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 at Georgetown University
Washington, D.C.
William J. Martone, M.D.
Conference Co-Chair
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
Baylor Institute for Immunology Research
Dallas, Texas
Robert F. Breiman, M.D.
Director, National Vaccine Program Office
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, Georgia
Michel De Wilde, Ph.D.
Deputy Executive Vice President, Research & Development
Pasteur Mérieux Connaught
Brussels, Belgium
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.
Director, 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
Baltimore, Maryland
Brian W.J. Mahy, Ph.D., Sc.D.
Director, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases
National Center for Infectious Diseases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Atlanta, Georgia
William J. Martone, M.D.
Conference Co-Chair
Peter L. Nara, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Conference Co-Chair
Gregory A. Poland, M.D.
Associate Director for Research
Mayo Clinic and Foundation
Rochester, Minnesota
N. Regina Rabinovich, M.D.
Conference Co-Chair
Ethan M. Shevach, M.D.
Head, Cellular Immunology Section
Laboratory of Immunology
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
Howard R. Six, M.D.
Vice President, Research & Development
Pasteur Mérieux Connaught
Swiftwater, Pennsylvania
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*
Bruce Aylward, M.D.
Coordinator, Polio Eradication Initiative
Department of Vaccines and Other Biologicals
World Health Organization
Geneva, Switzerland
Amie E. Batson, M.B.A.
Health Specialist, Human Development Network
The World Bank
Washington, D.C.
Robert F. Breiman, M.D.
Member, Scientific Program Committee
Lawrence Corey, M.D.
Professor of Medicine and Laboratory Medicine
Head, Virology Department
University of Washington School of Medicine
Head, Program in Infectious Diseases
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Seattle, Washington
Ciro de Quadros, M.D.
Director, Division of Vaccines and Immunization
Pan American Health Organization
Washington, D.C.
Michel De Wilde, Ph.D.
Member, Scientific Program Committee
William M. Egan, Ph.D.
Director, Office of Vaccines Research and Review
Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Rockville, Maryland
R. Alan B. Ezekowitz, D.Phil., M.B.Ch.B.
Chief, Pediatric Service
Head, Laboratory of Developmental Immunology
Charles Wilder Professor of Pediatrics
Harvard Medical School
Boston, Massachusetts
William H. Foege, M.D.
Presidential Distinguished Professor
Department of International Health
Rollins School of Public Health
Emory University
Atlanta, Georgia
David Goldblatt, M.B.Ch.B., Ph.D.
Senior Lecturer, Immunobiology Unit
Institute of Child Health
Consultant Paediatric Immunologist
Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children
NHS Trust
London, United Kingdom
Michael Gottlieb, Ph.D.
Program Officer
Parasitology and International Programs Branch
Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
Beatrix Grubeck-Loebenstein, M.D.
Professor and Head, Division of Immunology
Institute for Biomedical Aging Research
Austrian Academy of Sciences
Innsbruck, Austria
Stephen Hoffman, M.D.
Director, Malaria Program
Naval Medical Research Center
Rockville, Maryland
Stephen A. Johnston, Ph.D.
Director, Center for Biomedical Inventions
Professor of Internal Medicine and Biochemistry
University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center
Dallas, Texas
Garnett H. Kelsoe, D.Sc.
Professor of Immunology
Director, Graduate Studies in Immunology
Duke University Medical Center
Durham, North Carolina
Jerry R. McGhee, Ph.D.
Professor, Department of Microbiology
Director, The Immunibiology Vaccine Center
University of Alabama at Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama
Brian Murphy, M.D.
Head, Respiratory Viruses Section
Laboratory of 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
Kristin L. Nichol, M.D.
Chief of Medicine
Minneapolis VA Medical Center
Professor and Vice Chair of Medicine
University of Minnesota Medical School
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Sir Gustav Nossal
Professor Emeritus, Department of Pathology
University of Melbourne
Parkville, Australia
John Petricciani, M.D.
Vice President
International Association for Biological Standardization
Palm Springs, California
John B. Robbins, M.D.
Chief, Laboratory of Developmental and Molecular Immunity
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
Fran A. Rubin, Ph.D.
Program Officer
Respiratory Diseases Branch
Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
John T. Schiller, Ph.D.
Principal Investigator, Laboratory of Cellular Immunology
Division of Basic Sciences
National Cancer Institute
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
Claire-Anne Siegrist, M.D., P.D.
Professor of Vaccinology and
Head, WHO Collaborating Centre
for Vaccinology and Neonatal Immunology
Centre Médical Universitaire de Genève
Geneva, Switzerland
Richard S. Stephens, Ph.D.
Professor of Molecular Microbiology
Division of Public Health Biology and Epidemiology
School of Public Health
University of California, Berkeley
Berkeley, California
Joel I. Ward, M.D.
Director
UCLA Center for Vaccine Research
Chief, Division of Infectious Diseases
Department of Pediatrics
Harbor-UCLA Medical Center
Torrance, California
*Speakers and presentations subject to change