2023 International Society for Vaccines (ISV) Annual Congress, October 22-25, Lausanne, Switzerland

International Society Of Vaccines, Worcester MA

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Project Summary / Abstract The International Society for Vaccines (ISV) is a not-for-profit membership organization founded in 1992 with members from 44 countries, holding annual congresses since 2007. With the ISV Annual Congress, attended by member and non-member participants from 5 continents, the Society aims to highlight the very latest ground-breaking developments in vaccine research, manufacturing, clinical development and implementation, and safety. Plenary sessions are devoted to current hot topics spanning diverse areas of vaccinology, including vaccines against challenging targets, T-cell based vaccines, B cell memory establishment, structure-based vaccine design, mucosal vaccines, and vaccines against emerging infectious diseases. The ISV Congress, as the main comprehensive non-commercial vaccine meeting, strives to ensure participation of speakers and delegates from a diverse background (academic, industry, government, and foundations). Breakout sessions include topics related to adjuvant mechanisms, One Health, vaccines against zoonotic infections, and next generation vaccines. Renowned invited speakers in these fields have been and will be invited to set the stage for each of the plenary topics, complemented with oral presentations selected from the submitted abstracts. The program will also provide a forum for the next generation of scientists who are active in the vaccinology field, to present their data in oral or poster presentations, discuss with peers and senior scientists, and advance their careers, be it in academia, industry, or government. ISV’s Bright Sparks in Vaccinology competition acknowledges student and postdoc presentations in parallel sessions of the oral program to support the participation and careers of next generation vaccinologists. To strengthen their professional advancements, the ISV Congress, building on its long-standing commitment to mentoring, dedicate a session to career development opportunities, bringing together junior and senior scientists in an interactive atmosphere. To stimulate the participation of young scientists, which has always been successful in the past, the ISV has a policy of inexpensive registration rates for PhD students and provides Travel Awards to selected junior scientists (based upon abstract submission and review for quality) to help defray costs of in-person and virtual participation. Prizes for best presentations or oral abstracts and poster abstracts are a high priority of the ISV Officers, who volunteer to review and rank all presentations during the ongoing conference to select winners and runners up based on abstract quality and presentation skills, and present award certificates to the prize winners.