Neuro-SysMed-seminar – Julia Romanowska

(Engelsk tekst videre siden seminarene er internasjonale og undervisningsspråket på seminarene er engelsk.)

Title:  DRONE perspective on how drug consumption is associated with neurodegenerative diseases 

Speaker: Julia Romanowska

Julia is a bioinformatics expert (senior engineer) at BIOS, where she uses her expertise in data science, bioinformatics, biostatistics, programming, and data visualization to explore big data, efficiently run complex analyses, and visualize results. She is involved in various projects, among others, as co-PI of the DRONE project (Drug Repurposing fOr NEurological diseases) at IGS/Neuro-SysMed and an active researcher in the START project (Study of Assisted Reproductive Technology), at the Centre for Fertility and Health, Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Oslo. 

Place: The auditorium in Armauer Hansens Hus (campus Haukeland University Hospital, Bergen)

Time: Wednesday October 23, 2024, at 11:30–13:00 (lunch 11:30–12:00).

Registration: please use this link

Abstract: DRONE (Drug Repurposing fOr Neurological disEases) project has as a goal to use agnostic approach and epidemiological methods to screen for associations between drug usage and being diagnosed with a neurodegenerative disease, such as Parkinson’s (PD), multiple sclerosis (MS), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), and Alzheimer's disease (AD). 

In this presentation, Julia will give a brief summary of what the group has achieved up till now and what is planned for the nearest future. She will focus on two projects where the group is searching for drugs that can be repurposed to treat PD patients. In these projects, they are collaborating with several other countries to make their results robust and to confirm epidemiological findings with experiments in vitro and in vivo. 

Note that some of the results presented are preliminary and confidential, therefore we ask you not to take pictures or recordings. 

Lecture langage: English