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Linköping University Life Science Meeting is a one-day meeting with a focus to bring together students, graduates and team members with our partners from the life science industry, academia, the health care system and invited international lecturers. The meeting will provide an arena for networking and to make our students aware of the knowledge and skills they already have or will acquire which will be required to work at the forefront of biomedical research and innovation.
The 2022 Life Science Meeting will be dedicated to biomedical research adapting to urgent social needs following the spread of COVID-19 and the achievements from public and private sector in tracking, predicting and responding at a never before seen pace during a pandemic.
9.00 Welcome
9.10 Maria Lerm Professor in Medical Microbiology (LiU)
A research journey through good times and pandemic times
9.40 Pia Sjögren Director of Technology. (Pfizer Health AB)
Pfizer in Strängnäs – Breakthroughs that change patients' lives.
10.10 Åsa Lothigius, Talent Acquisition Partner Biopharmaceuticals R&D (AstraZeneca AB)
Recruitment Opportunities in a rapidly changing environment.
10.40 Leg stretcher
11.00 Sofie Sundberg Medical Science Liaison (Lundbeck AB)
A day as a medical science liaison
11.30 Susanna Lönnqvist, R&D administrator (Center for Disaster Medicine and Traumatology, Region Östergötland)
Science communication and monitoring
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00 Magnus Refshammar Head of R&D (Dynamic Code AB) Enabling high quality primary healthcare using lab based diagnostics with telemedicine
13.30 Sofie Önnestam and Jennie Hermansson Talent Acquisition Partner and R&D Scientist (Cepheid AB) Enabling access to molecular diagnostic testing everywhere.
14.00 Anneli Carlander Head of unit, Coordination and Surveillance COVID-19 (Public Health Agency of Sweden) Title to be announced
14.30 Leg stretcher
15.00 Debora Lind PhD student. (Institute of Virology and Immunology and the University of Bern) The challenges of doing a PhD abroad during a pandemic
15.45-16.15 Moa Nilsson , Laboratory Engineer (Dynamic Code AB) A program alumni in a Health-Tech Company
9.10 A research journey through good times and pandemic times
I lead a research team and international research collaborations as well as teaching a variety of courses
9.40 Pfizer in Strängnäs - Breakthroughs that change patients' lives.
10.10Recruitment Opportunities in a rapidly changing environment.
In my role I lead workforce planning and anticipate talent needs within Biopharmaceuticals R&D and as such supporting our hiring managers and HR professionals in taking the right decisions. On a daily basis I develop and execute sourcing plans, initiate and drive talent attraction activities, screen and interview candidates and support the managers in pre-selection and offer management for our roles within R&D at AstraZeneca.
11.00A day as a medical science liaison
Presenting and translating data from studies on Lundbeck drug agents to internal staff and healthcare professionals. Engaging with key external experts and organizing scientific meetings and symposia in psychiatry and neurology.
11.30 Science communication and monitoring
I work for the multidisciplinary research group at KMC with communication and research support; project planning and communication, grant applications, monitoring and reporting.
13:00 Enabling high quality primary healthcare using lab based diagnostics with telemedicine
13:30 Enabling access to molecular diagnostic testing everywhere.
Cepheid played a big role in developing and manufacturing Covid-19 tests during the pandemic. Sofie will present career opportunities in diagnostics and Jennie will talk on how her company developed diagnostics test to meet the need of the market.
14:00 Title to be announced
15:00 The challenges of doing a PhD abroad during a pandemic
Debora Lind is a former LiU student who is now working towards her PhD at the Institute of Virology and Immunology in Switzerland. She studies the impact of a group of cytosolic protease inhibitors that are highly expressed in granulated immune cells and is investigating their role in regulating the survival of these cells in steady-state and during infection, using both in vivo and in vitro models.
15:30 A program alumni in a Health-Tech Company
I am a former student at both the bachelor program Medical Biology and the masters program Experimental and Medical Biosciences. My main group is in Operations (routine production) but I also work with the Research & Development team. In the routine production I analyse STIs, BV/Candida, celiac disease, covid PCR, covid antibodies and more. My projects currently in the R&D group is implementation of our celiac test onto automatic instruments as well as working with IVDR compliance (in-vitro diagnostic regulation).
LiU Life Science Meeting 2022 will be a digital event through Zoom. Please register at the link below to receive a link for the webinar. You can register up until the end of the event and everybody is welcome. With the registration you will receive a reminder with the link 1 hour before the webinar.
Do you have what it takes and are interested in a career within Biomedicine?
Are you interested in applying theory in Biomedicine in projects from industry, healthcare or academia? Learning how to manage running projects with skills in entrepreneurship and business development. Then the BSc program in Experimental and Industrial Biomedicine will give you exciting years!
Read more about the programme
The Experimental and Medical Biosciences master’s programme prepares students for a scientific career within the broad field of the life sciences, with particular emphasis on understanding cellular and molecular mechanisms related to health and disease.
Read more about the programme
LiU Life Science Meeting is an annual themed conference held at Linköping University since 2018. Click below to read about previous conferences.
→Go to the conference page for 2018
→Go to the conference page for 2019
Linköping University, LiU, conducts world-leading, boundary-crossing research in fields that include materials science, IT and hearing. In the same spirit, the university offers many innovative educational programmes, frequently with a clear professional focus and leading to qualification as, for example, doctors, teachers, economists and engineers. LiU was granted university status in 1975 and today has 27,000 students and 4,000 employees. The students are among the most desirable in the labour market and international rankings consistently place LiU as a leading global university.
jonas.wettero@liu.se Programme Director for BSc
jordi.altimiras@liu.se Programme Director for MSc
