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Co-hosted by the Precision Vaccines Program of Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH; Boston, MA) and Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù (OPBG; Rome, Italy), the Biomarkers of vaccine safety and efficacy in Vulnerable Population Conference is developed by the IPVC Organizing Committee led by Prof. Ofer Levy of Boston Children’s Hospital and Prof. Paolo Palma of Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesù. This in-person conference will gather experts in vaccinology and immunology from academia, government and industry to provide insight on the conference theme:

Precision Vaccines: Biomarkers of vaccine safety and efficacy in vulnerable populations

Topic

Vaccines prevent ~3 million deaths every year and are crucial in combating antimicrobial resistance. Optimizing implementation of existing vaccines could help avert up to 1.5 million additional deaths as well as disabilities resulting from vaccine preventable diseases. Immunologically vulnerable populations (VPs), including pregnant women, term and preterm newborns and young infants, older adults and patients affected by chronic or immunocompromising conditions are frequently under-vaccinated and/or at risk of reduced vaccine efficacy, presenting a major health and economic burden to society. Vaccine development programs mainly focus on healthy populations; therefore, vaccination strategies are often based on data arising from healthy study participants. The goal of the 4th International Precision Vaccines Conference is to discuss and reflect on recent studies of vaccine safety and immunogenicity relevant to vulnerable populations. We welcome abstracts from different disciplines, spanning scientific areas in epidemiology, basic immunology, systems vaccinology, and human in vitro modeling. We encourage submissions focused on the following themes:

1. Host-, pathogen- or drug-related mechanisms that can affect responsiveness to vaccines in VPs
2. Safety and immunogenicity of existing and novel vaccines for different pathological conditions and age groups, represented by VPs
3. Proposed new biomarkers of safety and efficacy to guide effective optimal vaccination of VPs

Meeting Venue

Parco dei Principi Grand Hotel & Spa

Via G. Frescobaldi, 5 – 00198 Roma, Italy
www.parcodeiprincipi.com

Organizing Committee

Scientific board

Paolo Palma, MD, PhD
Ofer Levy, MD, PhD
Stanley Plotkin, MD
Olubukola “Bukky” Idoko, MD, PhD, MSc
Nicola Cotugno MD, PhD
Asimenia Angelidou, MD, PhD

Administrative Board

Nicole Lewis, Giulia Neccia, Jennifer Faudella, Mehmet Saluvan, Amy Sherman

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Programme

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Abstracts

We are accepting abstract submissions for IPVC posters and/or oral presentations. Abstracts will be included in the conference brochure.
Submission deadline: 8 June 2023

Submission guidelines:

• in PDF or Microsoft Word format, Arial 11-point font, 0.5-inch margins.
• not to exceed 500 words, excluding title, authors, and affiliations (please provide these)
• extra page for tables, figures, and references is permitted
• additional questions, please email precisionvaccinesprogram@childrens.harvard.edu

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Hotels suggested near the meeting venue
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Unrestricted Educational Grant

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