08-09 October 2025
Vaccines at a Crossroads: Precision Vaccinology as a New Paradigm
08:00 – 08:30 am | Registration: Main Lobby, Hotel Champlain |
08:30 – 08:50 am | Welcome: Ofer Levy, MD, PhD (Precision Vaccines Program, Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School) |
08:50 – 09:35 am | Keynote Speaker: John Tsang, PhD, MMath (Yale University) |
09:35 – 10:00 am | Coffee Break |
Session 1: Emerging And Re-Emerging Diseases And Challenges | |
10:00 – 10:15 am | RSV Prevention Strategies: An Example Of Precision Vaccinology, Bukky Idoko, PhD (Sanofi) |
10:15 – 10:30 am | Updates on Dengue Vaccines, Beth Kirkpatrick, MD (University of Vermont) |
10:30 – 10:45 am | Large-Scale Antibody Reactome Profiling Identifies Herpesvirus-Autoantigen Associations Underlying Chronic Disease, Jessica Lasky-Su, DSc, MS (Brigham and Women’s Hospital) |
10:45 – 11:00 am | Q&A Panel |
Session 2: Preclinical Modeling Of Vaccine Action | |
11:00 – 11:15 am | Unlocking Immunity: The Adjuvant AS01 As A Key To Vaccinate Diverse Populations, Margherita Coccia, DPhil (GlaxoSmithKline) |
11:15 – 11:30 am | Deep Phenomics Of Human Innate And Adaptive Responses, Soumik Barman, PhD (Precision Vaccines Program, Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School) |
11:30 – 11:45 am | Guzman Sanchez-Schmitz, PhD (Precision Vaccines Program, Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School) |
11:45 – 12:00 pm | Mining The CD4 Antigen Repertoire Or Next-Generation Tuberculosis Vaccines, Dan Barouch, MD, PhD (Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center & Harvard Medical School) |
12:00 – 12:15 pm | Q&A Panel |
12:15 – 01:45 pm |
Free time to explore Burlington and enjoy lunch at your leisure. |
Session 3: Vaccine Safety | |
02:00 – 02:15 pm | Immunization Safety: From Risk Assessment To Risk Reduction, Robert Chen, MD (Brighton Collaboration & INSIS) |
02:15 – 02:30 pm | International Network Of Special Immunization Services: Harnessing Precision Vaccinology To Advance Vaccine Safety Science, Karina Top, MD (University of Alberta & INSIS) |
02:30 – 02:45 pm | Vaccine Safety: Assessing And Communicating Risks, Al Ozonoff, PhD (Broad Institute at Massachusetts Institute of Technology & Boston Children’s Hospital) |
02:45 – 03:00 pm | Q&A Panel |
Session 4: Systems Vaccinology | |
03:00 – 03:15 pm | The Immune Signatures Data Resource: An AI-Ready Compendium of Systems Vaccinology Datasets, Joann Arce, PhD (Precision Vaccines Program, Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School) |
03:15 – 03:30 pm | Sean Diehl (University of Vermont) |
03:30 – 03:45 pm | Casey Shannon (University of British Columbia) |
03:45 – 04:00 pm | Q&A Panel |
04:00 – 04:35 pm | Oral Abstract Presentations |
04:35 – 04:45 pm | Closing Remarks |
05:15 – 05:20 pm | Meet In Lobby To Walk To Dinner |
05:30 – 07:30 pm | Dinner on the Spirit of Ethan Allen Cruise |
08:00 – 08:05 am | Opening Remarks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
08:05 – 08:50 am | Keynote Speaker: Paolo Palma (Ospedale Pediatrico Bambino Gesu & Vaccinopolis), Pediatric HIV And The Search For An Effective Immunotherapeutic Strategy | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Session 5: Clinical Vaccinology | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
08:50 – 09:05 am | Age-Specific Trained Immunity, Asimenia Angelidou, MD, PhD (Precision Vaccines Program, Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
09:05 – 09:20 am | Dengue Vaccines, Kristen Pierce, MD (University of Vermont) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
09:20 – 09:35 am | Systems Biology To Define Biomarkers Of The Reactogenicity And Immunogenicity Of GLA-SE Adjuvanted Gp120 HIV Vaccine In Infants, Kinga Smolen, PhD (Precision Vaccines Program, Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
09:35 – 09:50 am | Q&A Panel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
09:50 – 10:50 am | Coffee Break, Poster Presentations, and Exhibits | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Session 6: Implications Of Climate And Population Trajectory On Precision Vaccinology | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
10:50 – 11:05 am | Nelly Ameyogbe, PhD (University of British Columbia) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11:05 – 11:20 am | Aging And Vaccinology, Amy Sherman, MD (Brigham And Women’s Hospital) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11:20 – 11:35 am | Lindsey Baden, MD (Brigham And Women’s Hospital) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
11:35 – 11:50 am | Q&A Panel | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
12:00 – 03:00 pm | Free time to explore Burlington and enjoy lunch at your leisure. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
03:00 – 04:00 pm | Panel Discussion: Vaccines At A Crossroads: Considerations & Path Forward
Session 7: Adjuvants04:00 – 04:15 pm Human In Vitro Modeling Platforms For The Preclinical Investigation Of Adjuvant Combinations, Simon Van Haren, PhD (Precision Vaccines Program, Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School) 04:15 – 04:30 pm Adjuvant Centric Vaccinology, David Dowling, PhD (Precision Vaccines Program, Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School) 04:30 – 04:45 pm Margie Ackerman, PhD (Dartmouth University) 04:45 – 05:00 pm Adjuvants: Bridging The Gap Between Innate And Adaptive Immunity, Jay Evans, PhD (Inimmune Inc) 05:00 – 05:15 pm Q&A Panel Session 8: Addressing The Opioid Epidemic With Vaccines05:15 – 05:30 pm Youth Opioid Epidemic, Sharon Levy, MD, MPH (Boston Children’s Hospital & Harvard Medical School) 05:30 – 05:45 pm Attitudes Towards An Opioid Vaccine, Elissa Weitzman, ScD, MSc (Boston Children’s Hospital) 05:45 – 06:00 pm Mucosal Vaccine Protection Against Fentanyl Intoxication Generates Meningeal Plasma Cells and Requires IgA., Elizabeth "Betzi" Norton, PhD (Tulane University) 06:00 – 06:15 pm Q&A Panel 06:15 – 06:45 pm Oral Abstract Presentations 06:45 – 07:00 pm Closing Remarks | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||