Welcome to the open lectures with the 2025 honorary doctors of medicine and pharmacy!

You don't need to register in advance, but places are limited, so be sure to arrive on time!

Program

1:30–1:40 p.m.

's welcome speechMats Larhed, Vice-Chancellor, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmacy

Session I: Medicine

Moderator: Karin Forsberg Nilsson, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine

1:40–2:00 p.m.

“Exploring 100 million years of evolution to discover the genomics of exceptional health”
Dr. Elinor Karlsson, associate professor of genomics and computational biology at UMass Chan Medical School and director of Vertebrate Genomics at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard

2:00–2:20 p.m.

“The role of health diplomacy in today’s multipolar world”
Dr Hans Kluge, Director of the WHO Regional Office for Europe

2:20–2:40 p.m.

“Medical issues in the Linnaean correspondence”
Eva Nyström, historian of ideas, formerly affiliated with the Department of History of Ideas at Uppsala University

2:40–3:00 p.m.

Coffee break

Session II: Pharmacy

Moderator: Mathias Hallberg, Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy

3:00–3:20 p.m.

“Lipoplexes and solid lipid nanoparticles for delivery of RNA”
Dr. Peter Langguth, Professor of Pharmaceutical Technology and Biopharmacy at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz in Germany

Summary

3:20–3:30 p.m.

Closing remarks
Mathias Hallberg, Dean of the Faculty of Pharmacy
Karin Forsberg Nilsson, Dean of the Faculty of Medicine

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