The MMWR for December 17, 2010 / Vol. 59 / No. 49 includes:

Announcement: 14th Annual Conference on Vaccine Research

December 17, 2010 / 59(49);1620

The 14th Annual Conference on Vaccine Research, the largest scientific forum devoted exclusively to the research and development of vaccines and related technologies for prevention and treatment of disease through immunization, will be held May 16–18, 2011, at the Baltimore Marriott Waterfront Hotel in Baltimore, Maryland. The conference brings together the diverse fields of human and veterinary vaccinology to encourage collaboration and multidisciplinary approaches among disease-specific and methodologic experts.

One Health initiatives, herpesvirus vaccines, the status of human immunodeficiency virus vaccines, genomics, special populations in immunology, and alternative animal models in vaccine discovery are among topics scheduled for discussion during the conference. New this year is a preconference workshop in academic vaccinology, Writing and Submitting a Vaccine Research Paper.

…The vaccine research conference is sponsored by the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases, in collaboration with CDC and 13 other national and international agencies and organizations. Additional information is available at http://www.nfid.org/conferences/vaccine11