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Welcome to VNPN-2
Virginia-Nordic
Precision Neuroscience II – Oslo, Norway, 19-21 September 2018:
From
discovery to translation and innovation
Venue: Main Auditorium, Rikshospitalet
/ Oslo University Hospital
Precision Neuroscience Defined: The opportunities and challenges of
designing and implementing targeted diagnostics and therapeutics for individual
genotype/phenotype manifestations of neurological and psychiatric disorders.
This second VNPN meeting is a continuation of the
first VNPN, organized in Roanoke, Virginia, USA, October 2016 http://vnpn.org/ Talk
videos 2016
The vision of the VNPN is to foster
advancement in neuroscience-based precision medicine, including diagnosis and
treatment founded on in-depth knowledge of brain mechanisms and their variation
depending on genetics/epigenetics and environment. This purpose shall be served by a trans-Atlantic collaboration along the
Virginia-Nordic axis, enhancing innovation and commerce both in the USA and in
the Nordic countries. (The VNPN initiative was in the portfolio of the Prime
Minister of Norway at the recent summit meeting with the President of the USA.)
Co-organizers are the University of
Oslo, Sunnaas Rehabilitation Hospital, and Oslo
University Hospital in Norway, together with Virginia Tech in the USA. The
meeting includes invited speakers from the US and Nordic countries. The meeting
lasts from Wednesday morning until Friday afternoon, with a get-together
reception at Oslo City Hall, hosted by the Mayor of Oslo, on Wednesday and a
festive dinner on Thursday evening, 20 September 2018.
The meeting comprises sessions where
researchers of varying seniority give concise
talks on related themes. There are Panel
Discussions on Thursday "Prospects of innovation for global brain
health" and Friday "Future of precision neuroscience".
Participants are encouraged to bring posters, which will be on display
throughout the meeting. On Thursday, there are flash-presentations of posters
and selection of “Best Poster”.
For optimum interaction, speakers are invited, as far as possible, to stay for
the whole three days
The meeting is open to all. It is ideal for trainees and students for Master and
PhD degrees, and particularly for physicians and other professionals
specializing in brain disorders (50% registration rate for trainees/students).
Although the heading is ‘neuroscience’, a wide range of mutually
interrelated themes is covered.
Featured Key-Note Speaker:
Nobel laureate Edvard I Moser (NTNU, Trondheim).
Organizers’ task-force:
Linda H Bergersen
(Oslo & Copenhagen, Chair), Clive Bramham
(Bergen), Mike Friedlander (Roanoke VA), Tor Haugstad
(Oslo), Hal Irvin (Roanoke VA), Jon Storm-Mathisen (Oslo)
Adviser on
Transatlantic Scientific and Industrial Collaboration:
Jostein Mykletun,
PhD, Norwegian Consul General & High North / Arctic Ambassador (ret)
Sponsors include:
Hosts: