Our junior researchers will have rich opportunities to showcase their research at oral and poster presentations. Selected late-stage young researchers will be given a possibility to present their work in short talks in order to enable further career moves by finding a match for postdoc work, senior mobility or future collaboration.

The Nordic POP 2024 will cover a diversity of scientific topics. Participating PhD students and post docs will have plenty of opportunities to showcase your research during oral presentations and poster presentations.

Wednesday 24 April

15:00-16:00 Registration and poster mounting
Foyer, University main building

16:00-16:30 Welcome lecture
Jukka Rantanen, Professor, University of Copenhagen
Christel Bergström, Professor, Uppsala University
Grand Auditorium

16:30-17:15 Keynote lecture
Matching the design of biomaterials for drug delivery with the disease microenvironment
Caitriona O’Driscoll, Professor, University College Cork
Grand Auditorium

17:15-18:00 Invited lecture
Optimizing immunomodulatory nanomedicines using matrix-nanoparticle interactions
Alexandra Stubelius, Assoc. Prof., Chalmers University of Technology
Grand Auditorium

18:00- Welcome event
Foyer, University main building

Thursday 25 April

08:00-08:30 Poster mounting
Foyer, University main building

08:30-08:40 Brief introduction day 2
Nordic POP representative (TBA)
Grand Auditorium

Session 1: Drug delivery and controlled release & Pharmaceutical manufacturing

08:40-09.20 Keynote lecture
Bioinspired composite materials to modulate drug release
Paola Luciani, Professor, University of Bern
Grand Auditorium

09:20-10:00 Keynote lecture
Pharmaceutical manufacturing:
Case CurifyLabs: Automated compounding in hospital pharmacies
Niklas Sandler, Curify Labs, Helsinki
Grand Auditorium

10:00-10:30 Morning break and poster presentation
Foyer, University main building

10:30-11:30 Drug delivery and controlled release
Presentations from PhD students, parallel sessions (15 min x 4)
Hall IV

10:30-11:30 Pharmaceutical manufacturing
Presentations from PhD students, parallel sessions (15 minx4)
Hall IX

11:30-12:30 Lunch

Session 2: Analytical and virtual tools

12:30-13:10 Keynote lecture
Novel barrier-on-chip models using microtechnology
Maria Tenje, Professor, SciLifeLab, Uppsala University
Grand Auditorium

13:10-13:50 Keynote lecture
Computational studies of pharmaceutical dosage forms
Per Larsson, Associate Professor, Uppsala University
Grand Auditorium

13:50-14:50 Poster presentations

14:50-15:50 Drug delivery and controlled release
Presentations from PhD students, parallel sessions (15 min x 4)
Hall IV

14:50-15:50 Pharmaceutical manufacturing
Presentations from PhD students, parallel sessions (15 min x 4)
Hall IX

15:50-17:00 Match-making presentations
By late-stage PhD students/young researchers
Hall IV, ​Hall IX

18:30-23:00 Conference dinner
Restaurant Hyllan, S:t Eriks torg 8, Uppsala

Friday 26 April

09:00-09:10 Brief introduction day 3
Nordic POP representative (TBA)
Grand Auditorium

Session 3: Patient centered delivery and advanced biomaterials

09:10-09:50 Keynote lecture
Gastrointestinal tract and drug delivery: looking inside the patients using magnetic resonance imaging
Luca Marciani, Professor, University of Nottingham
Grand Auditorium

09:50-10.30 Keynote lecture
Intracellular Drug Delivery: Overcome the Bottleneck for Biotherapeutics
Shiqi Wang, Professor, University of Helsinki
Grand Auditorium

10:30-11:00 Morning break, Poster demounting
Foyer, University main building

11:00-11:45 Patient centered delivery
Presentations from PhD students, (15 minx3)
Hall IV

11:00-11:45 Advanced biomaterials
Presentations from PhD students, (15 minx3)
Hall IX

11:45-12:00 Closing session, Award ceremony
Foyer, University main building

12:00 Lunch and departure
Foyer, University main building