KEYNOTE LECTURES
DNA Nanostructures for Cellular Delivery of Therapeutics
12:00 – 1:00 PM | Auditorium (building 20)
A keynote lecture by Hanadi Sleiman, Professor of Chemistry and Canada Research Chair in DNA Nanoscience at McGill University. Hanadi Sleiman creates synthetic DNA that can be used as building blocks structures to make DNA nanotechnology for drug-delivery more scalable and commercially practical.
Personalized Medicine in the Reproductive Area
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM | Auditorium (building 20)
A keynote lecture by Rene Frydman, Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Hôpitaux de Paris. He is a university professor, government advisor, and the doctor responsible for the birth of the first in-vitro baby in France.
ACADEMIC LECTURES
Demystifying the Review Process
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM | Auditorium, Level 0, Between Buildings 4 and 5, Spin
By Andre Nel – Professor of Medicine at University of California – and Professor Hanadi Sleiman – Professor of Chemistry at McGill University.
The KAUST Smart Health Initiative from “bench to bedside” : promoting research collaborations in the Kingdom
4:00 PM – 5:00 PM | Auditorium (building 20)
By Pierre Magistretti – Distinguished Professor and Dean of the Division at Biological and Environmental Sciences and Engineering at KAUST.
EXHIBITS & ACTIVITIES
Know your Health numbers by KAUST Health | Today: Your Family Doctor and Holistic Healthcare
10:00 AM – 2:00 PM | Campus Spine
KAUST Health believes in treating people, not symptoms, and providing comprehensive healthcare for all everyone. We will surprise you with our experience and what services we provide. Meet Dr. Adeel Ahmad and Dr. Laura McCulloch. Take part and enter today’s health-orientated prizes: Trek bike (with safety accessories) and digital thermometers.
CULTURAL EVENTS
Film Festival: Once Upon a Time… Life – Vaccination
1:15 PM – 2:00 PM | Discovery Cinema
Dr. Ramatoulie Jack, from KAUST Health, will introduce and lead the discussion of this screening.
Film Festival: Gattaca
8:00 PM – 9:15 PM | Discovery Cinema
Starring Ethan Hawke and Uma Thurman, with Jude Law, Loren Dean. Gattaca is a fiction about genetic discrimination in the future based on DNA sequencing. Christian Froekjaer Jensen, assistant professor of Bioscience at KAUST will introduce and lead the discussion of this screening.
“Set for Love” will be jazz, with a little bit of everything in musical styles: ballad, blues, bolero, bossa, samba, swing, tango, and waltz.