Timeline A selection of scientific conferences organized in 2015 by researchers of the Vetmeduni Vienna:
13.-14. April: Cell therapy symposium With the motto “The Fountain of Youth”, the Vetmeduni Vienna set the tone for the annual meeting of the Platform for Advanced Cellular Therapies (PACT), a network for research and knowledge transfer composed of: Vetmeduni Vienna, Medical University of Vienna, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Experimental and Clinical Traumatology, Danube University Krems and the blood bank of the Red Cross of Linz.
7. May: Animal welfare conference The annual conference of the Austrian Veterinarians for Animal Welfare (ÖTT), held in the Banquet Hall of the Vetmeduni Vienna, was dedicated to the topic “Suffering caused by unmet needs”.
12.-16. July: Evolution researchers in Vienna For the first time, the annual meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution (SMBE) took place in Vienna. Organized by the Institute for Population Genetics, the symposium – with 1,500 researchers, 340 presentations and 750 scientific posters – was the largest annual meeting of the SMBE thus far.
Photo: © Manuel Knoflach-Schrott/Vetmeduni Vienna
Scientists from 24 countries, who are active in the field of veterinary immunology, exchanged experiences at the European Veterinary Immunology Workshop (EVIW), held in September on the campus of the Vetmeduni Vienna.
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