The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) is collaborating with an expanded group of health organizations to sponsor the Second Annual Conference on Vaccine Research: Basic Science - Product Development - Clinical and Field Studies. The conference, to be held March 28 - March 30, 1999, at the Hyatt Regency Bethesda in Bethesda, MD, will be jointly sponsored by NFID, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), the International Society for Vaccines (ISV), the Albert Sabin Vaccine Institute, the Children's Vaccine Initiative (CVI), and the Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research of the United States Food and Drug Administration (FDA).

The conference is specifically designed to bring together the diverse disciplines involved in the research and development of vaccines. Expert faculty from various disciplines will present the latest vaccine-related scientific data, results, and issues via symposia, panel discussions, oral presentations, and poster presentations. Symposia and roundtable discussions will focus on the following topics:

• Vaccines for Major World Diseases: AIDS, Malaria, Tuberculosis
• Therapeutic Vaccines
• Genetic Determinants of Vaccine Immune Response
• Vaccines Against Candidate Bioterrorist Agents
• Clinical Trials in Developing Countries: What Are the Issues?
• Antigen Processing and Presentation

The conference was developed for researchers, scientists, epidemiologists, microbiologists, immunologists, molecular biologists, physicians and veterinarians, vaccine manufacturers, and public health officials who have an interest in vaccine research.