Vaccinology: Horizons Across Disease, Demography and Technology

Jun 04–07, 2025 | Marriott Marquis Washington, DC, Washington, DC, United States
Scientific Organizers: Rino Rappuoli, Kanta Subbarao, Laurence Zitvogel and Firdausi Qadri

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Jun 04–07, 2025 | Marriott Marquis Washington, DC, Washington, DC, United States
Scientific Organizers: Rino Rappuoli, Kanta Subbarao, Laurence Zitvogel and Firdausi Qadri

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Wednesday, June 4, 2025
Registration
11:00–4:30 PM
Thursday, June 5, 2025
Breakfast
7:30–8:30 AM
 Independence Salons FGH
Poster Setup
8:00–8:30 AM
 Independence Salon E
Poster Viewing
8:00–5:00 PM
 Independence Salon E
Welcome and Keynote Address
8:30–9:30 AM
 Independence Salon E
Peter J. Hotez, Baylor College of Medicine
Vaccines and Immunizations in a Time of Global Boiling, Megacities, and Antiscience
Learning the Molecular Immunology of mRNA Vaccines
9:30–11:45 AM
 Independence Salon E
Bali Pulendran, Stanford University School of Medicine
Comparative Responses to mRNA and Adjuvanted Vaccines
Ali H. Ellebedy, Washington University School of Medicine
B Cell Responses to mRNA Vaccination/Induction of New Epitopes
Rita Carsetti, Bambino Gesù Children Hospital
Early Immune Responses to Vaccination
Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
Coffee Break
10:00–10:20 AM
 Foyer
Lunch
11:45–12:45 PM
 Independence Salons FGH
Poster Session 1
12:00–2:30 PM
 Independence Salon E
Symposia Spotlight 1: Late-breaking research presentations selected from abstract submissions
2:30–4:30 PM
 Independence Salon E
Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
Coffee Available
4:30–5:00 PM
 Foyer
Vaccines, Emerging Reality in Cancer Therapy
5:00–7:00 PM
 Independence Salon E
Catherine J Wu, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute
DNA-Based Cancer Vaccines
Ira Mellman, Medici Therapeutics
Combining Checkpoints Inhibitor Immunotherapy and Personalized Vaccines
Laura K. Mackay, University of Melbourne
Talk Title to be Announced
Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
On Own for Dinner
7:00–8:00 PM
Friday, June 6, 2025
Breakfast
7:30–8:30 AM
 Independence Salons FGH
Preparing for New Pandemics and Emerging Infections
8:30–11:30 AM
 Independence Salon E
Kanta Subbarao, Université Laval
WHO Strategy, One Health Considerations, Equity
Penny L Moore, University of the Witwatersrand and National Institute for Communicable Diseases
Views from the African Continent
Cristina Cassetti, NIAID, National Institutes of Health
Prototype Vaccines
Rino Rappuoli, Fondazione Biotecnopolo di Siena
An Institute for Pandemic Preparedness
Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
Coffee Break
9:30–9:50 AM
 Foyer
Award Recipient Acknowledgement
9:50–9:55 AM
 Independence Salon E
Poster Setup
11:30–1:00 PM
 Independence Salon E
On Own for Lunch
11:30–2:45 PM
Career Roundtable
1:00–2:30 PM
 Independence Salon E
Poster Viewing
1:00–10:00 PM
 Independence Salon E
Panel Discussion: Pandemic and Antimicrobial Resistance Preparedness
2:45–4:30 PM
 Independence Salon E
Coffee Available
4:30–5:00 PM
 Foyer
Understanding Mechanistic Immunology to Drive Vaccine Design
5:00–7:00 PM
 Independence Salon E
Michel C. Nussenzweig, HHMI/Rockefeller University
Germinal Center Selection
Emanuele Andreano, Fondazione Toscana Life Sciences
B Cell Responses
Federica Sallusto, Università della Svizzera Italiana & ETH Zurich
T Cell Responses
Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
Social Hour with Lite Bites
7:00–8:00 PM
 Independence Salons FGH
Poster Session 2
7:30–10:00 PM
 Independence Salon E
Saturday, June 7, 2025
Breakfast
7:30–8:30 AM
 Independence Salons FGH
Designing and Evaluating New Vaccines
8:30–11:30 AM
 Independence Salon E
Jason S McLellan, The University of Texas at Austin
Structure Based Design
Wolfgang W Leitner, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH, DHHS
NIH Adjuvant Program
Galit Alter, Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard
Mechanistic and Non Mechanistic Correlates of Protection
Florian Krammer, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Development of Broadly Protective Vaccines to Antigenically Variable Viruses
Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
Coffee Break
9:30–9:50 AM
 Foyer
Health Equity Forum
11:30–12:45 PM
 Independence Salon E
On Own for Lunch
12:45–2:30 PM
Symposia Spotlight 2: Late-breaking research presentations selected from abstract submissions
2:30–4:30 PM
 Independence Salon E
Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
Coffee Available
4:30–5:00 PM
 Foyer
Exploiting Tissue Specific Protection to Prevention and Cure
5:00–6:45 PM
 Independence Salon E
Yasmine Belkaid, Pasteur Institut
Talk Title to be Announced
Laurence Zitvogel, Institut Gustave Roussy
Gut Microbiota Impacts the Immunogenicity of Vaccines
Christopher Chiu, Imperial College London
Clinical Trials for Intranasal and Aerosol SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Development
Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions (Organizers)
6:45–7:00 PM
 Independence Salon E
Social Hour with Lite Bites
7:00–8:00 PM
 Independence Salons FGH
Trivia!
8:00–9:00 PM
 Independence Salon E
Sunday, June 8, 2025
Departure
12:00–11:59 PM