FibroHealth Symposium 2025: Translating Cell Biology into the Obesity Research and Drug Development - Focus on Adipose Tissue, Bone and Metabolism

FibroHealth symposium 2025

Translating Cell Biology into the Obesity Research and Drug Development - Focus on Adipose Tissue, Bone, and Metabolism

Time: 19 November, 2025

Place: Technopolis Peltola, Yrttipellontie 1, 90230, Oulu, Finland and online

Registration: Registration is now open!

Preliminary Programme

08:30-08:55 Registration and coffee (Auditorium Yrttipellontie 1)

08:55-09:00 Welcome (organizers)

Cellular Biology in Unravelling the Mechanisms Behind Obesity and Response to the Treatment

09:00-09:30 Preliminary topic: Epigenetic mechanisms underlying obesity and cardiometabolic diseases: Sara Hägg, Karolinska Institutet

09:30-10:00 Preliminary topic: Bone plenary TBA

10:00-10:30 Coffee & posters

New Frontiers in Metabolic Research and Patient Perspectives

10:30-10:50 Preliminary topic: GLP-1 and its secretion: Ghulam Raza, Oulu

10:50-11:10 Preliminary topic: Distinct mitochondrial responses upon bariatric surgery and calorie limitation: Birgitta van der Kolk, Helsinki

11:10-11:30 Preliminary topic: Brown adipose tissue PET imaging: Mueez U-Din, Turku

11:30-11:50 Patient story Jenny Hurtola

12:00-13:15 Lunch at own cost in Restaurant and coffee shop Myrsky & Annual autumn meetings of FASO, FCB, and FBS (meeting rooms)

Integration of Cell and Bone Biology in the Obesity Research and Drug Development

13:15-13:35 Preliminary topic: 3D white adipocyte cell culture models: TBA

13:35-13:55 Preliminary topic: EVs and adipocytes: Johanna Matilainen, Helsinki

13:55-14:15 Preliminary topic: Bone marrow fat and its effect on bone cells: Kaisa Ivaska, Turku

14:15-15:05 Coffee & posters, sponsors' stands

Next-Gen Science: Young Researchers Shaping the Future

15:05-15:25 Preliminary topic: Angiogenesis in adipose tissue: Sinem Karaman, Helsinki

15:25-15:40 Abstract talk 1

15:40-15:55 Abstract talk 2

15:55-16:10 Abstract talk 3

16:10-16:25 FASO doctoral thesis award presentation 2024

16:25-16:30 Final conclusions (organizers)

19:00- Conference dinner (place TBA) and the Young Investigator Prize

Abstract Submission

Do you wish to have your abstract as a candidate for an oral or poster presentation? Three abstracts will be selected for an oral presentation, and all approved abstracts will be invited for a poster presentation.

Abstract submission for both oral and poster presentations is now open! Deadline is 19 October!

Approved oral and poster abstracts will be published in the event PDF booklet, which will be available for all registered participants. All participants can submit an abstract, but only doctoral researchers and postdocs can be candidates for the Young Investigator Prize.

Welcome to participate!

The symposium is organized collaboratively by the University of Oulu Fibrobesity program, the Finnish Association for the Study of Obesity (FASO), the Finnish Cell Biologists, and the Finnish Bone Society (FBS).