Carbohydrate-Based Vaccines
This course will be held on 13 & 14 October 2008 at the Golden Tulip Berghotel, Amersfoort, the Netherlands.
Course Introduction and Aims
Many important diseases are caused by bacteria expressing cell surface carbohydrates, and where antibody responses against these glycans are protective against disease. This offers a mechanism to create protective immunity, which is now being widely exploited.
This intensive post-experience course covers the development of polysaccharide and glycoconjugate vaccines, their manufacture and quality control, and those factors considered crucial for an effective product. The molecular mechanisms by which these vaccines work and clinical trial and post licensure monitoring of their effects will also be covered.
Who should attend
The course is designed primarily for industrial and academic scientists engaged in vaccine development, and particularly in development, production, purification, characterisation, quality control, and also for professionals involved in the licensing and regulation of products of these type.
Course Topics
- Diseases caused by bacteria possessing a glycocalyx
- Purified polysaccharide vaccines
- Introduction to conjugate vaccines
- Conjugation chemistries
- Characterisation and Quality control of glycoconjugate vaccines
- Serological responses to glycoconjugate and polysaccharide vaccines
- Mechanisms of immunogenicity of polysaccharide and glycoconjugate vaccines
- Epidemiology and vaccine efficacy - lessons from clinical trials and post-marketing surveillance Future prospects
Tutorial team
The tutors, who will be in attendance throughout the course, bring to bear a wealth of varied teaching, research and industrial experience:
- Chris Jones, Ph.D.
- (Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Structure at the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control)
Chris Jones profile - Ian Feavers
- (Principal Scientist in the Division of Bacteriology at the NIBSC)
Ian Feavers profile
Fees and Location
Fully inclusive registration & course fee 950 euros
The course will begin at 10.00am on 13 October and finish at approx.16.30pm on 14 October. It will be held in the pleasant Golden Tulip Berghotel in Amersfoort, the Netherlands. Amersfoort can easily be reached from Schiphol airport by train (45 minutes, the train leaves every 30 minutes).
The course fee of 950 Euros includes registration, accommodation at the Golden Tulip Berghotel for one night (13 October), continental breakfast and lunches, all tuition and a comprehensive course manual. Attendance on the course is limited to the first 25 participants whose registration is confirmed.
Those who would like to stay in the hotel the night before the start of the course (12 October) are advised to make reservations directly with the hotel, at the same time mentioning the BioUpdate Foundation. (For this purpose BioUpdate has reserved a block of rooms which are offered at 121 Euros per night.) The hotel bill for such a room a must be settled independently.
Course Registration Form
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