Instruct-ERIC Events

PRP@CERIC Events - Pandemic preparedness: Achievements, current challenges, and new frontiers

Conference

Date: 11-Nov-2024 to 13-Nov-2024

Instruct Partner

The "Pandemic preparedness: Achievements, current challenges, and new frontiers" conference, funded by PRP@CERIC project, provides an overview of recent pathogen research findings, methodologies, instruments, and multidisciplinary approaches functional to pandemic preparedness. The multiple focus of the event encompasses prevention, surveillance, detection, drug discovery and treatment.

The central topics of the conference include:

• Emerging and re-emerging viruses with pandemic potential
• Risk of viral zoonoses and its mitigation
• Diagnostics, surveillance and capacity building in resources limited settings
• Immunization and preventive approaches
• Drug discovery: stocking the shelves for the next pandemic
• Biosafety and Biosecurity when dealing with viral infections
• Multidisciplinary approaches, infrastructure, and cooperation
• Future challenges in pandemic preparedness

Abstract submission: 18th August 2024

Early registration: 31st August 2024

Regular registration: 31st October 2024

Conference Date: 11-13 November 2024

Find out more and register here.

Instruct-IT lead Lucia Banci of CERM/CIRMMP will be giving a talk on the role of structural biology in pandemic preparedness, with experience from the NMR facility available through Instruct-ERIC.