |
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| Location | Online |
Please save the date for Bridging Nordic ATMP a new ATMP Webinar Series hosted by the Nordic EATRIS Nodes (Sweden, Norway and Finland).
The seminar series will take place online 12.00-13.00 CET once every month starting 5 February 2025 with a lecture by Professor Magnus Essand. Title of presentation: “Novel cell and gene therapies for the treatment of cancer – The Uppsala experience” More about Magnus:
Essand obtained his PhD at Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden in 1995 and his postdoctoral training at the National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, USA. He returned to Sweden in 2000, first as an Associate Professor and from 2009 as a full Professor at the Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University. Essand has tutored twelve PhDs to the completion of their doctoral thesis and is currently the main supervisor of four PhD students and five postdocs. He has published more than 100 original peer-reviewed scientific research articles.
Research activities in Essand’s group concern tumour immunology and immunotherapy of cancer, focusing on developing novel therapies based on chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells, viral vectors, and oncolytic viruses with the ability to potentiate anti-tumour immune responses. Essand is currently the sponsor’s representative for two early-phase clinical trials evaluating advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs) developed in his laboratory; One trial treating relapse/refractory neuroendocrine cancer patients with an oncolytic virus; and one trial treating relapse/refractory B-cell lymphoma patients with armed CAR-T cells. A newly developed adeno-associated virus (AAV)-based gene therapy is in the pipeline. Find out more about Magnus and his publications here.
The webinar will be moderated by prof Pontus Aspenström (National Director of EATRIS Sweden) on the image here.
Register for the webinar here.
The next webinars will be held on:
- 12 March 2025 – David Morrow, EATRIS Senior Scientific Programme Manager
- 2 April 2025 – Seppo Ylä-Herttuala, Professor at University of Eastern Finland
- 7 May 2025 – Kamal Mustafa, Professor at the University of Bergen
- 4 June 2025 – Anna Pasetto, Professor at University of Oslo & Marie Gårdmark, Regsmart
Remember to save the dates and look out for updates on each individual webinar prior to the event starting January 2025.
