The Global Challenges Research Fund (GCRF) Vaccine Networks (IVVN, BactiVac, HIC-Vac, IMPRINT and VALIDATE) are running a veterinary and human vaccinology course in association with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation (UN FAO), through the European Commission for the Control of Foot and Mouth Disease (EuFMD), in Bangkok, Thailand.
The course is aimed at post-graduate students and early career researchers and will address aspects of human and animal vaccinology, the vaccine development process, biomanufacturing, regulatory and ethical issues. The course will be delivered by an exceptional line up of world renowned academic and industrial speakers, and resonates with the ‘One Health’ agenda by highlighting the synergies between the human and veterinary vaccinology fields from scientific, technological and regulatory perspectives. The course emulates the successful series of Jenner Institute training courses in Africa.
The GCRF Vaccinology Networks are providing scholarships that will cover the cost of travel, accommodation, meals and course fees. Prospective attendees are invited to apply through the GCRF Vaccine Networks websites.
There are a total of 40 scholarships available to attend this workshop, of which IVVN will be sponsoring 20.
Applicants applying for an IVVN scholarship must be members of the IVVN (sign up here) and preference for the allocation of scholarships will be given to:
Students (defined as individuals who are registered as university postgraduate students, including Doctoral Researchers) resident in the UK or ASEAN countries
Early career researchers (defined as individuals who do not currently hold a substantive position within their organisation) resident in the UK or ASEAN countries
Those wishing to apply through the IVVN should complete the IVVN Application Form, and send the completed form and associated documents to the IVVN Strategic Communication Officer, Francesca Ziolkowska at Francesca.Ziolkowska@ed.ac.uk by 9th September 2018.
Speakers
Prof. Sandra Adams, University of Stirling, UK
Prof. Stephen Baker, Wellcome Trust Centre, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
Dr. Bryan Charleston, Pirbright Institute, UK
Dr. Tim Connelley, Roslin Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK
Prof. Susanna Dunachie, University of Oxford, UK
Dr. Gwenaelle Dauphin, Ceva Animal Health, UK
Dr. Helen Fletcher, LSHTM, UK
Prof. Sarah Gilbert, Jenner Institute, UK
Prof. Adrian Hill, Jenner Institute, UK
Dr. Danika Hill, Babraham Institute, UK
Dr. Nicola Lewis, International Reference Laboratory for Avian and Swine Influenzas and Newcastle Disease, UK
Dr. Nick Lyons, European Commission for the Control of Foot and Mouth Disease, Italy
Outline Programme
Day 1 – Principles of Vaccinology
Introduction to human and veterinary vaccinology
Human vaccine requirements in South East Asia
Veterinary vaccine requirements in South East Asia
Vaccine immunology
The vaccine development pathway – an industry perspective
Day 2 – Vaccine Technologies and Developments
Technologies in vaccine development
Vaccine delivery systems
Adjuvants
Immunogenicity and correlates of protection
Monitoring immune response: i) B-cells
Monitoring immune response: i) T-cells
Monitoring immune response: i) systems biology/transcriptomics
Day 3 – Major Vaccine Targets
Malaria vaccines
Enteric bacterial diseases
Foot and mouth disease
Tuberculosis
Meloidosis
Bacterial diseases in aquaculture
Rabies
Antimicrobial resistance
Outbreak/emerging diseases
Day 4 – Vaccine field trials and deployment in developing countries
Phase I trials
Epidemiology and vaccine trial design
Good clinical practice and safety, QC and QA
Statistical analysis of vaccine trials
Human trials
Veterinary trials
The role of NGOs
Regulation and ethical issues
Socio-economics of vaccine use
Day 5 – Influenza as a case study of vaccine design and use
Epidemiology of influenza
Immunology of influenza
Influenza vaccine manufacturing
Novel influenza vaccines
Influenza vaccine trials
Regulation and socio-economics of influenza vaccines (zoonosis and private/public good)