Pathogenesis and Control of Emerging Infections and Drug-Resistant Organisms

Organizer(s): B. Brett Finlay, Alan Cowman, Stephen Hughes, Sumalee Kamchonwongpaisan, Valerie Mizrahi and Philippe J. Sansonetti

Part of the Keystone Symposia Global Health Series, Supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Summary of Meeting:

This meeting will review the most recent developments in the molecular and cellular analysis of infectious disease processes, and how discoveries in this field can be translated into innovative tools (i.e. diagnostic assays, new drugs, vaccines and other therapeutics) for better surveillance and control. Emphasis will be on the neglected infectious and parasitic diseases that plague the developing world (with lessons taken from better studied organisms), and on issues such as drug resistance that are common themes, regardless of geographic and economic situations.

Global Health Travel Award Deadline: May 19 2008

Scholarship Deadline: June 23 2008

Discounted Abstract Deadline: June 23 2008

Abstract Deadline: July 28 2008

Discounted Registration Deadline: August 25 2008

We gratefully acknowledge additional support for this conference from:

We gratefully acknowledge additional in-kind support for this conference from those foregoing speaker expense reimbursements:

Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Inc.

Tibotec, Inc.

We gratefully acknowledge the generous grant for this conference provided by:

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)
Grant No. 1R13AI079916-01

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