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Second Circular and Provisional Conference Program

The 4th International Conference on

Vaccines for Enteric Diseases
25-27 April 2007, Pestana Palace Hotel, Lisbon, Portugal

Scientific Advisory Panel

Timo Vesikari (University of Tampere, Finland)
Philippe J. Sansonetti (Institut Pasteur, France)
John D. Clements (Tulane University, USA)
Carol O. Tacket (University of Maryland, USA)
Mary Estes (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
Myron M. Levine (University of Maryland, USA)
John D. Clemens (International Vaccine Institute, Korea)
Alex von Gabain (Intercell AG, Vienna, Austria)
Kevin Killeen (AVANT Immunotherapeutics, USA)
Ann-Mari Svennerholm (Göteborg University, Sweden)
Margaret E. Conner (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
Linda J. Saif (Ohio State University, USA)
Umesh Parashar (Centers For Disease Control, Atlanta, USA)
Harry B. Greenberg (Stanford University, USA)
Lennart Svensson (University of Linköping, Sweden)
Achim Kaufold (Novartis, Switzerland)
Claire-Lise Chaignat (WHO, Switzerland)
Duncan Steele (WHO, Switzerland)
Roger I. Glass (NIH, USA)
Beatrice de Vos (GSK Biological, Rixensart, Belgium)
John Herrman (Tufts University, Massachusetts, USA)

Scope

Following the successful VED meetings in Tampere, Finland in 2001 and Jamaica in 2004, the follow-up conference Vaccines For Enteric Diseases (VED 2007), will address the diverse aspects of vaccines to counter human enteric diseases. With regard to global public health issues, enteric diseases probably represent the first cause of infectious morbidity and second cause of infectious mortality worldwide. The added complications surrounding the increasing resistance to bacterial enteric pathogens to antibiotics are creating a worldwide trend that will require enhanced enteric vaccine strategies. Taking into consideration the major difficulties faced in drastically improving the sanitary conditions in large areas of the developing world which accounts for more than 95% of enteric infections, enteric vaccine strategies may become the prime preventative approach. Enteric infections also present problems in the industrialized world where the food chain continues to be compromised by enteric pathogens.

VED 2007 will be a major opportunity to:

• Re-evaluate the diarrheal disease burden both in the industrialized and developing worlds
• Discuss which diseases, depending on the area, would require an immunization strategy and if eradication or control of the selected disease is achievable by a vaccine
• Discuss the state-of-the-art vaccine candidates currently available
• Discuss obstacles to obtaining institutional and industrial support for these vaccines
• Review of studies in developing countries
• Air views on the lack of facilities for enteric vaccine trials
• Discuss the distribution of vaccines and implementation policy in the developing world
  
  

Closing date for poster abstract submissions Friday 16th March 2007

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