The World Economic Forum Special Annual Meeting 2021 in Singapore will convene on 17-20 August. The meeting follows the success of the Forum’s virtual Davos Agenda in January, which brought together world leaders from government, business and society. The Special Annual Meeting 2021 was scheduled for 25-28 May. Although the World Economic Forum and Government of Singapore remain confident of the measures in place to ensure a safe and effective meeting, and local transmission of COVID-19 in Singapore remains at negligible…

The conference aims to empower future generations in different fields of Vaccinology to explore exciting research outcomes that lie in tune with the objectives and theme of this exciting event. It further helps you enhance your understanding of commercial, scientific and regulatory issues that affect strategic decision making in the Vaccine Sector. This global conference sets the stage for brain-storming discussions among the participants with its enriching Q&A sessions, round table discussions and technical workshops and provides know-how of the…

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, and the National Institutes of Health, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases are announcing a public workshop entitled “Science and Regulation of Bacteriophage Therapy.” The purpose of the public workshop is to exchange information with the medical and scientific community about the regulatory and scientific issues associated with bacteriophage therapy. Click here to learn more. Click here to view the agenda. Click here to register.

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The ASM/ESCMID Joint Conference on Drug Development to Meet the Challenge of Antimicrobial Resistance, scheduled to take place on Sept. 1-4, 2020 in Dublin, Ireland, has been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit the ESCMID website for more details. The 2021 conference will take place on Sept. 21-24 in Boston, Mass. Co-sponsored by the American Society for Microbiology (ASM) and the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID), this multidisciplinary meeting will address the challenges, opportunities and current requirements for antimicrobial…

The scientific sessions include Genomics and gene regulation; Antimicrobial tolerance; Host-Pathogen interactions; Metabolism and Physiology; Harnessing the Potential of Pseudomonas species; Evolution and Coevolution; Ecology; and Multi-species Interactions. Plenary Speaker: Fiona Brinkman, Canada, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Keynote Speakers: Joseph Bondy-Denomy, Paul Turner, Barbara Kazmierczak, Gregg Beckham, Wei Huang, Jenna Gallie, Britt Koskella, and Jessica Scoffield Click here to learn more. Click here to view the agenda. Click here to register.

The North American Cystic Fibrosis Conference (NACFC) is organized by the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (CFF).  The CFF 2021 onsite medical conference will be held from September 30 - October 2, 2021, in San Antonio Texas.  Additional details forthcoming. Click here to learn more.

The emergence and spread of bacteria resistant to many drug classes seriously threaten all branches of modern medicine. There is currently no course providing advanced instruction on antibiotics and resistance. The specific goal of ICARe is to bring leaders in academics and industry together with trained scientists at the dawn of their careers. Cutting-edge approaches for the study of resistance and antibiotic discovery will be examined. The objective of ICARe is to train the next generation of scientists implicated in…