The International Symposium Chronic Viral Infections and Cancer, Openings for Vaccines will be held online on 16–17 December 2021, from 15:00 to 20:45.
The symposium is organised and supported by the International Society for Vaccines, Rīga Stradiņš University (Latvia), Peoples' Friendship University of Russia (Moscow, Russia), and the Papilloma Society (Russia).
The symposium will look at the progress in the studies of the molecular pathogenesis of chronic viral infections, mechanisms of human oncogenic viruses, such as the activity of viral oncoproteins, induction of genomic instability, support of chronic inflammation, and modulation of tumour microenvironment.
Particular attention will be paid to virus-induced alterations in the functions of immune system, induction of innate and adaptive immune responses including metabolic and immune responses to viral infections, as well as immunometabolism on the cellular level. An in-depth understanding of these processes would create new openings to the design of novel viral vaccines and immunotherapies.
Registration and abstract submission
The Programme Committee will review all the submitted abstracts, and select the highest quality submissions for oral or poster presentations at the symposium. All accepted abstracts will be published in a special issue of Infectious Agents and Cancer, BMC journal (Springer Nature), Q2 in Infectious Diseases; IF Scopus 4.3 edited by Dr Maria Isaguliants and Prof. Franco Maria Buonaguro.
Infectious Agents and Cancer website
- Programme
The sympoisum will be held on Zoom and divided into 5 sessions, which are further divided into 2-3 sections.
SESSION 1. MOLECULAR PATHOGENESIS OF CHRONIC VIRAL INFECTIONS
Section 1.1 Chronic viral infections and oxidative stress
Section 1.2 Metabolic signatures of chronic viral infectionsSESSION 2. CHRONIC VIRAL INFECTIONS AND CANCER
Section 2.1 Mechanisms of viral oncogenicity
Section 2.2 Chronic viral infections and genomic instability
Section 2.3 Viral infections and chronic inflammationSESSION 3. POSTER PRESENTATIONS (5 min oral presentations)
SESSION 4. IMMUNE RESPONSE TO CHRONIC VIRAL INFECTIONS AND CANCER
Section 4.1 Innate and adaptive immunity weak points
Section 4.2 Immunometabolism of chronic viral infections and cancerSESSION 5. APPROACHES TO VIRAL INFECTION AND CANCER CURE
Section 5.1 Novel viral infection and cancer treatments
Section 5.3 (Re)profiling of immune response with adjuvantsEach section will be opened by invited plenary lecture. Plenary lectures will be read by the renown experts in the field of virology, immunology and oncology (see www.techvac.org for names and topics).
The opening and closing lectures are already in the program, ten invited plenary lectures and eight 15-20 min oral presentations. An additional 20 oral and 20 poster presentations will be selected based on the abstracts submitted to the programme committee.
