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Webinar 1.3.2022

Health Tuesday: Changing the world with vaccine innovations

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Sampo Sammalisto
Head of Personalized Health Finland Program
sampo.sammalisto (at) businessfinland.fi
+358 50 584 1100

Join our Health Tuesday event if you are interested in hearing latest news on vaccine research in Finland!

The history of vaccine development has seen many great achievements and also Finland has a long history of successful vaccine research and development. Today vaccines are “hot topic” due to COVID-19 pandemic. There has been a lot of activities in Finland recently related to vaccines, e.g. a new company Rokote Laboratories Finland Oy was established based on the academic research and also another new company Rokotetutkimuskeskus Finvac Oy was established, owned by University of Tampere and Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare THL.

Agenda

8.00 Opening Words
Sampo Sammalisto, Head of Personalized Health Finland, Business Finland

8.05 Different phases of vaccine development (at the Tampere University Vaccine Research Center)
Mika Rämet, Director of Vaccine Research Center, Professor, University of Tampere

8.20
THL strategy for vaccine trials and the new company with Tampere University
Arto Palmu, Research manager, Clinical Vaccine Research, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare, THL

8.35 Rokote Laboratories Finland Oy – Finnish vaccine development company
Tuija Keinonen, CEO and Erkko Ylösmäki, Director, R&D, Rokote Laboratories Finland Oy

8.50 Closing words
Sampo Sammalisto, Head of Personalized Health Finland, Business Finland

9.00 Health Tuesday event ends

Please find the presentations below:

Opening words
THL strategy for vaccine trials and the new company with Tampere University
Rokote Laboratories Finland Oy – Finnish vaccine development company