20th International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases in the Pacific Rim Organized by the United States-Japan Cooperative Medical Sciences Program (USJCMSP)

USJCMSP AIDS, ARI, Cancer, Hepatitis, Immunology and Viral Diseases Panels; K Gayle Bernabe; Kristina T Lu; F Gray Handley; Diane E Griffin; Ichiro Kurane; Aikichi Iwamoto; George F Gao; Florian Krammer

doi:10.3390/vaccines7020035

20th International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases in the Pacific Rim Organized by the United States-Japan Cooperative Medical Sciences Program (USJCMSP)

Vaccines (Basel). 2019 Apr 2;7(2):35. doi: 10.3390/vaccines7020035.

Authors

USJCMSP AIDS, ARI, Cancer, Hepatitis, Immunology and Viral Diseases Panels¹; K Gayle Bernabe², Kristina T Lu³, F Gray Handley⁴, Diane E Griffin⁵, Ichiro Kurane⁶, Aikichi Iwamoto⁷, George F Gao⁸, Florian Krammer⁹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA. lukr@mail.nih.gov.
² Office of Global Research, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. handleygr@niaid.nih.gov.
³ Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. lukr@mail.nih.gov.
⁴ Office of the Director, NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. handleygr@niaid.nih.gov.
⁵ Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. dgriffi6@jhmi.edu.
⁶ National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 162-8640, Japan. kurane@niid.go.jp.
⁷ Department of Research Promotion, Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 100-0004, Japan. aikichi@zj9.so-net.ne.jp.
⁸ CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Chinese Academy of Sciences Institute of Microbiology, Beijing 100101, China. gaof@im.ac.cn.
⁹ Department of Microbiology, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA. florian.krammer@mssm.edu.

Abstract

The 20th International Conference on Emerging Infectious Diseases in the Pacific Rim to3ok place in Shenzhen, China on January 8⁻9, 2018 followed by meetings of the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS)/immunology, acute respiratory infections, cancer, hepatitis, and viral diseases panels on January 10⁻11. The conference was organized as part of the United States-Japan Cooperative Medical Sciences Program (USJCMSP) by the Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) and the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH) and was locally hosted by the Shenzhen Third People's Hospital and the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Institute of Microbiology. The conference provides the basis for networking and fostering of collaboration opportunities between researchers in Southeast Asia and the United States based on the scientific and interactive platform of the USJCMSP and takes place in the region on an annual basis. This report summarizes the discussions and conclusions from the conference.

Keywords: emerging infectious diseases; pacific rim.

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Congress