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14 January 2009 / Ørestad / Denmark

Medicon Valley hosts the two largest Nordic universities and many university hospitals in addition to 300 research-based life science companies with a total of 45,000 employees. Almost 20,000 persons commute for work across Øresund, but this national border is still an obstacle when it comes to collaboration, prioritisation and funding of research and research infrastructure.

The aim of the Medicon Valley workshop is to give examples of top level research environments within in a distance of 45 minutes by car, and discuss if, why and how we could take advantage of this proximity.

Programme

8.30	Registration and coffee
9.00	Welcome by MVA's chairman Per Belfrage presentation
9.10	Road maps for Research Infrastructure: Danish aspects on ESS in the Øresund Region Inge Mærkedahl presentation (The Danish Agency for Science, Technology and Innovation)
9.30	Policies behind the Research Infrastructure in Medicon Valley: Copenhagen University/DPC; Ulla Wewer (Medicine) and Sven Frøkjær presentation (Pharmaceutical Sciences) Lund University; Ingemar Carlstedt (Medicine) and Klas Malmqvist presentation (R&I Infrastructure)
10.30	Coffee
10.45	Examples: Bioimaging: Liselotte Højgaard presentation (KU/Rigshospitalet) and Freddy Ståhlberg presentation (LU/Lund University Hospital) Biobanks and registries: Joakim Dillner presentation (LU/Malmö University Hospital) and Mads Melbye (SSI) Bioinformatics: Søren Brunak (DTU&KU)
12.30	Lunch
13.00	Cases: Cancer research: Carl Borrebaeck presentation (BMC Lund/CREATE Health) and José Moreira (Danish Cancer Society) Protein research & Maxlab+MAX IV: Nils Mårtensson (MAXLab) and Michael Sundström presentation (Novo Nordisk Foundation Center of Protein Research)
14.30	Discussion on research collaboration and funding across Øresund: Are we aware of and utilising our regional opportunities? Is regional infrastructure of interest to life science industry? How are the national priorities coordinated in our bi-national region? Can we utilize Nordic and European initiatives? Presentation Comments: Inge Mærkedahl (VTU), Lars Börjesson (Forskningsinfrastruktur/ VR), Karin Forsberg Nilsson (Medicin/VR), Katarina Nordqcist (VINNOVA), Sverker Ljunghall (AstraZeneca), Gard Titlestad (Nordic Council of Ministers), Liselotte Højgaard (KU), Sven Frøkjær (Farmaceutical Sciences/KU) and Bo Ahrén (Medicine/LU)
15.30	Future: ESS for life science research: Christian Vettier presentation (ESS Scandinavia)
16.00	Networking

Target Group

Medicon Valley Alliance in collaboration with ESS-Scandinavia invite universities, hospitals and the life science industry in Medicon Valley as well as research foundations, public research councils, and politicians to this exciting workshop.