November 27-28 2024

Lyon, France

Program

DAY 1

Wednesday, 27 November 2024

8h30

Registration & welcome coffee

9h10

Welcome Address

9h15

Opening lectures

- Plenary

Chaired by Daniel Larocque, Sanofi

9h15

Discovery and Characterization of Zosurabalpin

Claudia Zampaloni

Senior Principal Scientist

Roche - Switzerland

9h45

Systems-level analyses of human immunity

Petter Brodin

Professor

Imperial college London - United Kingdom

Karolinska Institute - Sweden

10h15

Coffe Break - B2B Meetings

10h45

Track 1: Alternatives to current antibiotics

- Plenary

Chaired by Francesca Bernardini, Evotec & Sébastien Coyne, Aurobac

10h45

Application of phage therapy in infectious diseases

Giuseppe Maccari

Senior Bioinformatician

Toscana Life Sciences - Italy

& Co-founder

Fagoterapia LAB- Italy

11h05

A Human Lung Tissue Model to Study - Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infection and Treatment

Urs Jenal

Swiss Microbiologist and Professor

Biozentrum - University of Basel - Switzerland

11h25

Phage lysins for transformative innovation of the antibiotics market

Yves Briers

CSO

Obulytix - Belgium

11h45

Q&A session

12h00

Lunchbreak - Poster Presentation - B2B Meetings

14h00

Track 2 : Immunotherapies & new biotherapeutics

- Plenary

Chaired by Robbert van der Most, VaxxCellence & Cyril Guyard, Bioaster

14h00

Broad spectrum biotherapies for emergency preparedness

Caroline Ballet

Scientific Project Leader

Fab'entech - France

14h20

The potential of broadly neutralizing antibodies to prevent and treat HIV-1 infection

Florian Klein

Professor and Director

University Hospital of Cologne - Germany

14h40

Breaking new ground - targeting the gut microbiota in systemic autoimmunity

Carina Brune

Pharmacist

University of Münster - Germany

15h00

Targeting Long Non-Coding RNAs with Antisense Oligonucleotides to Enhance Vaccine Response

Stephanie Fanucchi

CSO

Lemba Therapeutics - Netherlands

15h20

Insights into the in vivo mode of action of mono- and bispecific antibodies through kinetic analysis
of affinity and avidity

Anahí Higuera-Rodriguez

Field Application Scientist

Dynamic Biosensors - Germany

15h35

Q&A session

15h50

Coffe Break - B2B Meetings

16h30

Breakthrough innovation Session

- Plenary

Chaired by Fabienne Venet, Hospices Civils de Lyon & Mélanie Denizot, Lyonbiopôle

16h30

The Vaccine Architect: Designing Antigen with Immunological Blueprints

Vincent Pavot

Head of Immunology Platform

Sanofi - France

Coline Sivelle

Protein Engineering Scientist

Sanofi - France

16h50

Exploiting the Complement system for directed therapy against Pseudomonas aeruginosa infections

Aubin Pitiot

Postdoctoral Fellow

Luxembourg Institute of Health - France

17h00

Development of novel genetic vaccine platforms for epidemic preparedness: from the idea to GMP production

Antonella Comforti

Principal Investigator

Takis Biotech - Italy

17h10

New antigenic urinary assay for BK polyomavirus

Etienne Brochot

Professor of Virology

CHU Amiens - France

17h20

New approaches for diagnosis and therapy by phage proteins

Mai Huong Chatain

CSO/CEO

Vetophage - France

17h30

The Cochlin LCCL Domain: A Novel Therapeutic Agent for Enhancing Host Innate Immunity during infection through Efferocytosis

Louise Courcol

PhD student

CIRI - France

17h40

Generation of a pan-specific anti-human influenza A Nanofitin for direct protective effect in respiratory tract

Perrine Jacquot

R&D Project Manager

Affilogics - France

17h50

Better antibodies against membrane proteins thanks to recombinant extracellular vesicles

Vincent Delauzun

Research Scientist

Cytobodx - France

18h00

End of DAY 1

DAY 2

Thursday, 28 November 2024

9h00

Welcome coffee

9h30

Opening lectures

- Plenary

Chaired by Nadia Khelef, Pasteur Institute

9h30

Progress in TB vaccine discovery and development

Willem Hanekom

Director

Africa Health Research Institute (AHRI) - South Africa

10h00

Shifts in pandemic medical countermeasures – Global Preparedness Monitoring Board

Sylvie Briand

Director

Pandemic and Epidemic Diseases Department
at the World Health Organization (WHO) - France

10h30

Coffe Break - B2B Meetings

11h00

Track 3 : Latest developments in Vaccines

- sponsored by Sanofi

Chaired by Daniel Larocque, Sanofi & Behazine Combadière, Sanofi

11h00

General view of latest vaccine developments by Sanofi and early stage immunology research

Behazine Combadiere

Global head of Early-stage Immunology

Sanofi - France

11h30

Advances in Immunological Memory: The Role of β-Glucan in Innate Immune Modulation

Jessica Quintin

Head of the Immunology of Fungal Infections Unit

Institut Pasteur - France

11h50

Development of the single-shot chikungunya vaccine IXCHIQ

Martina Schneider

Clinical Strategy Manager

Valneva - France

12h10

Q&A session

12h25

Lunch - Poster Presentation - B2B Meetings

14h00

Track 3 : Latest developments in Vaccines

- sponsored by Sanofi

Chaired by Lionel Cupillard, Boehringer Ingelheim Animal Health

14h00

Latest results for Metavac®-RSV, a mucosal bivalent live attenuated vaccine

Julia Dubois

Researcher scientist

Laboratoire VirPath, CIRI - France

14h20

Preparedness & reactiveness in the development of a new Blue Tongue Virus vaccine

Helene Gaude

Project Leader, Veterinary Public Health vaccines development

Boehringer Ingenheim Animal Health – France

14h40

A Novel Vaccine Against Neisseria gonorrhoea

Michael Kowarik

CSO

LimmaTech Biologics – Switzerland

15h00

Q&A session

15h15

Track 4 : Diagnostic Prognostic and theragnostic Biomarkers

- Plenary

Chaired by Nadia Khelef, Pasteur Institute

15h15

How a multiplex lateral flow immunoassay is helping clinicians worldwide combat antimicrobial resistance

Milovan Stankov-Pugès

CEO

NG Biotech - France

15h35

Unveiling Immune Insights: The Crucial Role of Immune Functional Assays (IFA) in Immunomonitoring

William Mouton

PhD, post-Doc

Hospices Civils de Lyon - France

15h55

Q&A session

16h10

Annoucemment of next year edition

16h20

 

End of CONGRESS