Welcome to the Neurocenter Finland kick off webinar “Better neuroscience through collaboration” on 16th of November at 3-5 PM (Helsinki time).

How collaboration can create success? What could be the results of effective translational research collaboration?
How could Neurocenter Finland help you to find the right collaborator for your research?   

For future success in field of neuro research in Finland, we need to be open to effective collaboration among each other’s. In this webinar we will hear inspiring speeches and examples of research collaboration from research centers abroad.

The webinar is open to anyone interested and will be free of charge. The webinar will take place in Zoom and the event will be recorded.

Registration is mandatory (by November 15th 2021) via link below.

The language of the event is English.

Tentative program:

15.00 Opening words – Mikael von und zu Fraunberg, Director of Neurocenter Finland

15.10 Building a word-class neurological disease centre, the experience from FutureNeuro – Professor of Human Genetics Gianpiero Cavalleri, RCSI University of Medicine and Health Science and Deputy Director of the SFI FutureNeuro Research Centre

15.35 How collaboration can bring success – Professor Pierluigi Nicotera, The German center for neurodegenerative diseases (DZNE)

16.00 Genotype-Phenotype Analyses in 10,000 Individuals With Psychosis Highlights Complex Role of Genetic Variation in Presentation and Etiology –
Dr. Tarjinder Singh, Massachusetts General Hospital/Harvard Medical School

16.25 Defining Myeloid Cell States and Function in Alzheimer’s Disease – Professor Beth Stevens, Boston Children´s Hospital

16.50 Future directions and closing words – Mikael von und zu Fraunberg, Director of Neurocenter Finland

For more information:
Merja Jaronen, Program Director, merja.jaronen@uef.fi