The International Scientific Conference titled “Pandemic preparedness: Achievements, current challenges, and new frontiers” will start on Monday. The event, scheduled from November 11 to 13, 2024, at the Savoia Excelsior Palace Hotel in Trieste, will gather internationally renowned scientists to promote knowledge sharing and multidisciplinary cooperation, aimed at preventing and addressing potential epidemic risks from known and emerging viruses.
The Conference, organized by Area Science Park in collaboration with the International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology – ICGEB, as part of the PRP@CERIC project funded by the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR), will feature 10 thematic sessions. Thirteen internationally acclaimed invited speakers, along with 42 speakers, will discuss diagnostics, epidemiology, surveillance, drug discovery, and preventive approaches in a context of multidisciplinary international collaboration to collectively address the challenges of (re)emerging infectious diseases.
The Conference will provide an overview of known and emerging viruses and their epidemic potential, encouraging knowledge sharing and networking, as well as promoting broad synergies and multidisciplinary cooperation.
International experts from various fields applied to pathogen research will participate, covering areas such as Artificial Intelligence, virology, structural biology, genomics, data management, clinical diagnostics, infectious diseases, and zoonoses.
Notable speakers will include: Emma Thomson (MRC-University of Glasgow Centre for virus research), who will discuss next-generation genomic sequencing to detect new and emerging viruses; Yoshihiro Kawaoka (University of Tokyo – University of Wisconsin-Madison), who will talk about current research on influenza and Ebola; Johan Neyts (University of Leuven), who will address antiviral drug development; Marion Koopmans (Erasmus University Medical Center), who will explore the emergence and spread of diseases through “spillover” events; and Rino Rappuoli (Biotecnopolo Foundation of Siena), a pioneer in vaccine and monoclonal antibody development, who will discuss the amplification of infections due to climate change.
Here you can find the Conference program.