Summit proceedings: Biomedical countermeasure development for emerging vector-borne viral diseases

Marcia A. Blackman, Mark A. Marchionni, John Gilly, Matthew Hepburn, Bruce L. Innis, Alan D.T. Barrett, Kent E. Kester, John R. Mascola, James F. Cummings, Thomas P. Monath, M. Cristina Cassetti, Jerome H. Kim, Melanie Saville, Stephen J. Thomas

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Abstract

Emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases are an expanding global threat to public health, security, and economies. Increasing populations, urbanization, deforestation, climate change, anti-vaccination movements, war, and international travel are some of the contributing factors to this trend. The recent Ebola, MERS-CoV, and Zika outbreaks demonstrated we are insufficiently prepared to respond with proven safe and effective countermeasures (i.e., vaccines and therapeutics). The State University of New York Upstate Medical University and the Trudeau Institute convened a summit of key opinion and thought leaders in the life sciences and biomedical research and development enterprises to explore global biopreparedness challenges, take an inventory of existing capabilities and capacities related to preparation and response, assess current “gaps,” and prospect what could be done to improve our position. Herein we describe the summit proceedings, “Translational Immunology Supporting Biomedical Countermeasure Development for Emerging Vector-borne Viral Diseases,” held October 2–3, 2018, at the Trudeau Institute in Saranac Lake, NY.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)6248-6254
Number of pages7
JournalVaccine
Volume37
Issue number43
DOIs
StatePublished - Oct 8 2019

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Molecular Medicine
  • General Immunology and Microbiology
  • General Veterinary
  • Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health
  • Infectious Diseases

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