Conference Day 1, 14 September 2016
09:00 – 09:15
Opening Session
Greetings: Prime Minister of the Republic of Lithuania Mr. Algirdas Butkevičius
09:15 – 10:00
Nobel Prize Laureate Prof. Dan Shechtman, Israel
Technological Entrepreneurship – Key to World Peace and Prosperity
10:00 – 10:15
Refreshments
10:15 – 11:00
Session:
Private-public partnerships in life sciences research and innovation
- Mr. Yūji Kuroiwa, Governor of the Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
- Mr. Takaaki Iwasa, Executive Director, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
- Mr. Yoshiaki Tsukamoto, Executive director, Japan Bioindustry Association
- Mr. Marius Skarupskas, Viceminister of Economy of the Republic of Lithuania
- Mr. Zhang Shixin, Deputy Director General of the Department of Science & Technology of Shandong Province
11:00 – 11:10
- Rudy Van Eijsden, Netherlands, Digital Quantification of Nucleic Acids and Proteins
- Rokas Janauskas, Lithuania, Regulation of clinical trials in Lithuania
- Tadas Juknius, Lithuania, Smart Bandage – Medical Device that Can Control Healing Process
11:40 – 13:10
11:40 – 13:10 | ||
11:40 – 12:10 |
Keynote: David Mirelman, Israel |
Keynote: Makoto Suematsu, Japan |
12:10 – 12:30 |
Vytenis Arvydas Skeberdis, Lithuania |
Irene Fermont, Israel |
12:30 – 12:50 |
Desire Collen, Belgium |
Kenjiro Kosaki, Japan |
12:50 – 13:10 |
Dagi T Forcht, USA |
Vidmantas Petraitis, USA |
13:00 – 17:00
Workshop Horizon 2020: Opportunities for SMEs by Agency for Science, Innovation and Technology together with the Ministry of Economy
13:10 – 14:15
Lunch
14:15 – 14:50
Plenary
Michael May, Canada
CCRM: Maximizing Commercial Outcomes from Academic Discovery Through Global Collaboration
14:50 – 15:00
- Laura Kaliniene, Lithuania, Bacterial viruses: have we harvested it all? The lessons we learned from studying unique phage
- Veronique Jasner, Israel, Risk Management in medical devices using animal tissues
- Arvydas Ūsas, Lithuania, Muscle-derived stem cells for tissue engineering and regeneration
15:00 – 15:30
Poster Session. Coffee Break
15:30 – 17:00
15:30 – 16:00 |
Keynote: Takuya Yokokawa, Japan |
Keynote: Ryan Wiley, Canada |
16:00 – 16:15 |
Aras Mattis, USA |
Manfred Horst, France |
16:15 – 16:30 |
Makoto Asashima, Japan |
Vitalis Briedis, Lithuania |
16:30 – 16:45 |
Valentin Fulga, Canada |
Juergen Bauer, Germany |
16:45 – 17:00 |
Arik Hasson, Israel |
Ariel Blumovich, Israel |
Conference Day 2, September 15
09:00 – 09:50
Plenary
Lumir Hanus, Czech Republic
Endocannabinoid System, Phytocannabinoid History, and Israeli Model for MMJ
09:50 – 10:00
- Eriks Jakobsons, Latvia, Tissue evacuated during joint replacement procedure as a significant source of mononuclear cells
- Juozas Kupcinskas – Lithuania, Challenges and Perspectives of Biomarker Research in Complex Gastrointestinal Diseases
- Prof. Zeev Zalevsky – Israel, The Era of Entrepreneurship and Innovation in Bio-Medical-Optics
10:00 – 10:30
Poster Session. Coffee Break
10:30 – 12:15
10:30 – 10:50 |
Ronen Shemesh, Israel |
Keynote: Luis Lasalvia, USA |
10:50 – 11:10 |
Tomas Andrejauskas, Lithuania |
Linas Jonušauskas, Lithuania |
11:10 – 11:30 |
Mangirdas Malinauskas, Lithuania |
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11:30 – 11:45 |
Arita Dubnika, Latvia |
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11:45 – 12:00 |
Shay Leventhal, Israel |
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12:00 – 12:15 |
Domantas Ozerenskis, Lithuania |
12:15 – 13:15
Lunch
13:15 – 15:45
Startup Pitch Challenge
Top 10 entrepreneurs of Life Sciences Baltics 2016 Startup Program on stage at exhibition area
13:15 – 13:50
Plenary
Virginijus Siksnys, Lithuania
CRISPR-Cas9: From Microbial Antiviral Defense System to Genome Editing
13:50 – 14:00
- Janis Ancans, Latvia, Standardized Cell Transplantation for Treatment of Tendon Injuries in Horses
- Vaida Surviliene, Lithuania – The Use of Saliva Samples to Estimate Levels of Steroids in Grey Seal (Halichoerus Grypus) Pups
- Sima Garberytė, Lithuania, Evaluation of Predictive Markers in the Ovarian Cancer Microenvironment and Peripheral Blood
14:00 – 14:30
Poster Session
14:30 – 16:00
14:30 – 15:00 |
Serge Pampfer, Belgium |
Yoshihide Esaki, Japan |
15:00 – 15:20 |
David Quarm, United Kingdom |
Anna-Winona Struck, Germany |
15:20 – 15:40 |
Osvaldas Pugovics, Latvia |
Mauricio Wajngarten, Brazil |
15:40 – 16:00 |
Aiste Jekabsone, Lithuania |
Alisa Buchman, Israel |
Winner of Life Sciences Baltics Pitch Challenge
- Koatum (Latvia). A med-tech startup, working on development of hybrid bioactive medical implant coatings. The method allows creating multiple bioactive layers on one implant, where both isolative and bioactive features are present. As a result, no metal-to-tissue contact is guaranteed, providing for rejection-free faster healing with no complications. Patients, suffering from intolerance of implants, are also able to rehabilitate.
Participants of Life Sciences Baltics Pitch Challenge
- BabyMoon Project (Moldova). It is a biomonitoring system, based on a baby carrier, specially designed for premature babies, that uses sensor technology for biomonitoring the vital signs and development of the baby, and sends the collected data to a mobile app for parents, to web interface for medical personnel and to its API for data analysis.
- CheeksUp (Latvia). A startup building a virtual mirror game that interacts with patients through visual biofeedback used for orofacial rehabilitation (facial nerve paralysis) and articulation improvement for children.
- Violet Cell (Lithuania). They develop technologies for interfacing therapeutic cells with human body. Their technologies allow cells to survive in environments where they usually do not – this enables advancing synthetic biology and cell therapies towards clinical applications, as currently this is limited by the issue of therapeutic cell rejection.
- Fidens (Lithuania). A company creating devices for treatment of blood circulatory disorders and hands shake stabilizer for Parkinson’s disease.
- Antimicrobial silicone coatings and antimicrobial catheters (Lithuania). A team that created antibacterial catheters and silicone coatings with strong antibacterial effect to gram positive and gram negative bacterial strains using multifunction, unique nanocomposites. These new, cheap silicone-nanocomposites material could be used as catheters materials and in other medical fields.
- Fractomus (Lithuania). A company that develops innovative tools for biotechnology industry based on direct, as well as indirect application of proprietary type of electromagnetic fields, which stimulate and control biochemical and biological processes across a full range of scale – from atomic to cellular to inter-cellular. The novelty of indirect application involves various mediums which can absorb, maintain and transfer the effect of electromagnetic fields.
- Breathcount (Lithuania). A device and an app monitoring lung functionality and helping to prevent asthma attacks.
- Aresi Labs (UK). A multidisciplinary startup focusing on the areas of innovation and digital development, and providing services in 3 major areas: Intelligence & Consulting, Research and Software Development.
- Koatum (Latvia). A med-tech startup, working on development of hybrid bioactive medical implant coatings. The method allows creating multiple bioactive layers on one implant, where both isolative and bioactive features are present. As a result, no metal-to-tissue contact is guaranteed, providing for rejection-free faster healing with no complications. Patients, suffering from intolerance of implants, are also able to rehabilitate.
- Conelum (Latvia). A startup developing rapid microbiological diagnostic tests for food and drink industry companies.