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Date and time: 21 May, 8:30-17:30
Location: Hugo Theorell, Granit, Dolomit and Antracit, 9th floor, North Entrance, Linköping University Hospital

Please note that the programme is still under development and additional speakers will be added continuously. Coffee breaks and lunch will be served in Ljusgården, just outside the halls, where the poster exhibition and the Research & Innovation Arena will also be located. It will be possible to attend the conference digitally.

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Register for the event, submit an abstract for presentations (oral or poster) and/or reserve a table at our Research & Innovation Arena.

Programme

Session 1 - Welcome and introduction

08:30-08:40 - Welcome and introduction (Hugo Theorell)

  • 08:30-08:35 Welcome to the BME@LIU day
    Elin Nyman, Head of Department, IMT
  • 08:35-08:40 Overview of programme
    Gunnar Cedersund, IMT, chair of programme committee

08:40-10:00 Keynote 1 and 2 (Hugo Theorell)

  • 08:40-09:30 BME@LIU 50 years - history, the present, and the future
    Joint presentation by several speakers including e.g.: Daniel Simon (ITN), Tino Ebbers (CMIV/HMV), and Matts Karlsson (IEI/LiU leadership)
  • 09.30-10.00 Whole-body MRI characterization to understand the mechanistic impact of weight-reducing drugs
    Speaker: Mikael Forsgren (HMV, AMRA medical AB)
Please note that the programme is still under development and additional speakers will be added continuously.

Session 2: Coffee, posters and Research & Innovation Arena

10:00-10:30 Coffee, posters and Research & Innovation Arena (Ljusgården)

Coffee will be served in Ljusgården, located just outside the lecture rooms Hugo Theorell, Granit, Dolomit and Antracit.

Session 3: Parallel sessions

10:30-12:00 Biosensors, materials and actuators

Session organisers: Daniel Aili (IFM), Rolf Saager (IMT), Daniel Simon (ITN)

Speakers
  • “Advancing melanoma diagnostic surgery using non-invasive spectral precision diagnostics”
    Malin Malmsjö, Lund University

More speakers will be selected from submitted abstracts.

10:30-12:00 Modeling and AI

Session organisers: Gunnar Cedersund

Speakers
  • Usage of structured graph modeling to identify mechanisms of actions for drugs - theory and examples
    Oleg Sysoev (IDA) and Jonathan Mangion (AstraZeneca)

More speakers will be selected from submitted abstracts.

10:30-12:00 eHealth and clinical implementation

Session organisers: Tiny Jaarsma (HMV, coordinator of eHealth Strategy Area) and Gunnar Cedersund (IMT, chair of programme committee)

Speakers
  • Deciphering epigenetic data to predict cardiovascular and metabolic health and biological age using Explainable AI
    Mika Gustafsson (IFM and PredictMe)

More speakers will be selected from submitted abstracts.

Session 4 - Lunch, posters and Research & Innovation Arena

12:00-13:30 Lunch, posters and Research & Innovation Arena (Ljusgården)

Lunch will be served in Ljusgården, situated just outside the lecture rooms Hugo Theorell, Granit, Dolomit and Antracit. Here, you will also find posters featuring scientific presentations and the Research & Innovation Arena with presentations from companies and organisations.

Session 5 - Parallel sessions

13:30-15:30 Life Science Technologies (LSX)

Organizers: Daniel Aili (IFM), Daniel Simon (ITN), Rolf Saager (IMT)

Speakers
  • Overview of the LSX initiative
    Daniel Aili (IFM)
  • Hybrid modeling to analyse multivariate data of inflammation in intensive care (tentative title)
    Sara Bergstrand (HMV, RÖ), Elin Nyman (IMT, engineer)

More speakers will present from different LSX projects.

Read more about Life Science Technologies - LSX

13:30-15:30 Medical imaging and visualisation

Speakers
  • Usage of whole-body composition when diagnosing liver patients
    Mattias Ekstedt (HMV, RÖ) and Mikael Forsgren (HMV, AMRA Medical AB)

More speakers will be selected from submitted abstracts.

Session 6: Coffee, posters and Research & Innovation Arena

15:30-16:00 Coffee, posters and Research & Innocation Arena (Ljusgården)

Coffee will be served in Ljusgården, located just outside the lecture rooms Hugo Theorell, Granit, Dolomit and Antracit.

Session 7 - International keynote speakers

16:00-17:00 International keynote speakers (Hugo Theorell)

To be announced.

17:00-17:10 Final words (Hugo Theorell)

17:10-17:40 Mingling and final chance to see posters (Ljusgården)

Final mingling in the poster area and Research & Innovation Arena in Ljusgården.

Related information

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Register for BME@LiU 2025

Register for the event, submit an abstract for presentations (oral or poster) and/or reserve a table at our Research & Innovation Arena.
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BME@LiU 2025

Welcome to BME@LiU 21 May 2025 - a conference day filled with activities related to research and work conducted within the field of biomedical engineering at Linköping University.

Organiser

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Department of Biomedical Engineering (IMT)

A national centre for research, PhD studies and graduate studies within biomedical engineering, since 1972.

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