Date: 27th March 2014
Time: 11.00 - 17.00
Locality: Aula François-Xavier Bagnoud HES-SO Sion
Conference free of charge

The first TEDD workshop in 2014 will take place at the School of Engineering of the University of Applied Sciences and Arts (HES-SO Valais/Wallis Sion) focussing on «Disease models and their use in industry» in cellular and molecular systems.  We will discuss the potential and the impact of key models.

TEDD, the Competence Centre “TISSUE ENGINEERING FOR DRUG DEVELOPMENT AND SUBSTANCE TESTING”, belongs to the biotechnet Switzerland. By organizing workshops TEDD pools and transfers knowledge and technologies in order to promote the advancement of in vitro 3D cell culture, as well as the broad application of innovative 3D tissue models.  

A panel of « Disease models » will be presented by speakers from industry and from academia.
 
 

PROGRAM

10.30 Registration and welcome coffee

11.00 - Welcome
By Joseph El Hayek, Director of the School of Engineering, HES-SO, Sion
By Bruno Schnyder, Institute of Life Technologies, HES-SO, Sion 

11h20-13h00 Morning seminar session

11.20 - 3D Engineered nervous tissues derived from human embryonic and iPS stem cells as in vitro models for neurotoxicity studies
By Luc Stoppini, hepia, HES-SO Ge

12.00 - Development of iminosugar-based pharmacological chaperone compounds for the treatment of mucopolysaccharidoses
By Stephane Demotz, Dorphan SA, Lausanne

12.30 - Aging skin cells naturally-in-vitro without the need for acute, artificial chemical treatments. 
By Peter Girling, CellnTec AG, Bern

Lunch Break 13h00-14h00

14.00 - 17.15 Afternoon seminar session - Chairman : Marc Pfeifer

14.00 - The Ark Foundation, Valais/Wallis: An incubator of sciences
By Massimo Nobile, CimArk, Sion
HES-SO Valais/Wallis and TheArk “a success story” 
By Bruno Schnyder, Sarah Wegmüller, Marc Pfeifer and Martial Geiser, HES-SO, Sion

15.15 - Towards in vivo-like lung epithelial microinjuries
By Marcel Felder, ARTORG; Bern

15.35 - Coffee Break

16.00 - Establishing a platform for the study of liver disease (fibrosis) in vitro
By Laura Suter-Dick, Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz, Muttenz

16.30 - Bioassays of the TNF superfamily 
By Pascal Schneider, Biochemistry Institute, Uni Lausanne

17.00 - Concluding remarks
By Bruno Schnyder, HES-SO Sion

 

INFORMATION

• train arrival from Geneva at 10h22 in Sion, and from Zürich at 10h34 in Sion;
• bus transport to stop “Sion Brasserie/hevs” at 10h28-10h33 by bus “PTT direction Anzère”, and at 10h45-10h50 by bus “PTT direction Crans-Montana”;
• 1 minute walk to Aula “XF Bagnoud” HES-SO
• Address: Route du Rawyl 47, 1950 Sion