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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

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International Society for Vaccines

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United States Department of Agriculture

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Albert B. Sabin Vaccine Institute

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The Fourth Annual Conference on Vaccine Research: Schedule

Sunday, April 22, 2001

7:00 - 9:00 p.m. Registration

Monday, April 23, 2001

7:00 - 9:00 a.m.Registration
8:30 a.m.Continental Breakfast
9:00 a.m.Welcome and Introductions
Keynote Address
9:10 a.m.Top Ten Advances in Vaccinology in the Past Ten Years Stanley A. Plotkin, M.D.
Aventis Pasteur
University of Pennsylvania
9:45 a.m.Questions and Answers
Mary Lou Clements-Mann Memorial Lecture in Vaccine Sciences
9:50 a.m.HIV Vaccine Progress Andrew J. McMichael, Ph.D.
University of Oxford
10:25 a.m.Questions and Answers
10:30 a.m.Coffee Break
Symposium 1: Ethical Aspects of Vaccinology
11:00 a.m.Lessons from the Rotavirus Vaccine: An Overview of the Issues
F. Marc LaForce, M.D.
Basic Support for Institutionalizing Child Survival (BASICS II)
11:20 a.m.Questions and Answers
11:25 a.m.Lessons from the Rotavirus Vaccine: Ethical Considerations
Christine Grady, R.N., Ph.D.
National Institutes of Health
11:45 a.m.Questions and Answers
11:25 a.m.Ethical Issues in Conducting Clinical Trials in Endemic Areas
Gerald T. Keusch, M.D.
National Institutes of Health
12:10 p.m.Questions and Answers
12:15 p.m.Lunch
Submitted Presentations
1:45 p.m.Submitted Presentations 1
3:15 p.m.Coffee Break
Symposium 2: Vaccination, Auto-Immunity and Auto-Immune Diseases
3:45 p.m.The Significance of Immunological Mimicry for the Development of New Vaccination Strategies
Robert S. Fujinami, Ph.D.
University of Utah School of Medicine
4:10 p.m.Questions and Answers
4:15 p.m.Integrated Approaches to Assess and Limit the Risk of Auto-Immune Adverse Effects
Paul-Henri Lambert, M.D.
University of Geneva
5:10 p.m.Questions and Answers
5:15 p.m.Potential Vaccination Approaches to Prevent or Treat Auto-Immune Diseases
David C. Wraith, Ph.D.
University of Bristol
5:40 p.m.Questions and Answers
5:45 p.m.Adjournment
6:30 p.m.Opening Reception
7:30 p.m.Presentation of the Albert B. Sabin Gold Medal

Tuesday, April 24, 2001
7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.Registration and Poster Set-Up
7:30 a.m.Continental Breakfast
Symposium 3: Vaccines Against Malignancies and Chronic Diseases
8:00 a.m.A Vaccine for Ulcers and Gastric Cancer: A Rationale for an H. pylori Vaccine
Julie Parsonnet, M.D.
Stanford University School of Medicine
8:25 a.m.Questions and Answers
8:30 a.m.Vaccines Against Atherosclerosis
Carl R. Alving, M.D.
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
8:55 a.m.Questions and Answers
9:00 a.m.Attenuated Herpes Simplex Virus Vaccine Strain Expressing IL-12 in the Therapy of Gliomas
Richard J. Whitley, M.D.
University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine
9:25 a.m.Questions and Answers
9:30 a.m.Update on Dendritic Cell Vaccines
Jacques Banchereau, Ph.D.
Baylor Institute for Immunology Research
9:55 a.m.Questions and Answers
10:00 a.m.Coffee Break
Submitted Presentations
10:30 a.m.Submitted Presentations
12:00 p.m.Lunch
Submitted Presentations
1:30 p.m.Submitted Presentations
3:00 p.m.Coffee Break
Symposium 4: Control of Meningococcal Disease by Vaccination
3:30 p.m.Global Epidemiology of Meningococcal Disease
Bradley A. Perkins, M.D.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
4:00 p.m.The United Kingdom Experience with Meningococcal Vaccine
David M. Salisbury, M.B.
Department of Health (United Kingdom)
4:30 p.m.Vaccine Candidates for Group B Neisseria Meningitidis
Rino Rappuoli, Ph.D.
Chiron Vaccines
5:00 p.m.Panel Discussion
Poster and Exhibit Reception
5:30 p.m.Poster and Exhibit Reception
7:30 p.m.Adjournment

Wednesday, April 25, 2001

7:00 a.m. - 8:00 a.m.Registration
7:30 a.m.Continential Breakfast
Symposium 5: New Approaches to Vaccine Developments
8:00 a.m.Introduction
N. Regina Rabinovich, M.D.
Malaria Vaccine Initiative at Program for Appropriate Technology and Health (PATH)
8:05 a.m.Use of Novel Mass Spectrometry Technology in Vaccine Development
Gregory A. Poland, M.D.
Mayo Clinic and Foundation
8:25 a.m.Questions and Answers
8:35 a.m.Use of Microchip Array and Gene Expression Technology in Vaccine Development
Seyed E. Hasnain, Ph.D.
Centre for DNA Fingerprinting and Diagnostics (India)
8:55 a.m.Questions and Answers
9:05 a.m.Use of Transgenic Animals for Vaccine Development
Harry M. Meade, Ph.D.
Genzyme Transgenics
9:25 a.m.Questions and Answers
9:35 a.m.Progress in the Use of Plants as Vaccine Production or Delivery Systems
Carol O. Tacket, M.D.
University of Maryland School of Medicine
Poster and Exhibit Session
10:05 a.m.Poster and Exhibit Session (with Coffee Break)
Submitted Presentations
11:00 a.m.Submitted Presentations
12:00 p.m.Lunch
1:30 p.m.Poster and Exhibit Tear-Down
Symposium 6: Vaccines for Bioterrorist Candidate Agents and Other Dangerous Exotic Diseases
1:30 p.m.Vaccines for Smallpox and Poxviruses
James W. LeDuc, Ph.D.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
1:50 p.m.Vaccines for Lassa and Ebola Infections
Joseph B. McCormick, M.D.
Aventis Pasteur
2:10 p.m.Progress on Vaccines for Brucellosis
Colonel David L. Hoover, M.D.
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research
2:30 p.m.Update on Vaccines Against Anthrax
Colonel Arthur M. Friedlander, M.D.
U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
2:50 p.m.Current Research into Vaccines Against Plague
Lieutenant Colonel Gerry P. Andrews, Ph.D.
U.S. Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases
3:10 p.m.Questions and Answers (Panel)
3:30 p.m.Coffee Break
Symposium 7: Issues in Vaccine Safety
3:50 p.m.Adventitious Agent Testion
Philip R. Krause, M.D.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
4:10 p.m.Update on Preservatives and Excipients
William M. Egan, Ph.D.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
4:30 p.m.Neurovirulence Testing
Kathryn M. Carbone, M.D.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
4:50 p.m.BSE-Implicated Components in the Preparation of Vaccines: An Update
David M. Asher, M.D.
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
5:10 p.m.Questionss and Answers (Panel)
5:25 p.m.Participant Evaluation
5:30 p.m.Adjournment

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