Program 2007

16.30 Welcome meeting
We will gather for a welcome meeting at the conference hotell; SAS Radisson Royal Hotel at Bryggen.
News from the Nordic countries: Brief update on what has happend in general at the University Hospitals in the Nordic countries since last year's NRC conference. At the preconference you will get an update on what has happened at University Hospitals in the Nordic countries since last year's NRC.

Topics of interest:

- organisational changes in health care
- development in standards and practices of research
- the relationship between university & hospital
- new legislation.

18.00 Boat trip
We will attend a boat trip together and the highligt will be a visit to the famous seafood restaurant;

Cornelius at Holmen outside Bjorøya (an island outside Bergen). Hopefully this will be one of those breathtaking evenings when Bergen and surroundings is at it's best.

 

Day 1
Monday 14th of May 2007

09.00 Registration

09.30 Welcoming adress by Jan Olofsson

09.35 "Frontline Medical research - a University Hospital Challenge"
speaker: Stener Kvinnsland, Managing director Helse Bergen HF

09.50 "How to encourage and support research at a University Hospital.
The Aalborg story."
speaker: Hans Gregersen

10.20 "The HPV vaccine - a research success story. What now?"
speaker: Ole Erik Iversen

10.35 Coffee break

Ethics

10.45 "Children as research subjects"
speaker: Ansgar Berg

11.15 "Genetics and Ethics: Some Lessons from Iceland"
speaker: Viljálmur Arnason

11.45 Questions and discussion

12.15 Lunch

Vaccination & Cancer

13.15 "Vaccination in a global perspective"
speaker: Bjarne Bjorvatn

13.45 "Facing an influenza pandemic? Scientific and political challenges"
speaker: Lars R. Haaheim

14.15 "HIV vaccination - a reality?"
speaker: Birgitta Åsjø

14.45 Coffe break

15.00 "Clinical aspects on anti-tumor vaccines"
speaker: Guiseppe Masucci

15.30 "Vaccination strategies in head and neck cancer: Expectations, reality and the future"
speaker: Theresa Whiteside

Immunology

16.00 "Translational studies in autoimmunity with special reference to Sjøgrens syndrome"
speaker: Roland Jonsson

16.30 "IgE and allergic inflammation"
speaker: Stig Gunnar Olof Johansson

17.00 "Anaphylaxis in the O.R."
speaker: Anne Berit Guttormsen

17.15 end

19.00 Reception at Håkonshallen (The King’s Banqueting Hall)
by the City Mayor Hermann Friele

20.00 Conference Dinner, Radisson Sas Royal Hotel, Bryggen
We will be dining in an elegant, old-world charm room.

 

Day 2
Tuesday 15th of May 2007

08.30 "Monitoring of researcher initiated clinical trials"
speaker: Annette Jørgensen

09.10 "Impact-hunting or translationality: Any contradiction?
- a new practice in Finnish scientific administration?"
speaker: Erkki Wuolijoki

Brain research

09.30 "Experiences from establishing Umeå Center for Functional Brain Imaging (UFBI)"
speaker: Lars Nyberg

10.00 Coffee break

10.10 "fMRI - a new method for the study of brain function:
Challenges for the clinic?"
speaker: Kenneth Hugdahl

10.40 "Use of PET in Clinical Dose-Finding Studies of Novel CNS Drugs"
speaker: Mika Scheinin

11.10 Discussion

12.00 Lunch

Commersialisation

13.00 "How to commersialise a medical research project"
speaker: Arne Godal

13.30 "Commercializing medical research based innovations in Medicon Valley"
speaker: Stina Gestrelius

14.15 Coffe break

14.30 "You have the cure, but you?re the only one who knows it.
When commercialisation matters."
speaker: Anders Haugland from Bergen Teknologioverføring AS

15.00 "The future of NRC – content, organisation and development"
chairperson: Jan Olofsson

Summary and conclusion:
What have we learned during the conference?
Which lessons to bring back home?
What is the future of NRC?

The participants will be challenged to give their views.