Conference Organizing Committee
M.-Teresa Aguado, M.D.
Acting Director, Vaccine Development
Department of Vaccines and Other Biologicals
World Heath Organziation
Geneva, Switzerland
John M. Clymer
Director of External Affairs
Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute
New Canaan, Connecticut
William J. Martone, M.D.
Conference Co-Chair
Pamela M. McInnes, D.D.S.
Deputy Director, Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
Peter L. Nara, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Conference Co-Chair
N. Regina Rabinovich, M.D.
Conference Co-Chair
David E. Swayne, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Director, Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory
Agricultural Research Service
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Athens, Georgia
Bruce G. Weniger, M.D.
Conference Co-Chair
Kathryn C. Zoon, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Rockville, Maryland
Scientific Program Committee
Jacques Banchereau, Ph.D.
Director
Max and Gayle Clampitt Chair for Immunology Research
Baylor Institute for Immunology Research
Dallas, Texas
Michel De Wilde, Ph.D.
Deputy Executive Vice President
Research and Development
Aventis Pasteur
Swiftwater, Pennsylvania
Richard J. Duma, M.D., Ph.D.
Director of Infectious Diseases
Halifax Medical Center
Daytona Beach, Florida
Colonel Charles H. Hoke, Jr., M.D., M.C.
Manager, Military Infectious Disease Research Program
U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command
Fort Detrick, Maryland
Diane E. Griffin, M.D., Ph.D.
Professor and Chair
Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology
The Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health
Baltimore, Maryland
Paul-Henri Lambert, M.D.
Professor, Centre of Vaccinology
Centre Medical Universitaire de Genéve
Geneva, Switzerland
Myron M. Levine, M.D., D.T.P.H.
Professor and Director, Center for Vaccine Development
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Brian W. J. Mahy, Ph.D., Sc.D.
Senior Scientist, Office of the Director
National Center for Infectious Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, Georgia
William J. Martone, M.D.
Conference Co-Chair
Gary J. Nabel, M.D., Ph.D.
Director
Dale and Betty Bumpers Vaccine Research Center
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
Peter L. Nara, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Conference Co-Chair
Gregory A. Poland, M.D.
President
International Society for Vaccines and
Associate Director for Research
Mayo Clinic and Foundation
Rochester, Minnesota
N. Regina Rabinovich, M.D.
Conference Co-Chair
Harriet L. Robinson, Ph.D.
Asa Griggs Candler Professor
Chief, Division of Microbiology and Immunology
Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia
Ethan M. Shevach, M.D.
Chief, Cellular Immunology Section
Laboratory of Immunology
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
David E. Swayne, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Member, Conference Organizing Committee
Bruce G. Weniger, M.D.
Conference Co-Chair
Kathryn C. Zoon, Ph.D.
Member, Conference Organizing Committee
Invited Presenters*
Carl R. Alving, M.D.
Chief, Department of Membrane Chemistry
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Silver Spring, Maryland
Lieutenant Colonel Gerry P. Andrews, Ph.D.
Chief, Bacteriology Division
U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
Frederick, Maryland
David M. Asher, M.D.
Chief, Laboratory of Bacterial, Parasitic, and Unconventional Agents
Office of Blood Research and Review
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Rockville, Maryland
Jacques Banchereau, Ph.D.
Member, Scientific Program Committee
Kathryn M. Carbone, M.D.
Chief, Laboratory of Pediatric and Respiratory Viral Diseases
Office of Vaccines Research and Review
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Rockville, Maryland
William M. Egan, Ph.D.
Deputy Director
Office of Vaccines Research and Review
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Rockville, Maryland
Colonel Arthur M. Friedlander, M.D.
Science Advisor
U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
Frederick, Maryland
Robert S. Fujinami, Ph.D.
Professor of Neurology
University of Utah School of Medicine
Salt Lake City, Utah
Christine Grady, R.N., Ph.D.
Acting Director
Department of Clinical Bioethics
Magnuson Clinical Center
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
Seyed E. Hasnain, Ph.D.
Director
Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics
Hyderabad, India
Colonel David L. Hoover, M.D.
Scientific Coordinator, Brucella Program
Department of Bacterial Diseases
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
Silver Spring, Maryland
Gerald T. Keusch, M.D.
Director, Fogarty International Center
Associate Director for International Research
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
Philip R. Krause, M.D.
Lead Research Investigator
Division of Viral Products
Office of Vaccines Research and Review
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Rockville, Maryland
F. Marc LaForce, M.D.
Project Director
Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival (BASICS II)
Arlington, Virginia
Paul-Henri Lambert, M.D.
Member, Scientific Program Committee
James W. LeDuc, Ph.D.
Acting Director, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases
National Center for Infectious Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, Georgia
Joseph B. McCormick, M.D.
Director, Corporate Epidemiology Platform
Aventis Pasteur
Lyon, France
Andrew J. McMichael, Ph.D.
Director, Institute of Molecular Medicine
John Radcliffe Hospital
University of Oxford
Oxford, United Kingdom
Harry M. Meade, Ph.D.
Vice President, Transgenics Research
Genzyme Transgenics
Framingham, Massachusetts
Julie Parsonnet, M.D.
Associate Professor and Chief Division of Infectious Diseases and Geographic Medicine
Department of Medicine
Stanford University School of Medicine
Stanford, California
Bradley A. Perkins, M.D.
Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases
National Center for Infectious Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, Georgia
Stanley A. Plotkin, M.D.
Medical and Scientific Advisor
Aventis Pasteur
Emeritus Professor of Pediatrics
University of Pennsylvania
Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Gregory A. Poland, M.D.
Member, Scientific Program Committee
N. Regina Rabinovich, M.D.
Conference Co-Chair
Rino Rappuoli, Ph.D.
Vice President for Vaccine Research
Istituto Richerche Immunobiologiche Siena (IRIS)
Chiron Vaccines
Siena, Italy
David M. Salisbury, M.B.
Principal Medical Officer
Department of Health
London, United Kingdom
Ethan M. Shevach, M.D.
Member, Scientific Program Committee
Carol O. Tacket, M.D.
Chief, Adult Clinical Studies Section
Center for Vaccine Development
Professor of Medicine
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Baltimore, Maryland
Richard J. Whitley, M.D.
Loeb Eminent Scholar Chair in Pediatrics
Professor of Pediatrics, Microbiology and Medicine
Department of Pediatrics, Division of Infectious Diseases
University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine
Birmingham, Alabama
David C. Wraith, Ph.D.
Professor of Experimental Pathology
Department of Pathology and Microbiology
University of Bristol
Bristol, United Kingdom
*Speakers and presentations subject to change