TIME

EVENT

Place/Speaker

0830-0900

coffee / registration

Hall Chemistry Building

0900

Welcome addresses

Director / President

0910-0955

Plenary lecture I:
Using PNA-Dependent Gene Chemistry to Improve Gene Delivery

Philip Felgner,
Gene Therapy Systems, San Diego, CA, USA
Keywords: PNA, triple helix, transfection, non-viral gene delivery

0955

1000
1005
1010
1015
1020
1025

1030

P01a
P01b
P02
P03
P04
P06
P07
P08a
P08b
P09

Simeoni (Vassalli)
Vasalli (Vasalli)
Villard (Villard)
Walter (Walter)
Imhof (Mermod)
Fuhrmann (Herrera)
Seemayer (Gay)
Dreher (Dreher)
Kok (Dreher)
Bernasconi (Fontana)

1035

coffee break

1055
1100
1105
1110
1115
1120
1125
1130

P12
P13
P14
P15a
P16
P17
P18
P19

Kolakofsky (Kolakofsky)
Jones (Merlo)
Saulnier (Hossle)
Pereira de Almeida (Aebischer)
Schümperli (Schümperli)
Peter (guest)
Olie (guest)
Elzaouk (guest)

1135

Plenary lecture II:
Adenovectors as a Vehicles for Therapeutic Genes: Novel Approaches to Gene Therapy

Imre Kovesdi,
Genvec Inc., Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Keywords: replication defective adenovirus, in vivo delivery, cell and tissue specific targeting, preclinical disease models, angiogenesis

1210-1300

Poster visit, drinks, 1300 lunch

Hall , 'Salle de Lecture', Cafeteria EIF

1400
1410
1430
1440
1455
1510

1525

M01
M02
M03a
M03b
M04
M05a
M05b
M06

Luchsinger
Ceppi (Frey/Rusconi)
Wetterwald (Stadler)
Bisoffi (Stadler)
Oertli (Oertli)
Rüegg (Rüegg)
Foletti (Rüegg)
Iggo (Iggo)

1540

Coffee break

Hall

1600
1610
1625

1640

M07
M08
M09a
M09b
M10

Greber (guest)
Zufferey (Trono)
Kalberer (Wodnar-Filipowicz)
Luther (Wodnar-Filipowicz)
Aebischer (Aebischer)

1705 -1800

Closing Lecture:
Utility of the Genome Initiative for Presymptomatic Therapy
(sponsored by FRIMORFO SA Ltd.)

Tom Caskey,
Cogentech, Houston, TX, USA
Keywords: coronary artery disease, colon cancer, breast cancer

1800

Concluding remarks

SR: Welcome to final meeting 2001

1815

Drinks / Dinner 1930