Conferences and symposiums Inauguration of the Karolinska ATMP Center

Name: Inauguration of the Karolinska ATMP Center
Start: 2025-08-25T09:00:00+0200
End: 2025-08-25T16:00:00+0200
Location: Other

25-08-2025 9:00 am - 4:00 pm Add to iCal

Other Södertörn University Auditorium, Flemingsberg

Three images side by side showing a person working in a lab and wearing a hair net, a pair of hands with green gloves holding a test tube and a doctor treating a patient in hospital.

Karolinska ATMP Center Photo: Liza Simonsson,Joakim Lindberg

Step into the future of medicine - Welcome to the inauguration of the Karolinska ATMP Center.

Explore breakthroughs in cell and gene therapies, novel strategies to target previously “undruggable” diseases, and the launch of a dedicated nucleic acids therapeutics hub. Discover cutting-edge cell therapies for neonatal lung injury and Parkinson’s disease, alongside pioneering clinical studies in CAR-T and tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes.

Karolinska ATMP Center - a strategic investment to accelerate translational research to clinical application

Morning session (in Swedish)

Moderator: Olof Akre, Professor and Director, FoUU, Karolinska University Hospital

Afternoon session (in English)

Moderator: Ewa Ellis, coordinator Karolinska AMTP Center

Program

Monday Aug 25

09:00 – 09:10

Välkommen

Moderator:
Olof Akre, Direktör FoUU Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset

09:10 – 09:30

K-ATMP centrum – en strategisk satsning från Karolinska Institutet och Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset

Talare:
Knut Steffensen, föreståndare Karolinska ATMP-Centrum

Matti Sällberg, Karolinska Institutet

09:30– 09:45

Officiell invigning

Talare:
Aida Hadzialic, finansregionråd region Stockholm

Christophe Pedroletti, sjukhusdirektör Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset

Annika Östman Wernerson, rektor Karolinska Institutet

09:45 – 10:00

Att leva med sällsynta diagnoser: patientens syn på ATMP

Talare:
Oskar Ahlberg vice ordförande Riksförbundet Sällsynta Diagnoser

10:00-10:15

Gen- och cellterapi – ett historiskt perspektiv

Talare:
Edvard Smith, Karolinska Institutet

10:15 – 10:30

Neuromuskulära sjukdomar

Talare:
Thomas Sejersen, Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset

10:30-10:45

Genterapi vid ärftlig blindhet

Talare:
Anders Kvanta, Karolinska Institutet och S:t Eriks ögonsjukhus

10:45-11:00

CAR-T behandling i Sverige – en succéhistoria

Talare:
Stephan Mielke, Karolinska Universitetssjukhuset och Karolinska Institutet

11:00-12:00

LUNCH

12:00-12:45

Developing Nucleic Acids into Therapeutics- Turning the Undruggable to Druggable

Speaker:
Shalini Andersson Vice President Nucleic Acid Therapeutics, AstraZeneca

12:45-13:05

The Nucleic Acid Therapeutics Hub; gene therapy and advanced gene delivery

Speakers:
Rula Zain, Karolinska University Hospital and Samir El Andaloussi, Karolinska Institutet

13:05-13:20

Cell-based therapies for neonatal lung injury – from the bench to the clinic and back again

Speaker:
Ewa Henckel, Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet

13:20-13:45

Coffee break

13:45-14:15

Collaboration between Uppsala and Stockholm including CAR-T clinical studies

Speakers:
Gunilla Enblad, Akademiska Hospital

Magnus Essand, Uppsala University

14:15-14:30

Development of a therapeutically high-effective cell product for Parkinson’s disease.

Speaker:
Johan Ericson, Karolinska Institutet

14:30-14:40

NK cell-based immunotherapies against human cancer and beyond

Speaker:
Hans-Gustaf Ljunggren, Karolinska Institutet

14:40-14:55

Clinical trials with Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes at GMP-CCK.

Speaker:
Rolf Kiessling, Karolinska University Hospital and Karolinska Institutet

14:55-15:05

What’s next for Karolinska ATMP Center?

Speaker:
Knut Steffensen, Director Karolinska ATMP Center

15:05-16:00