Talks Included:

• Effect of oil adjuvants on integrity of foot-and-mouth disease virus vaccine antigens:  

Dr. Michiel M. Harmsen, Scientist, Central Veterinary Institute Wageningen UR, Division Virology, Lelystad, The Netherlands

• Therapuetic use of vaccine for treatment of chronic hepatitis B: from bench to bedside:  

Dr. Sheikh Mohamad Fazle Akbar, MBBS, MD, PhD, Principal Investigator, Toshiba General Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

• Approaches for inducing an immune response against tumor antigens:  

Dr Jonathan Lewis, Boston, United States

• Integration of biology and mathematical modelling towards a better understanding of pathogen behaviour and rational design of improved bacterial vaccines:

Dr Piero Mastroeni, Reader in Infection and Immunity, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom

• Oncolytic activity of attenuated Measles virus against mesothelioma:

 Dr Jean-François FONTENEAU, Chargé de recherche INSERM, INSERM UMR892, CNRS UMR6299, Institut de Recherche en Santé de l’Université de Nantes, France

• Oral vaccines for the control of poultry diseases:  

Professor Anthony Amaechi ATTAMA, Department of Pharmaceutics, University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Nigeria

• Investigation of antibodies generated in response to vaccination with a HCMV gB subunit vaccine:  

Dr Gary R McLean, Imperial College London & London Metropolitan University, London, UK

• Why do parents who usually vaccinate their children hesitate or refuse General good vs. individual risk:  

Dr Anat Gesser-Edelsburg, Head of Health Promotion Department, School of Public Health, University of Haifa, Israel

• HIV-1 Vaccines: The Yin and Yang of Viral Entry Where We Keep Getting It Wrong:  

Dr Cynthia L. Bristow, Chief Executive Officer, Alpha-1 Biologics, New York, USA

• Plant-derived vaccines:  

Dr Athleen Hefferon, University of Toronto, Ont., Canada

• Patient Safety: Using technology to select the  right vaccine, right person, right schedule: 

Dr Adrienne Willcox, Health Team Ltd., Glos, UK

• Russian vaccines against especially dangerous bacterial pathogens:  

Dr Valentina A Feodorova, Saratov, Russia

• Overview of assays for influenza vaccines immunology evaluation and correlates of protection:  

Professor Emanuele Montomoli, Dept. of Molecular and Developmental Medicine, University of Siena, Italy

• Evolutionary Therapy: Immunotherapy As Personalized Medicine:  

Dr Ravi A. Madan, Clinical Director, Genitourinary Malignancies Branch, Center for Cancer Research, NCI, NIH, USA

• Factors Influencing the Recommendation of the Human Papillomavirus Vaccine by South African Doctors:  

Dr Muhammad Hoque, University of KwaZulu-Natal (Westville Campus), Durban, South Africa

• Realising the Potential of Viral Vectored Vaccines:  

Dr. Sarah Gilbert, University of Oxford, Jenner Insitute, Oxford, United Kingdom

• Sublingual vaccination and vaccine delivery systems:  

Jaroslav Turánek, Head of Department of Immunology and Immunotherapy, Veterinary Research Institute, Czech Republic

• State of the art of VLP-based vaccines against influenza virus- commercial and scientific approach:

Dr Beata Gromadzka. Department of Recombinant Vaccines, Intercollegiate Faculty of Biotechnology, University of Gdansk, Medical University of Gdansk, Poland

• Development of a Lentivirus-Based Reference Material for Zaire Ebola Virus Nucleic Acid Amplification Assays.

Dr. Giada Mattiuzzo, NIBSC, Potters Bar, UK

• Reference materials and standards for serological assays in vaccine evaluation

Dr Mark Page, NIBSC, Potters Bar, UK

• Designing new vaccines to safeguard global poliovirus eradication:

Dr Andrew Macadam, NIBSC, Herts, United Kingdom

• Clostridium difficile Vaccine- C diffense Study:

Dr Amit Arora, Consultant physician and Geriatrician, University Hospital of North Midlands, Stoke on Trent, United Kingdom

• Aβ immunotherapy with single chain variable fragments for Alzheimer’s disease:

Dr Sandra Villegas, Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona (UAB), Barcelona, Spain

• New data for Vaccination for Pneumococcus

Assistant Professor Paraskevi A. Katsaounou, Medical School University of Athens, Evangelismos Hospital, Athens, Greece

                 

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