OUR Program 2025 – 5th edition
| 7:45 | Bus Departure from Marriott |
| 8:15 – 8:45 | Registration |
| 8:45 – 9:00 | Opening Remarks |
| Session Chair: Reiko Kuroda |
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| 9:00 – 9:30 | Alexander Rich Lecture Alan Fersht, Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge, UK |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Paula da Fonseca, University of Glasgow, UK |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Marika Rioult, 3-D Matrix Group |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Alessandra Micera, Fondazione Bietti, Italy |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Sadayuki Ito, Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Chris Tate, MRC, University of Cambridge, UK |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch and Self-assembly |
| Session Chair: Maria Masucci |
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| 13:30 – 14:00 | Reiko Kuroda, Tokyo University of Science, Japan |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Martin Egli, Vanderbilt University, USA |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Suzanne Hagan, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Coffee Break + POSTER SESSION |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Ehud Gazit, Tel Aviv University, Israel |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Sarah Morgan, University of Manchester, UK |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Andrew Marshall, Scion Life Sciences, USA |
| 17:15 | Bus departure to Marriott |
| 18:30 – 20:30 | Welcome Cocktail (Marriott Geneva) |
| 8:15 | Bus Departure from Hotel Marriott |
| Session Chair: Philip Morgan |
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| 9:00 – 9:30 | Kyoichi Tanaka Lecture Ed Boyden, MIT, USA |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Erling Norrby, Swedish Academy of Science |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Tatiana Suarez Cortes, FAES FARMA, Spain |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Amy E. Keating, MIT Biology, USA |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Bengt Norden, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | James Weis, MIT Media Lab, USA |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch and Self-assembly |
| Session Chair: Mouad Lamrani |
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| 13:30 – 14:00 | Daniela Nosch, FHNW University, Switzerland |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Vladimir Katanaev, University of Geneva, Switzerland |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Karl Heinz Krause, President of the Geneva Foundation for Medical Research |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Phillip Messersmith, UC Berkeley, USA |
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Coffee Break + POSTER SESSION |
| 16:00 – 16:30 | Steve Newman, Menicon Co., Ltd, Japan |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Andreas Keilbach, Product Manager for small-angle X-ray scattering at Anton Paar GmbH, DE |
| 17:00 – 17:30 | Mahnaz Nouri |
| 17:45 | Bus departure to Marriott |
| 8:15 | Bus departure from Marriott |
| Session Chair: Erling Norrby |
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| 9:00 – 9:30 | Carleton Gajdusek Lecture Shuguang Zhang, MIT, USA |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Li-Huei Tsai, MIT, USA |
| 10:00 – 10:30 | Coffee Break |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Philip Morgan, University of Manchester, UK |
| 11:00 – 11:30 | Ingemar Ernberg, Karolinska Institute, Sweden |
| 11:30 – 12:00 | Maria José Alonso, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Maria Masucci, Karolinska Institute, Sweden |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch and Self-assembly + Group Photo |
| Session Chair: Vladimir Katanaev |
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| 13:30 – 14:00 | W. Gregory Sawyer, Moffitt Cancer Center, USA |
| 14:00 – 14:30 | Hiroshi Fukumura,Tohoku University and Idea International Co., Japan. |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Piera Versura, University of Bologna, Italy |
| 15:00 – 15:30 | Horst Vogel, EPFL Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology / Chinese Academy of Sciences (SIAT/CAS) |
| 15:45 | Bus departure to Marriott |
| 18:00 | Departure at Marriott Geneva |
| 18:30 – 24:00 | Gala Dinner (Castle Voltaire, France) |
| 8:45 | Bus departure from Marriott |
| Session Chair: Shuguang Zhang | |
| 9:30 – 10:00 | Yogeshvar N Kalia, University of Geneva, Switzerland |
| 10:00-10:30 |
Lichun He, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN |
| 10:30-11:00 | Alper Karagöl & Taner Karagöl, Istanbul University – Istanbul Faculty of Medicine |
| 11:00-11:30 |
Mikhail Kryuchkov, University of Geneva, Switzerland |
| 11:30-11:45 | Final Remarks |
| 12:00 | Bus departure to Marriott |
The topics to be presented
Monday, 21 July 2025
Alan Fersht: From protein folding and stability biophysics to the clinic: from Phi to PhiKan
Paula da Fonseca: Cryo-EM, proteasomes and drug discovery
Marika Rioult: Patenting proteins and peptides: plights, pros, and proposals
Alessandra Micera: Features and potential applications of tears as an analysis matrix for biomarker detection in ophthalmological routine
Sadayuki Ito: Application of self-assembling peptide hydrogel to bone graft substitute
Chris Tate: Positive cooperativity enhances coupling of two G proteins to a GPCR dimer
Reiko Kuroda: Left and Right: Does it matter?
Martin Egli: Structural Models of QTY Code Designed Water-Soluble Membrane Proteins
Suzanne Hagan: Tear Fluid Biomarkers in Ocular and Systemic Disease: A Focus on Dry Eye Disease and Diabetes
Ehud Gazit: Peptide and Metabolite Self-Assembly: Physiology, Pathology and Nanotechnology
Sarah Morgan: Presbyopia – a global problem
Andrew Marshall: How to build a peptide company
Tuesday, 22 July 2025
Ed Boyden: Technologies for Understanding Biological Systems
Erling Norrby: A Bouquet of Nobel Prizes
Tatiana Suarez Cortes: Tear Protein and Peptide Biomarkers in Dry Eye Disease: From Discovery to Point-of Care Translation
Amy E. Keating: Modeling and designing protein-peptide interactions
Bengt Norden: Base-triplets with orthogonal bases in extended form of DNA and hydrophobic catalysis: common origin of homologous genetic recombination and syntax of genetic code?
James Weis: UNKNOWN
Daniela Nosch: Factors associated with Contact Lens Discomfort: Ocular surface thermography and tear protein concentration
Vladimir Katanaev: Isoform-selective Frizzled inhibitors for safe and efficient anticancer therapies
Karl Heinz Krause: Gene therapy for retinal disease: challenges and opportunities
Phillip Messersmith: Supramolecular Prolyl-4-Hydroxylase Inhibitors for Tissue Regeneration: Stem Cell Therapy Without the Stem Cells
Steve Newman: Photobiomodulation and its possible role in myopia
Andreas Keilbach: Insights into the structure and conformation of biomolecules using SAXS
Mahnaz Nouri: UNKNOWN
Wednesday, 23 July 2025
Shuguang Zhang: The QTY code for membrane protein engineering
Li-Huei Tsai: Frequency Matters: Gamma Sensory Stimulation Activates Neuropeptide Signaling to Provide Neuroprotection
Philip Morgan: Towards a model for contact lens discomfort
Ingemar Ernberg: Rethinking cancer: unresolved enigmas in understanding the biology of nasopharyngal carcinoma (NPC)
Maria José Alonso: From Oral Delivery to Intracellular Targeting: New Frontiers in Protein-Based Nanomedicine
Maria Masucci: Remodeling of the Ribosome Quality Control by Viral Ubiquitin Deconjugase
W. Gregory Sawyer: mmuno-Oncology in Three Dimensions | Cells, Gels, and Cancer Dynamicity
Hiroshi Fukumura: Progress in Near Infrared Luminescence of Perovskite Materials: fundamentals and application
Piera Versura: Tear protein profile in rheumatological patients. Data from a clinical setting
Horst Vogel: Investigating cellular signaling mediated by membrane proteins. The impact of novel technologies for drug discovery
Thursday, 24 July 2025
Yogeshvar N Kalia: Overcoming biological barriers to drug delivery and developing methods to understand drug biodistribution
Lichun He: Molecular Chaperones Modulate the Excited States and Activities of Folded Enzymes
Alper Karagöl, Taner Karagöl: Evolutionary Dynamics of Membrane Proteins Through Water-Soluble Variants
Mikhail Kryuchkov: AEGIS nanocoatings: advanced biomimetic surface engineering for contact lenses
