Day 1: Tuesday, December 3, 2024
SESSION 1: Tackling emerging viruses
Plenary Lecture: Update on N5H1 an emerging global threat
Sten Vermund, Yale University, Global Virus Network, USA
Strengthening vaccine confidence: key factors, strategies, and future directions
Ana Bolio, Vaccine Confidence Project, Mexico
SESSION 2: Long-COVID
Long COVID: Defining a potential reservoir in the GI tract
Sara Cherry, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Day 2: Wednesday, December 4, 2024
SESSION 3: Barry-Wainberg DART Achievement Award Session
Unraveling pathways of viral disease emergence
Peter Palese, Mount Siani Icahn School of Medicine, USA
Session 4: Immunity and advances in vaccine development
Plenary lecture: Human parainfluenza virus and respiratory syncytial virus coinfection mechanisms
David J. Marchant, University of Alberta, Canada
A change in the paradigm for the prevention of RSV in infants and young children
Asuncion Mejias, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, USA
Mechanisms of respiratory syncytial virus-induced cell death
Barbara Nery Porto, University of Manitoba, Canada
SESSION 5: Industry Session
Novel ligand-targeted immunotherapy for the treatment of human respiratory syncytial virus
Jeffery Nielsen, Eradivir, USA
IM-250 – a 2nd generation, long-acting, nerve-tissue penetrating helicase primase inhibitor for the treatment of HSV infection and disease
Thomas Hoffman, Innovative Molecules, Germany
Sujin Lee, Vernagen, Emory University, USA
David McGowan, Aligos Therapeutics, USA
SESSION 6: Immune responses and emerging viruses
Long-term consequences of acute parainfluenza virus infection
Carolina B. Lopez, Washington University in St. Louis, USA
Oral Abstract Session I
Dharmeshkumar Patel, Emory University, USA
The rapid evolution of the 2022-23 monkeypox outbreak: An investigation of APOBEC3-derived mutations
Rachel Liu, SUNY Binghamton University, USA
Exhaustive characterization of the broad-spectrum activity of flavivirus protease inhibitors
Dario Akaberi, Uppsala University, Sweden
Day 3: Thursday, December 5, 2024
SESSION 7: Immuological and antiviral protease approaches to Coronavirus infections
Oral Abstract Session II
Systems immunology defines immunological profiles associated with Long COVID onset and recovery
Andrea Cox, Johns Hopkins University, USA
Mechanistic Insights on Small Molecule Entry Inhibitors of Influenza A Viruses
Lijun Rong, University of Illinois, USA
Summary of Posters and Meeting
Boghuma Kabisen Titanji, Emory University, USA
Oral Abstract Session 3 (non-CME)
A small molecule based bispecific antigenic immunotherapy for the treatment of dengue
Conrrad Nicholls, Eradivir, USA
Mary Lynn Baniecki, Pfizer, USA
Business of antiviral agents
Tavi Yehuda
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Frank Rahmani
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