First Circular and Call for Participation for VED 2009

Announcing the 5th International Conference on

Vaccines for Enteric Diseases
9-11 September 2009, The Torrequebrada Hotel, Benalmadina, Malaga, Spain

Scientific Advisory Panel

Conference Chair:
Duncan Steele (PATH, Seattle, Washington, USA)

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)
Eszter Nagy (Intercell AG, Vienna, Austria)
Kevin Killeen (Matrivax Corporation, Boston, USA)
Ann-Mari Svennerholm (Göteborg University, Sweden)
Margaret E. Conner (Baylor College of Medicine, USA)
Linda J. Saif (Ohio State University, USA)
Roger I. Glass (Fogarty Center, NIH, Bethesda, USA)
Harry B. Greenberg (Stanford University, USA)
Lennart Svensson (University of Linköping, Sweden)
Claire-Lise Chaignat (WHO, Switzerland)
Beatrice de Vos (Sanofi Pasteur, Lyon, France)
Umesh Parashar (CDC, Atlanta, USA)
Sims Kochi (AVANT Immunotherapeutics, USA)
Albert Z. Kapikian (NIAID/NIH, Bethesda, Maryland, USA)
Greg Glenn (Intercell USA, Maryland, USA)

Scope

Following the successful VED meetings in Tampere, Finland in 2001, Jamaica in 2004 and Lisbon in 2007, the follow-up conference Vaccines For Enteric Diseases (VED 2009), 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 2009 will focus on:

• Epidemiology
• Virology
• Microbiology
• Immunology
• Mechanisms of Pathophysiology
• Immune Responses to Enteric Pathogens
• New Vaccine Vectors
• Enteric Vaccine Adjuvants
• Animal Models Studies
• Animal Disease
• Vaccine Delivery Systems
• Enteric Vaccine Field Testing
• Salmonella Typhi and Live Vectors
• Shigella
• Cholera
• Escherchia Coli (enterotoxigenic)
• Rotavirus (Rotarix® vaccine and RotaTeq® vaccine)
• Live versus Killed Vaccines
• Etec
• Campylobacter
• Heliobacter Pylori
• Chlostridium Difficile
• Entamoeba Histolytica
• Protazoa
• Viral Vaccines (Human Caliciviruses, Rotavirus, Norwalk-like viruses, Coronaviruses, Adenovirus, Astrovirus)
• Mucosal Immunization
• DNA Vaccines
• Edible Plant Vaccines
• Transcutaneous Vaccines
• Food Safety Vaccines
• Vaccine Production Issues
• Enteric Vaccine Construction and Design
• DNA Delivery of Transgenes by Enteric Vaccines
• Problems with and usage of enteric vaccines in developing countries
• Specific treatments against acute diarrhea
• New Developments and Initiatives with enteric vaccines

VED 2009 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 oral abstract submissions Friday 27th March 2009
(poster abstract submissions Friday 28th August 2009)

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