The Future of Vaccinology 2025

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April 22-23, 2025

LIUNA STATION
Hamilton, ON

The Future of Vaccinology is a two-day symposium designed to bring thought-leaders together for holistic discussion about ongoing and emerging vaccine-relevant research. Key themes include aerosolized vaccines, vaccines that offer broad protection, experimental vaccinology, cancer vaccines, vaccination of vulnerable populations, and more. The event is tailored to researchers and trainees, industry professionals, government representatives, public health officials, regulatory experts, and scientific journal editors. This will be the third Global Nexus Symposium, and the second to focus on vaccinology.

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Meet the Keynote: Laurie Garrett

Laurie Garrett wrote her first bestselling book, The Coming Plague: Newly Emerging Diseases in a World Out of Balance, while splitting her time between the Harvard School of Public Health and the New York newspaper, Newsday. In the 1992-93 academic years, Garrett was a Fellow at Harvard, where she worked closely with the emerging diseases group, a collection of faculty concerned about the surge in epidemics of previously unknown or rare viruses and bacteria. The book was published in 1994, and spent 19 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. During the 1990s Garrett continued tracking outbreaks and epidemics worldwide, noting the insufficient responses from global public health institutions in Zaire, India, Russia and most of the former USSR, Eastern Europe, and the United States. This resulted in the publication of her second book, Betrayal of Trust: The Collapse of Global Public Health. In Summer 2011, Garrett’s long-awaited third book, I Heard the Sirens Scream: How Americans Responded to the 9/11 and Anthrax Attacks, was published. Garrett’s writing has earned her some of the craft’s highest honours, including a Peabody Award, a Polk Award, and a Pulitzer Prize. Garrett is also a Member of the World Economic Forum Global Health Security Advisory Board. She is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and the National Association for Science Writers.

Don’t miss Laurie’s keynote address: April 22, 2024 @ 1:00pm. She will be available for a book signing following the talk.

Agenda

April 22, 2025: Check-In, Commencement, and Keynote

12:30 - 12:45 PM

Arrival and check-in

12:45 - 1:00 PM

Opening remarks and video presentation

1:00 - 2:00 PM

Keynote Lecture by author and journalist Laurie Garrett

Talk: “Global Health is Dead. Long Live Global Health”

2:00 - 3:00 PM

Book signing and meet-and-greet with Laurie Garrett

A small number of books will be available for purchase on site — first come, first served.

April 22, 2025: New Paradigms in Vaccinology

3:00 - 3:30 PM

Peter Palese, Professor of Microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai

Talk: “Universal Influenza Virus Vaccines: Past, Present, and Future”

3:30 - 4:00 PM

Matthew Miller, Director of the Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research at McMaster University

Talk: “Novel approaches for passive immunization at the respiratory mucosa”

4:00 - 4:30 PM

Danilo Casimiro, Chief Science Officer, Vaccines R&D at Sanofi

Sanofi-sponsored lecture: “Innovations in the Development of Next-Generation Vaccines Against Infectious Diseases”

4:30 - 5:00 PM

Cliona Rooney, Director of the Translational Research Laboratories of the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at the Baylor College of Medicine

Talk: “Vaccination to enhance the potency of CAR T-cells”

6:00 - 10:00 PM

Special banquet dinner at Ancaster Mill
(For banquet ticket-holders only).

548 Old Dundas Rd, Ancaster, ON L9G 3J4

April 23, 2025: Vaccines at the Clinical Frontier

9:00 - 9:30 AM

Sir Adrian Hill, Director of the Jenner Institute at the University of Oxford

Talk: “New Approaches for Global Health Vaccines: Malaria and More”

9:30 - 10:00 AM

Fiona Smaill, Professor of Pathology & Molecular Medicine at McMaster University

Talk: “Two Decades of Innovation: The Journey of Inhaled Vaccine Development”

10:00 - 10:30 AM

James Mansi (VP, Medical Affairs at Moderna) and Alan Embry (Executive Director, Program Leader, Infectious Disease at Moderna)

Moderna-sponsored panel: “Next-Generation Vaccines: The Promise of mRNA.” Moderated by Victor Kramer.

10:30 - 11:00 AM

Chris Gall, Family Physician — Barrie, ON

Talk: “Talking with patients and parents about immunization”

11:00 - 11:30

Coffee and bio break

April 23, 2025: Vaccine Safety, Efficacy, and Effectiveness

11:30 AM - 12:00 PM

Shelly Bolotin, Director of the Centre for Vaccine Preventable Diseases at University of Toronto

Talk: “From elimination to outbreak: The return of measles in Canada”

12:00 - 12:30 PM

Brian Ward, Professor of Medicine at McGill University

Talk: “The value of human challenge studies”

12:30 - 1:30 PM

Lunch

1:30 - 2:00 PM

Ann Falsey, Professor of Medicine at the University Of Rochester

Talk: “Adult RSV Vaccination: The Time has Come”

2:00 - 2:30 PM

Alyson Kelvin, Virologist at the Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) at the University of Saskatchewan, and Gregg Sylvester, Chief Health Officer at CSL Seqirus

Seqirus-sponsored lecture: “Influenza research: Is closer better?”

2:30 - 3:00 PM

Coffee and bio break