Biobio Society invites you to celebrate its 80th anniversary!

Chembio trade fair 2026 is organised in Helsinki Convention and Exhibition Center 15-16.4.2026. Chembio is an biannually organised event that gathers the most recent information of the industries together with distinguished professionals, companies and their decision makers. The event provides effective encounters and creates a forum for both the academic world and the business world to meet. You can participate in the event (free of charge) by registering.

Finnish Biosciences from Roots to Peaks – Celebrating 80 years of Biobio society
ChemBio, Helsinki Convention and Exhibition Center 16.4.2026

Session 1:
9:30-9:45 Mikko Karpale, Chair of the Biobio society – welcome and opening words
9:45-10:15 Eve-Riina Hyrkäs (University of Oulu) - In Virtanen’s kingdom: New perspectives to the history of Finnish biochemistry
10:15-11:00 Kari Alitalo (University of Helsinki) – Growth factors for vascular engineering
11:00-11:45 Manuel Joao Costa (University of Minho, Portugal) – Embracing active learning: why it remains essential in the age of AI
11.45-13:15 Break

Session 2:
13:15–14:00 Nobel Laureate Morten Meldal (Univ. of Copenhagen, Denmark) presented by Finnish Peptide Society – Molecular click adventures: what clicking can do for peptide structure and function
14:00–14.30 Sarah Butcher (University of Helsinki) - TBA
14:30-15:00 Break
15:00–15:30 Ville-Petri Friman (University of Helsinki) – Using phages to promote plant growth
15:30-15:50 Jette Lengefeld (University of Helsinki and Karolinska Institutet) – Like an expanding universe: Enlargement of hematopoietic stem cells drives their metabolic collapse
15:50-16:10 Henri Leinonen (University of Eastern Finland) – Drug repurposing and systems pharmacology: Case retinal dystrophies
16:20-17:30 Biobio society annual meeting