1st Symposium, Geneva Center for Emerging Viral Diseases

03.11.2016 – 04.11.2016

This two-day symposium will provide participants with a unique opportunity to foster exchanges and collaborations around high-level interventions given by world-class specialists on emerging viral diseases. A diverse range of themes will be discussed including: the key biological characteristics that promote the spread of these viral agents, recent epidemiological trends, clinical and public health impact of emerging viral diseases, new vaccines and medical strategies and many more.

Registration by November 1, 2016

Organisers:
Prof. Laurent Kaiser, Dr Flaminia Olearo, Dr Pauline Vetter
(Faculty of Medicine, University of Geneva - Division of Infectious Diseases & Laboratory of Virology, HUG)
Prof. Daniel Bausch (WHO)

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Side Event: Public conference
Thursday November 3, 18h30 (Uni Dufour)

Richard PRESTON, writer and journalist, Princeton USA

«Emerging Monsters? A journalist in the World of Viruses»
(in English, with simultaneous translation into French)
More information here: www.unige.ch/medecine/Preston

Lieu

Muséum d'histoire naturelle, Genève

Fichiers joints

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