The 4th Vaccine Renaissance Conference

October 21-23, 2010 (Thursday-Saturday)

The 4th Vaccine Renaissance is dedicated to creating a dynamic interchange, by bridging disciplines (immunoinformatics, vaccine delivery, clinical vaccine trials and basic research) while offering multiple opportunities for contact between academic researchers and members of the vaccine R&D biotech industry.

Speakers will describe new approaches to developing vaccines for today’s most significant infectious disease threats such as influenza, neglected tropical diseases, multidrug resistant tuberculosis, and HIV.

2010 Workshop

  • The Smallpox vaccine platform: New approaches to an old concept
  • Therapeutic HPV Vaccine – Clinical Trial Update
  • Good News and Promise for the Future:The Status of HIV Vaccine Research
  • Cancer Vaccines: the Next Frontier. Prophylactic Breast Cancer Vaccination
  • VLP’s for Better Vaccine Delivery

Speakers: 

  • Mark Buller, Ph.D. Saint Louis University 
  • Alan Cross, M.D. Professor of Medicine-The University of Maryland 
  • Les Dupuy, Ph.D. USAMRIID 
  • Ted Ross, Ph.D. Center for Vaccine Research-The University of Pittsburg 
  • Bolyn Hubby, Ph.D. Executive Director- Vaccines Liquidia Technologies, Inc.
  • Niranjan Sardesai, Ph.D. Sr. Vice President, Research & Development-Inovio Pharmaceuticals
  • Christine Shaw - Novartis
  • Manon Cox, MBA. Chief Operating Officer-Protein Sciences Corporation
  • Mike Brehm, Ph.D. U.Mass Medical
  • David Weiner, Ph.D.Chair-Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Pennsylvania
  • Vincent Tuohy, Ph.D. Professor-Lerner College of Medicine Staff-Cleveland Clinic Lerner Research Institute
  • Katherine Kripke, Ph.D. Assistant Director-Vaccine Research Program Division of AIDS National Institute of Health

Day 1

University of Rhode Island
Downtown Providence Campus
Alan Shawn Feinstein College of Continuing Education
80 Washington Street
Providence, Rhode Island 02903-1803

Day 2-3 

Hotel Providence
139 Mathewson Street
Providence, RI 02903

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