Oxford Life Science Alliance (OLSA) Annual Symposium 2024 will be held on Thursday, 7th March 2024, at Richard Doll Lecture Theatre & Atrium, Oxford.

This year's symposium consists of three sessions: AI Technology in Medical Sciences, Single-cell in Organs, and Novel Therapeutics. In addition to the fantastic talks, there will be in-person networking opportunities. OLSA cordially invites you to participate in the symposium to exchange ideas and expertise with leading scientists in this endeavour.

We warmly welcome anyone interested in life sciences to join our symposium – it is completely free, with refreshments and lunch provided!

Thursday 7th March 2024, 09:30 - 18:15 BST

Richard Doll Lecture Theatre & Atrium

Old Road Campus

Oxford OX3 7LF

Registration Closed

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Agenda

9:30–10:00
Reception refreshments
10:00–10:10
Welcome speech
10:00–10:05
Greetings from local organiser
10:05–10:10
Opening speech
10:10–12:00
Session I: AI Technology in Medical Sciences
Chair: Dr Jianqing Zheng
10:10–10:40
Plenary Speech: Accelerating Healthcare and Life Sciences Innovations with Generative AI
10:40–11:00
Digital Twins for Precision Medicine—Generation of Synthetic Medical Data for Personalised Care
11:00–11:20
Using Wearables to Transform the Epidemiology of Physical Activity and Sleep
11:20–11:40
Artificial Intelligence in Medical Imaging for Disease
11:40–12:00
AI-Enabled Diagnosis of Infectious Diseases Using Affordable ECG Monitors in Resource-Limited Settings
12:00–12:05
Group photo
12:05–12:55
Lunch & posters
12:55–13:30
Flash talks
Chair: Ms Qidian Li
12:55–13:00
Role of Exosomes in Cancer Liquid Biopsy
Dr Kun Deng
13:00–13:05
Engineering NKG2D Ligand T Cell Engagers to Target Stressed Cells in the Tumour Microenvironment
Emma Page
13:05–13:10
Multi-morbidity Representation via Graph Learning: an Application to Hepatosplenic Disease in Sub-Saharan Africa
Dr Yin-Cong Zhi
13:10–13:15
A Preprocessing Pipeline for Liver Ultrasound Video for the Staging of Schistosomal Periportal Fibrosis
Eloise Ockenden
13:15–13:20
A Multilayer Network Approach to Principally Integrate Multimodal Data Identifies Molecular Phenotypes and Clinical Outcomes in Severe Infection
Piotr Sliwa
13:20–13:25
Build Cell Phylogeny Across Species With Evolutionary Assumptions
Yuanzhen Zhu
13:25–13:30
Multiple Omics Solutions Supported at the Center for Human Genetics, the University of Oxford
Dr Paolo Piazza
13:30–15:10
Session II: Single-cell in Organs
Chair: Mr Simiao Zhao
13:30–14:00
Plenary Speech: A Therapeutic Cell Atlas to Study Immune Mediated Inflammatory Diseases
14:00–14:20
Decoding inflammation in Cardiovascular Disease
14:20–14:40
Using Complementary Spatial Transcriptomic Profiling Techniques to Understand Cellular Behaviour in Cancer
14:40–14:55
Stereo-seq: Spatially Resolved Transcriptomics at Nanoscale
14:55–15:10
Harnessing the Power of Multiomics from a Single Sample
15:10–15:30
Refreshments & posters
15:30–17:15
Session III: Novel Therapeutics
Chair: Dr Shengpan Zhang
15:30–16:00
Plenary Speech: Academic Drug Discovery in the Centre for Medicines Discovery
16:00–16:20
Use of VLP Vaccines to Target Non-communicable Diseases
16:20–16:40
Soft Materials for Drug Delivery: from Nano to Micro
16:40–17:00
Building 3D Tissues for Disease and Repair
17:00–17:15
Real-world Mouse Models Accelerate Drug Development
17:15–18:15
Session IV: Career Panel Discussion
Chair: Dr Luyao Wang and Dr Wei Gan

Invited Speakers

Prof Tao Dong
Founding Director of the CAMS-Oxford Institute
Prof Zhanfeng Cui
Donald Pollock Professor of Chemical Engineering; Director, Strategic Projects China, MPLS; Founding Director of OSCAR
Prof Christopher Buckley
Kennedy Professor of Translational Rheumatology and Director of Clinical Research
Prof Aiden Doherty
Professor of Biomedical Informatics, Wellcome Trust Senior Research Fellow
Prof Bartlomiej Papiez
Group Lead for Medical Image Analysis and Machine Learning at Big Data Institute
Prof Paul Brennan
Professor of Medicinal Chemistry
Prof Tingting Zhu
Associate Professor in AI for Digital Health; Royal Academy of Engineering Fellow
Prof Claudia Monaco
Professor of Cardiovascular Inflammation
Dr Matthew Bottomley
Consultant Nephrologist; CAMS Oxford Institute NanoString Hub Lead
Dr Aadil El-Turabi
Vaccinologist Specialising in Virus-Like Particles
Mr Adam McCarthy
EMEA Head, Healthcare and Life Sciences ML Startups of Amazon Web Services
Dr David J Peeler
Marie Curie Fellow in Polymers for Vaccine Delivery
Dr Xiaodong Zhuang
Group Lead & MRC-CDA Fellow at UCL; Academic Lead of OLSA
Dr Ping Lu
Postdoctoral Researcher at Institute of Biomedical Engineering
Dr Lieselotte Erber
PhD, Study Manager, Azenta Life Sciences
Dr Yen-Yu Lin
Field Application Scientist Coordinator
Dr Linna Zhou
Investigator, Martin School Fellow
Ms Jenny Zhou
Associate Solutions Architect & Campus Ambassador of Amazon Web Services
Dr Qiuhong Li
PhD, Team Leader at Exscientia
Ms Nicole Chen
Study Director at GemPharmatech

Local Organising Committee

Dr Ying-Jie Wang
Chairman of OLSA
Siwei Deng
President of OLSA; DPhil Student
Yongyi Guo
President of OLSA; DPhil Student
Liying Jin
Academic Event Member of OLSA; DPhil Student
Dr Jianqing Zheng
Former President of OLSA; Postdoctoral Researcher
Simiao Zhao
Career & Entrepreneurship Member of OLSA; DPhil Student
Dr Shengpan Zhang
Postdoctoral Researcher
Jinyi Zhao
Career & Entrepreneurship Member of OLSA; DPhil Student
Dr Wei Gan
PhD, Senior Research Scientist, Novo Nordisk Research Centre Oxford
Xinyue Wu
Liaison Lead of OLSA; DPhil Student
Zhihan Bo
Academic Lead of OLSA; DPhil Student
Zhiyan Bo
Academic Member of OLSA; DPhil Student
Dr Luyao Wang
PhD, Career & Entrepreneurship Lead of OLSA
Qidian Li
Former President of OLSA
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