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Second Circular and Provisional Conference Program

A New International Conference

Vaccination, Infection & Autoimmunity: Myth & Reality – VIAMR 2005
26-28 October 2005, Beau-Rivage Palace Hotel, Lausanne, Switzerland

Advisory Scientific Panel

Yehuda Shoenfeld (Tel Aviv University, Israel) – Conference Chair

Noel Rose (Johns Hopkins University, USA)
Eli Gilboa (Duke University, USA)
Matthias von Herrath (LIAI, San Diego USA)
Nathan Karin (Rappaport Institute for Medical Sciences, Haifa, Israel)
Ruth Arnon (The Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel)
Alan Escher (Loma Linda University, USA)
Gil Mor (Yale University School of Medicine, USA)
Francis Andre (GSK Biologicals, Belgium)
Eric Gershwin (University of California, Davis, USA)
Pearay L. Ogra (Women & Children’s Hospital, Buffalo, NY, USA)

This new international conference, VIAMR 2005, will offer a forum for researchers to address and update two major topics of current significant interest:

VACCINE-INDUCED AUTOIMMUNITY
&
VACCINES TO PREVENT OR SUPPRESS AUTOIMMUNE DISEASES

VIAMR 2005 will be concerned with matters relating to immunization and the prevention and treatment of autoimmunity. VIAMR will be an important opportunity for scientists of diverse backgrounds to focus on these significant issues. The studies of vaccine-induced immunity could greatly benefit from research done with vaccines for autoimmune diseases where mechanisms of prevention and induction of autoimmunity are studied in relatively well-characterized animal model systems. Conversely, groups working on prophylactic vaccines for autoimmune diseases need to be more aware of the available data on vaccine-induced autoimmunity. VIAMR 2005 should also appeal to investigators who have an interest in other immune-mediated inflammatory disorders, as it is thought that successful approaches for prevention of autoimmunity will be applicable to many types of inflammatory diseases. There is a general awareness of the increasing incidence and prevalence of autoimmune diseases in the industrialized world, and VIAMR 2005 will present an important opportunity to discuss the fundamental and practical questions that need to be answered in this area.

Conference Scope/Topics

• Immunological Basis for Current Human and Veterinary Vaccines
• Regulatory ‘T’ Cells
• Vaccination & Autoimmunity Induction
• Infection & Autoimmunity
• Adjuvant Effects
• Molecular Mimicry
• Mosaic of Autoimmunity
• Approaches to Vaccine Development
• Autoimmune Mechanisms
• Vaccines to Control Autoimmune Diseases
• Vaccine-Induced Autoimmunity in Cancer & Infectious Diseases
• Tolerance & Autoimmunity in Cancer & Tumour Vaccination
• Self/Non-Self Discrimination (central & peripheral)
• Tolerance Pathaways & Breakage
• Regulatory Cells in Viral Infections
• ‘Hygiene Hypothesis’ – Childhood Vaccines Preventing Autoimmunity?
• Risk-Benefits of Childhood Vaccines
• Treg Induction by Vaccination to Prevent Autoimmunity
• Vaccination against the target autoimmune antigen

Closing date for poster abstract submissions Friday 7th October 2005