{"id":57647,"date":"2015-10-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/uri-vaccine-lab-to-host-9th-annual-vaccine-renaissance-conference-nov-4-6\/"},"modified":"2015-10-21T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2015-10-21T00:00:00","slug":"uri-vaccine-lab-to-host-9th-annual-vaccine-renaissance-conference-nov-4-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2015\/10\/uri-vaccine-lab-to-host-9th-annual-vaccine-renaissance-conference-nov-4-6\/","title":{"rendered":"溏心vlog免费B站 vaccine lab to host 9th annual Vaccine Renaissance conference, Nov 4-6"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tPROVIDENCE, R.I. \u2013 October 21, 2015 — Even though Ebola has faded from the news headlines, newly emerging infectious diseases remain a challenge for vaccine developers. Completely new approaches to vaccines \u2013 as well as ancient ones — will be the focus of this year\u2019s edition of the Vaccine Renaissance conference, hosted by the Institute for Immunology and Informatics (iCubed) at the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Providence Campus.

\nThe event will take place at Hotel Providence on November 4-6, 2015.<\/p>\n


\nNow in its ninth year, the Vaccine Renaissance conference will focus on the crucial role vaccines play in human health and on the new methods to improve vaccine safety and efficacy. On the first day of the conference, international experts will describe their efforts to combat avian influenza, malaria and dengue fever. Off-target effects of vaccines including narcolepsy will be discussed on Day 2.<\/p>\n


\nFeatured speakers include Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott, director of the Rhode Island Department of Health, who will address HPV vaccine acceptance in the state, while Dr. Steven Hoffman, chief executive and scientific officer of biotech company Sanaria Inc., will describe clinical trials with his irradiated sporozoite vaccine. <\/p>\n


\nOther speakers include Janet McNicholl of the Centers for Disease Control, Manon Cox of Protein Sciences Corp., and Mark Poznansky of Harvard Medical School.

\nStudents will participate in a poster session, with the three best posters awarded prizes during the closing ceremony. Researchers will also participate in a computational vaccinology workshop, organized by iCubed and EpiVax, which will take place on the last day of the conference.<\/p>\n


\nConference Summary:

\n\u2022\tWednesday, Nov. 4 at Hotel Providence: sessions include malaria, dengue, and new approaches to influenza.

\n\u2022\tThursday, Nov. 5 at Hotel Providence: sessions include new ideas, animal health, new vaccines and immunology of vaccines.

\n\u2022\tFriday, Nov. 6 at 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Providence Campus: iCubed and EpiVax will host a hands-on immunoinformatics toolkit training.<\/p>\n


\nFor a full agenda, visit www.immunome.org\/conferences\/9th-annual-renaissance-conference.<\/p>\n


\niCubed is a vaccine and immunology research center located at the 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Providence campus. Its mission is to improve human and animal health by applying the power of genomics and informatics to the design of better vaccines, diagnostics and therapeutics. It applies cutting-edge bioinformatics tools to accelerate the development of treatments and cures for a number of diseases such as hepatitis C, Lyme disease and dengue fever. The Institute aims to rapidly make these tools available to the global research community for the development of vaccines for other infectious diseases. iCubed also educates and trains the next generation of vaccine and immunology researchers.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

PROVIDENCE, R.I. \u2013 October 21, 2015 — Even though Ebola has faded from the news headlines, newly emerging infectious diseases remain a challenge for vaccine developers. Completely new approaches to vaccines \u2013 as well as ancient ones — will be the focus of this year\u2019s edition of the Vaccine Renaissance conference, hosted by the Institute […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archives"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}