The 3rd Vaccine Renaissance Conference

October 27-29, 2009 (Tuesday-Thursday)

The 3rd 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.

Workshop highlights

  • New vaccines for H1N1 flu
  • Advances in Neglected Tropical Diseases (NTD)
  • Cutting edge vaccine delivery techniques
  • Vaccine design workshop (iVAX)
  • Hands-on demonstrations of ELISpot and FACS technologies

Among the Confirmed Speakers:

  • MARIA ELENA BOTTAZZI, PhD Associate Professor, The George Washington University
  • RICK BRIGHT, PhD Scientific Director, Influenza Vaccine Project, PATH
  • CHARLES DELISI, PhD Founding Chair, Bioinformatics & Systems Biology, Boston University
  • PENELOPE DENNEHY, MD Director, Pediatric Infectious Diseases at Hasbro Children's Hospital
  • CHRISTIAN MANDL, MD Global Head of Virology, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics
  • CONNIE SCHMALJOHN, PhD Chief Scientist, MEDCOM USAMRIID, Department of Defense
  • DAVID SACKS, PhD Laboratory of Parasitic Disease of the National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Where is this taking place?

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

Please forward this link to persons who would benefit from this workshop. Thank you.