Twinning on DNA-Based Cancer Vaccines (VACTRAIN)
Aim
Description
Project activities
- Staff exchange visits, seminars, coordination of summer schools
- Implementation of teaching and experimental laboratory courses
- Visits by experts, short term courses offered on site
- Participation in conferences and preparation of publications
- Dissemination of project results and community information events
- Project management
Project coordinator Maria Issagouliantis, RSU Lead Researcher
Project partners
- Rīga Stradiņš University (RSU), Latvia (leading partner)
- Karolinska Institutet (Sweden)
- R. E. Kavetsky Institute of Experimental Pathology Oncology and Radiobiology of National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (Ukraine)
- Uniwersytet Łódzki (Poland)
Project output
- 2016.
- Training course “IN VIVO GENE DELIVERY” November 16 - December, 2016, MTC/Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Symposium “TARGETS OF IMMUNOTHERAPY OF CHRONIC VIRAL INFECTIONS AND CANCER” Rīga Stradiņš University, Riga, Latvia May 24 - 26, 2016
- Supplementary lecture course in Applied Biophysics by Lodz University Rīga Stradiņš University, Riga, May 27, 2016
- Training course “GENE EXPRESSION” June 14 - 15, 2016, Kavetsky Institute of the Experimental Pathology, Oncology and Radiology, Kyiv, Ukraine
Symposium “INTEGRAL CLINICAL AND PATHOGENETIC APPROACHES IN DIAGNOSIS AND THERAPY OF CANCER” RE Kavetsky Institute of Experimental Pathology, Oncology and Radiobiology, Kyiv, Ukraine, June 13 - 15, 2016
Individual training “DNA IMMUNIZATION AND FOLLOW UP OF IMMUNE RESPONSE IN MICE BY DIRECT IMMUNE AND INDIRECT BIOLUMINESCENCE-BASED METHODS”, May 26 - August 5, 2016, MTC/Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
Dissemination activities: Participation in organization and attendance of the international conference “TOOLKITS FOR DNA VACCINE DESIGN, AN UPDATE” Moscow, November 17 - 20, 2016
Training course “IN VIVO GENE DELIVERY” November 16 - December, 2016, MTC/Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- 2017.
- International VACTRAIN/ 3rd Swedish-Ukrainian Workshop on cancer diseases “Search for tumor specific targets” Karolinska institutet, Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell biology Stockholm, January 16 - 17, 2017
- Dissemination activities: Seminar for students of Utrecht University Rīga Stradiņš University, Riga, April 18, 2017
- Dissemination activities: Attendance of 4th International SKIN VACCINATION SUMMIT Leiden, the Netherlands, May 22 - 24, 2017
- Training course “DENDRIMERS@SMALL MOLECULE APPLICATIONS”,February 7 - May 28, 2017, Department of General Biophysics, University of Lodz, Poland
- Dissemination activities: Seminar of the TWINNING projects implemented in Latvia Rīga Stradiņš University, Riga, May 31, 2017
- First round individual training "DENDRIMERS & SMALL MOLECULE APPLICATIONS” May 22 - June 10, 2017 Department of General Biophysics, University of Lodz, Poland (DGB/UL)
- Second round individual training "DENDRIMERS & SMALL MOLECULE APPLICATIONS” June 10 - July 9, 2017 MTC/Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Individual training “TUMOR TRAINING” June 26 - July 27, 2017 MTC/Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
- Dissemination activities: 2017 International Society for Vaccines (ISV) Annual Congress Paris, Institute Pasteur in Paris on October 5th - 7th 2017
- 2018.
A seminar “Progress of the VACTRAIN project” will be held on 16 February at 13:00 p.m. in the RSU Senate Hall at 16 Dzirciema iela. Speakers will be Margaret Liu, ProTherImmune, University of San Francisco, USA, Maksim Ionov, University of Lodz, Poland, Ilya Gordeychuk, Chumakov Federal Center for Research and Development of Immune and Biological Products, Russia, Maria Issagouliantis, RSU, Latvia, Džeina Mežale, RSU, Latvia.
Anyone interested in attending should register by 14 February, e-mail: asja[pnkts]lunga
rsu[pnkts]lv (asja[dot]lunga[at]rsu[dot]lv); ph. 67409152
