The 10th Annual Symposium for the Center for Emerging and Neglected Diseases (CEND) will be held on Friday, January 12, 2018 from 9:00AM-5:30PM in Room 245 Li Ka Shing Center. The theme for this year will be ”Confronting Persistent Epidemics” with the following speaker lineup:
- Andy Camilli | Tufts University
- Kimberley Seed | University of California, Berkeley
- Thierry Diagana | Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research
- Eric Easom | AN2 Therapeutics
- Sophien Kamoun | The Sainsbury Laboratory
- Nick Talbot | University of Exeter
- Barbara Valent | Kansas State University
- Alfred Andama | Makerere University
- Jonathan Yewdell | National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
- Andrew Mehle | University of Wisconsin- Madison
- Stacey Schultz-Cherry | St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital
Some of the topics that will be covered include: influenza, viral infection, tuberculosis, rice blast disease, biotech, cholera among others.
For more information visit CEND’s website. To register, visit here.