BioUpdate Foundation

The BioUpdate Foundation

The BioUpdate Foundation organises courses aimed at putting knowledge into practice.

Courses are limited to specific areas of pharmaceutical, biomedical and life science interest.  We strive to make them suitable for both those who need to be introduced to new areas of interest and those who wish to have their knowledge updated.

Our short term, typically 2 day, residential courses have distinctive features which are designed to give maximum opportunity and maximum benefit to participants.

Carbohydrate Based Vaccines Course
Amersfoort, April 2-3, 2012

If there was a Jumbo Jet crash everyday, each one killing 500 people, there would be a global outcry. Yet some diseases, typhoid for example, kill more than 500 people each day. There are vaccines against this and other killer diseases, such as pneumonia; vaccines that are based on a carbohydrate rather than a protein antigen. The potency of these vaccines may sometimes be improved by conjugating the carbohydrate antigen to a carrier protein. Such conjugate vaccines are the most rapidly growing class of vaccines, yet their use, as our  Hot Topic shows, can be the subject of debate.

If you would like to know more about Carbohydrate Based Vaccines, which diseases they can treat, how they are made and characterised, how well do they perform, then our Carbohydrate Based Vaccines course has the answers.  Presented by UK experts Ian Feavers and Chris Jones, the course will take place in Amersfoort, April 2-3, 2012, and bookings are still open. Further details are available on our Courses page.

Want to book a place on the Carbohydrate Based Vaccines course, April 2012?  Click the link to download full details and a Registration Form.