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Notice to Readers: Twelfth Annual Conference on Vaccine Research
CDC and 11 other national and international agencies and organizations will collaborate with the National Foundation
for Infectious Diseases in sponsoring the Twelfth Annual Conference on Vaccine Research, April 27--29, 2009, at the
Marriott Waterfront Hotel, Baltimore, Maryland. The conference is the largest scientific forum devoted exclusively to the research
and development of all vaccines and related technologies for prevention and treatment of disease through immunization.
The conference brings together the diverse fields of human and veterinary vaccinology to encourage cross-fertilization of ideas
and approaches among researchers otherwise focused on specific diseases or methods.
Twenty invited speakers at five symposia will discuss vaccine safety, immunization programs for global health,
synergy between veterinary and human vaccine development, and tuberculosis and malaria vaccines. Six oral sessions and posters
will include presentations selected through peer review from among submitted abstracts.
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