The Organizing and International Advisory Committee is planning an outstanding scientific program. We have confirmed the following globally recognized scientists to give keynote presentations: (click photos below for more details on each speaker)
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
INVITED SPEAKERS
Kristina Adams-Waldorf, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
Judith Allen, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
Maninjay Atianand, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States
Glen Barber, University of Miami, Miami, United States
Ralph Baric, UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health, Chapel Hill, United States
Betsy Barnes, Feinstein Institutes for Medical Research, Manhasset, United States
Dan Barouch, Harvard Medical School, United States
Alina Baum, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, United States
Sonja Best, NIH, Rocky Mountains Labs, Hamilton, United States
Estelle Bettelli, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, United States
Catherine Blish, Stanford University Medical Center, Stanford, United States
Igor Brodsky, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
Helen Y Chu, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
Jörn Coers, Duke University, Durham, United States
Antonio del Sol, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Michael Diamond, Washington University, St Louis, United States
Marlène Dreux, INSERM, Lyon, France
Eleanor Fish, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Kate Fitzgerald, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, United States
Sarah L. Gaffen, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Department of Medicine, Pittsburgh, United States
Chris Garcia, Stanford University, Stanford, United States
Sara Hamilton, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States
Jorge Henao-Mejia, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
Kristin Hogquist, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States
Stacy Horner, Duke University, Durham, United States
Curt Horvath, Northwestern University, Evanston, United States
Christopher Hunter, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
Jennifer Hyde, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
Ruaidhri Jackson, Harvard Medical School, Boston, United States
Simon Jones, Cardiff University, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Jonathan Kagan, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, United States
Eiryo Kawakami, Department of Artificial Intelligence Medicine, Grad. Sch. of Med., Chiba University, Chiba, Japan
Nikki Klatt, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, United States
Robyn Klein, Washington University, St. Louis, United States
Venkatesh Gary Krishnan, Eli Lilly & Co., Indianapolis, United States
Vijay K. Kuchroo, Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, United States
Warren J. Leonard, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, NIH, Bethesda, USA
David Levy, NYU Langone, New York, United States
P’ng Loke, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, United States
Jennifer Lund, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle, United States
Mandy McGeachy, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, United States
Andrew McKenzie, MRC, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Daniel McVicar, National Cancer Institute, Frederick, United States
Vineet D. Menachery, University of Texas Medical Branch, Houston, United States
Anna Molofsky, UC San Francisco, San Francisco, United States
Kathleen Neuzil, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, United States
Timothy Nice, Oregon and Health Sciences University, Portland, United States
Mariko Okada, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Osaka, Japan
Selinda Orr, Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast, United Kingdom
Chandrashekhar Pasare, Cincinnati Children’s, Ohio, United States
Louis Picker, Oregon Health & Science University, Portland, United States
Fiona Powrie, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
Anne Puel, The Rockefeller University, New York, United States
Lalita Ramakrishnan, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Gwendalyn Randolph, Washington University, St. Louis, United States
Barbara Rehermann, NIH, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases, Bethesda, United States
Boris Reizis, NYU Langone, New York, United States
Aaron Ring, Yale, New Haven, United States
Ellen Rothenberg, Caltech, Pasadena, United States
John Schoggins, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, United States
Rafick-Pierre Sékaly, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, United States
Gregory F. Sonnenberg, PhD, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, United States
George Stark, Cleveland Clinic, Cleveland, United States
Daniel Stetson, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
Naeha Subramanian, Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, United States
Mehul Suthar, Emory Vaccine Center, Atlanta, United States
Reiko Tanaka, Imperial College London, Faculty of Engineering, Department of Bioengineering, London, UK
Benjamin TenOever, Mount Sinai, Icahn School of Medicine, Sinai, United States
Jenny Ting, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, United States
Shannon Turley, Genentech, San Francisco, United States
Monika Wolkers, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Joshua Woodward, University of Washington, Seattle, United States
Ivan Zanoni, Boston Children’s Hospital, Boston, United States
Steven Ziegler, Benaroya Research Institute, Seattle, United States