Programme

Thursday, September 08, 2022

12:30-13:30 Arrivals and lunch
13:40-14:00 Introduction

Session 1. Vaccines: past, present and future

14:00-14:30 Rino Rappuoli    Vaccines 2030 and beyond
14:30-15:00 Philippe Sansonetti  Health equity for the poorest kids: from Shigella
                  vaccination to stunting and the microbiome
15:00-15:30    Marie-Paule Kieny       Covid vaccines: from the R&D race to mass                                                                    vaccination
15:30-16:00    Hayato Urabe                Public-Private Partnership: a funding model to                                                                    foster biomedical innovation

16:00-16:30           Coffee break

Session 2. Learning from noninfectious disease settings to develop better vaccines

16:30-17:00    Nick Valiante               Aberrant cell-surface glycans as targets for cancer                                                                   therapies
17:00-17:30   Gennaro Ciliberto       Precision medicine vaccines, immune checkpoint                                                                   modifiers and microbiota: a complex but                                                                   efficacious synergy
17:30-18:00    Roger Perlmutter       Explicit Measurement of Protein Motion in Living                                                                   Cells Permits Invention of Novel Therapeutics
18:00-18:30    Dennis Kasper             Microbiome induced synthesis of gut complement
                                  protects against enteric infection

20:00                       Gala Dinner

Friday, September 09, 2022

Session 1. Innovative tool to study immune responses to enhance vaccine efficacy

08:45-09:15    Antonio Lanzavecchia    Dissecting the human immune response: useful,                                                                        basic and surprising findings
09:15-09:45    Federica Sallusto             T cell activation, differentiantion and immune                                                                        regulation
09:45-10:15    Emanuele Montomoli     Correlates of protection induced by vaccines
10:15-10:45    Androulla Efstratiou       The DEVANI Project: Design of a vaccine to                                                                        immunize neonates against GBS infections                                                                        through a durable maternal immune response

10:45-11:15            Coffee break

Session 2. New approaches to vaccine design for unmet infectious diseases

11:15-12:15    Mogens Kilian                  Phylogenetic key to the properties that
                                     make Streptococcus pneumoniae a pathogen
12:15-12:45    Christiane Gerke             Institute Pasteur’s divers portfolio of vaccine                                                                       candidates against poverty-related infectious                                                                       diseases – with focus on shigellosis and Lassa                                                                       fever
12:45-13:15    Isabel Delany                   Vaccines and bacterial pathogenesis
13:15-13:45    Maria Grazia Pizza          From antigen identification to protein structure                                                                       and rational-based design
13:45-14:00            Conclusions

14:00                        Lunch

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