Speakers

Vytenis Arvydas Skeberdis
(Chief scientist in the Institute of Cardiology, Lithuanian University of Health Sciences)

Education: 1977-1982 - master's degree (medical electronics), Kaunas University of Technology

Scientific Degrees: 1992 - Ph.D. (biophysics), 2006 - habilitation procedure in biophysics (LUHS).

Professional Experience: 1992-1997 - Research Associate (Institute for Biomedical Research, LUHS); 1997-2003 - senior scientist (Institute for Biomedical Research, LUHS); 2003-2006 - Senior scientist (Institute of Cardiology, LUHS); since 2006 - chief scientist and head of the Laboratory of Cell Culture (Institute of Cardiology, LUHS).

Research Interests: intercellular communication; stem cell therapy; tissue engineering; cancer cell biology.

Research Training: Postdoctoral fellow at the Faculty of Pharmacy, XIth University of Paris (France) (1995-1997); visiting scientist at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Yeshiva University (New York, USA) (1999-2001).

Academic/Teaching Experience:Reserach supervisor of the doctoral, master and bachelor students. Since 2010 part time professor at the Institute of Physiology and Pharmacology, LUHS.

Affiliations/Memberships: board member of Lithuanian Biophysical Society; member of Lithuanian Biochemical Society; member of Lithuanian Society of Physiology; Member of the Council of Lithuanian Science, Inovations and Technologies Agency; Member of the Council of Lithuanian Technological Platform "Nanomedicine"; expert of the Research Council of Lithuania.

Honours and Awards: 2008 - Lithuanian Science Prize.

Publications: 27 articles in Thomson Reuters-rated journals.