TB Vaccine symposium Zaragoza, 3-4 June 2010
TBVI, together with the University of Zaragoza and the Fundacion Ramon Areces organized an internationl symposium 'Research and development of new tuberculosis vaccines' in Zaragoza, Spain, on June 3 and 4, 2010. Here is an overview of symposium material and news releases.
Abstract book of the symposium
'European researchers in search for new vaccine tuberculosis' (press release TBVI, 8 June 2010)
'Europa ya cuenta con seis candidatos pare una nueva vacune...' (press release University of Zaragoza, 3 June 2010)
Presentations:
'European initiative to develop TB vaccines for the world' Jelle Thole, director TBVI (text version)
'Clinical evaluation of subunit H1 vaccine' Tom Ottenhoff, Leiden University Medical Center
'Searching for novel TB vaccine paradigms' (summary) Douglas Young, Imperial College London
'Tuberculosis: a global perspective' Giuliano Gargioni, Stop TB Partnership, Geneva
'Development of a new attenuated vaccine: from preclinical to clinical evaluation' Carlos Martin, University of Zaragoza
'Latent tuberculosis infection: the great challenge! New thereapeutic approaches from the bench to the clinics, the case of the therepeutical vaccine RUTI' Pere Joan Cardona, Fundacio Institut Germans Trias i Pujol, Badalona, Spain
'Essential safety issues for new TB vaccines' Paul-Henri Lambert, University of Geneva
'New tools for TB control and epidemiology in Europe' Emma Huitric, European Centre of Disease Control (ECDC)
'The improved BCG vaccine: From mouse to man' part 1 and part 2 Stefan Kaufmann, Max-Planck-Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin
In the media:
Further research into field of new tuberculosis (TB) vaccines needed (Citizen News Service (CNS), June 3 2010).
Symposium shows progress in TB vaccines (Citizen News Service (CNS), June 8 2010)
Fighting TB in Asia: Public and private health sector should partner up (Citizen News Service, June 15 2010)
Europa desarrolla seis nuevas vacunas contra la tuberculosis (La voz de Galicia, June 3, 2010)
Optimismo tras el seminario sobre tuberculosis en Zaragoza (Diario del Alto Aragon, June 5 2010)