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AVAILABLE PRESENTATIONS OF THE FORUM

WEDNESDAY 25TH

Plenary lectures, 13.30-14.00
Bo Samuelsson, Chairman of ScanBalt Organisation: "ScanBalt - metaregionalisation and EU"
Jyrki Myllyvirta, Mayor of Mikkeli, member of the EU Committee of Regions, Commission for Education and Culture: "Future of European research - is there a regional view?"

ScanBalt Competence Region, 14.00-15.30
Wolfgang Blank, BioCon Valley GmbH & ScanBalt initiative, Rostock, Germany: "ScanBalt CompetenceRegion - a pilot project to spot core competencies and capabilities in ScanBalt bioregion "
Bjarne E. Jensen, Oxford Research, Denmark: "Cluster analysis and competence mapping - key instruments to support regional development"
Jan C. Maier, Innoveas AG, Karlsruhe, Germany: "The innoveas platform for competence mapping - examples from European regions"

Venture Financing, 16.00-19.00
Mr. Tracy T. Lefteroff, Global Managing Partner, Life Sciences Industry Services, PricewaterhouseCoopers, San Jose, USA: "Status and prospects for Global Biotech/ Life Science business"
Dr Kalevi Kurkijärvi, Chairman and CEO, Bio Fund Management Ltd, Finland: "Status of European and Scandinavian Biotech / Life Science Business"
Lena Lebel, Bioventia Life Science Consultants Ltd, Uppsala Sweden: "Creating Successful Biotech Spinouts"

Environmental Biotech, 16.00-17.30
Liisa Viikari, Professor VTT, Finland: "Bioethanol research in Finland"
Birgitte Ahring, Professor, Danish Technical University: "Production of biofuels from lignocellulosic biomass"
Galina Telysheva, Professor, Riga University, Latvian State Institute of Wood Chemistry, Head of Lignin Chemistry Lab: "Non-hydrolyzed residue from bio-ethanol production: Potential impact in environment biotechnology and biological agriculture"

IPR, 17.30-19.00
Bowman J Heiden, Deputy Director Center for Intellectual Property Studies (CIP), Göteborg: "The Intellectual Property Balancing Act: Building a Sustainable Intellectual Infrastructure"
Niklas Bruun, Director of the IPR University Center, Helsinki, Finland: "IPR and the Nordic Innovation System"
Urban Paulsson, Partner, Bird & Bird: "Confronting the major IP issues facing the biotech industry"

THURSDAY

ScanBalt Campus, 08.30-10.00
Horst Klinkmann, BioCon Valley GmbH, Rostock, Germany: "ScanBalt Campus - an integrated educational project"
Mehdi Tavakoli, TWI Ltd., Cambrigde, United Kingdom: "An introduction to Training Activities of the Medical Devices Faraday Partnership and Life Sciences Doctoral Training centres in UK"
Boo Edgar, Goethenburg, Sweden: "Business School for Bio Sciences"

Biomaterials, 08.30-10.00
Jöns Hilborn, Polymer Chemistry, University of Uppsala: “Polymeric biomaterials and their interaction with surrounding cells and tissues”
Walter Gerike, Artoss GmbH, Germany: “Commercial strategies related to novel biomaterials”

Educational Mobility, 10.30-12.00
Sieglinde Gruber, European Commission, DG Research, Unit D1, Strategy and Policy Aspects
Vadim Vasilyev, Institute for Experimental Medicine, Sct Petersburg: “ScanBalt project Educational Mobility”
Ewa Lojkowska, Professor, University of Gdansk, Poland: "European exchange programmes for mobility of Polish students, researchers and teachers"

Marine Biotech, 10.30 - 12.00
Peter Aleström, Norwegian School of Veterinary Science in Oslo "ScanBalt Marine Biotechnology Network"

Stem Cell, 13.00-14.30
Peter Andrews, University of Sheffield, UK: "Human ES cells: self renewal and adaptation to culture"

Clinical Research Network, 13.00-14.30
Hannu T Aro, MD, PhD, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery University of Turku and University Central Hospital of Turku, Finland: "Systematic RSA testing of new joint implants before their approval: a solution in prediction of late problems?"
Ardo Reinsalu, Curonia Research, Estonia: "New Technologies in Patient Management: Doc@Home"

Boosting Baltic FP6, 14.30-16.00
Frank Graage, Head of Steinbeis Transfer Center "Technology Management Northeast", Rostock, Germany and Coordinator of Scanbalt EU-Project "Boosting Baltic FP6"
Valdis Pirags, Head of Latvian Genome Project, Riga, Latvia: "Economic Transition in the Baltic Countries. Look from the inside”
Lise Vinkel, ScanBalt Secretariat, Copenhagen, Denmark, Project Manager Boosting Baltic FP6: "Introduction of the EU project "Boosting Baltic FP6" and first results"

Biobanks and Ethical Issues, 16.00-17.30
Werner Christie, World Health Connections, Ridabu Norway
Jaanus Pikani, Estonian Genome Foundation, Tartu, Estonia

Agrobiotech, 16.00-17.30
Jari P.T. Valkonen, Professor, Dr, University of Helsinki, Department of Applied Biology, Helsinki: "Biotechnology-based research on Root-Microbe Systems Biology"
Evgeny Andronov, Senior scientist, Genetics Lab ARRIAM, Pushkin, St.-Petersburg: “Symbiotic Rhizobia in gene center of host plant”
Margareta Welander, Professor, Dr, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), Dept. of Crop Science,Alnarp, Sweden: “Methods to study and improve rooting in woody species”
Sari Timonen, PhD, docent, University of Helsinki, Finland: “Microbial communities of mycorrhizospheres”

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