The 8th RIKEN-KI-SciLifeLab Symposium
Preparing for the next pandemic
October 20 @ 09:30 – 16:30 CEST
COVID-19 pandemic responses were organized by countries according to their needs. The preparations for responses to potential future pandemics are currently addressed by organizations including RIKEN, Karolinska Institutet and SciLifeLab with prominent roles in Japan and Sweden, respectively. This symposium event, which is part of the RIKEN-KI-SciLifeLab Symposium Series, addresses the political, organizational and practical aspects of preparedness for potentially upcoming pandemics with focus on Japan and Sweden.
This symposium is co-organized and sponsored by JSPS Stockholm Office.
Date and location 2022-10-20 (THU)
09:30-16:30 Symposium
16:30-18:00 Social mingle
Symposium history
Each symposium of the series is centered on one specific topic. Topics from previous years are: Molecular Imaging and Genomics (2014), Structural Biology for Drug Discovery (2015), Decoding Health and Disease with a) Imaging & Disease, b) RNA & Disease, c) Single, Rare and Stem cells & Disease (2016), Life Science Frontiers in Health, Disease and Aging, with sessions a) Gene Expression in Disease and Aging, b) Neural Function, Disease and Therapy, c) Molecular Aspects of Health, Disease and Aging, d) Visualizing Health, Disease and Aging, e) Molecular Network Control (2017), Artificial Intelligence meet Life Sciences (2018), and Biomedical Data for Artificial Intelligence (2019, 2020).
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