The conference will explore and discuss various aspects of the non-specific effects ofvaccines, including their impact on neonates and infants, how generalisable and durablethese effects are, the implications for geriatric and veterinary medicine, and why non-specific effectsshould differ between sexes and across the lifespan.
Deadlines
- Early bird: 26 November 2019
- Bursaries: 10 December 2019
- Abstracts: 17 December 2019
- Registration: 21 January 2020
Key Topics
- Importance of non-specific effects of vaccines
- Evidence from clinical trials
- Effects of vaccines on the epigenome
- Sex differences in immunity and response tovaccines
- Potential off-target use of vaccines
- Vaccination of the elderly
- New vaccines/testing products in pipeline
Scientific Programme Committee
- Eleanor Fish – University of Toronto,
- CanadaRebecca Chandler – Uppsala Monitoring Centre, Sweden
- Nigel Curtis -The University of Melbourne and Murdoch Children’s Research Hospital, Australia
- Sabra Klein – Johns Hopkins University, USA
- Christine Stabell-Benn – University of Southern
Keynote Speaker
Mihai Netea – Radboud University, The Netherlands
Confirmed Speakers
- Peter Aaby – Bandim Health Project, Guinea-Bissau
- Petra Arck – Medical Centre Hamburg-Eppendorf, Germany
- Nigel Curtis – University of Melbourne, Australia
- Rebecca Chandler – Uppsala Monitoring Center, Sweden
- Hazel Dockrell – LSHTM, UK
- Denise Faustman – Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
- Adam Finn – University of Bristol, UK
- Katie Flanagan – Monash University, Australia
- Sabra Klein – Johns Hopkins University, USA
- Darryn Knobel – Ross University School of Veterinary Medicine, West Indies
- Ofer Levy – Boston Children’s Hospital, USA
- Camille Locht – Institut Pasteur, France
- Magdalena Plebanski – RMIT, Australia
- Marjorie Robert-Guroff – National Cancer Institute, USA
- Patrick Wilson – University of Chicago, USA