Notice to Readers: Tenth Annual Conference on Vaccine Research

CDC and 11 other national and international agencies and organizations will collaborate with the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases to sponsor the Tenth Annual Conference on Vaccine Research: Basic Science, Product Development, and Clinical and Field Studies, to be held April 30--May 2, 2007, at the Marriott Waterfront Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland. The conference has become the largest forum devoted exclusively to the research and development of vaccines and related technologies for the prevention and treatment of disease through immunization, bringing together human and veterinary vaccinology researchers.

Eighteen speakers will participate in various symposia on immune memory, maternal immunization to protect newborns, vaccination of persons who are immunocompromised, host factors, influenza, animal model hosts, and vaccine-development constructs and topics. Two poster and six oral sessions will feature presentations selected through peer review of submitted abstracts.

The deadline for online submission of abstracts is February 2, 2007. Information about the preliminary program, abstract submission, registration, hotel accommodation, and exhibition space is available at http://www.nfid.org/conferences/vaccine07 and by e-mail (vaccine@nfid.org), fax (301-907-0878), telephone (301-656-0003, ext. 19), and mail (National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, 4733 Bethesda Avenue, Suite 750, Bethesda, MD 20814).

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Date last reviewed: 1/4/2007