VaxInlive Symposia serve as a dynamic discussion platform providing an opportunity to passionate researchers from all around the globe to get engaged in scientific discourse. VaxInlive 2024 is a continuation series of Symposia (2013, 2014, 2015, 2018, 2019, 2021, and 2022), which was conducted in the context of the LIVE (Leading International Vaccinology Education) Master Erasmus+ Mundus Joint Master´s Degree. The 1st promotion of LIVE started in September 2016. As a living story of VaxInlive symposia, the VaxInlive 2024 symposium is an initiative to build a collaborative discussion platform for Researchers and Vaccinologists across the globe to induce exciting exchanges of knowledge about infectious diseases and vaccines. VaxInlive symposium is an amalgamation of the efforts towards breaking the barriers and putting forth the scientific expertise to engage researchers from different nationalities. Similar to one of the objectives of Master LIVE, which focuses on the idea of breaking boundaries by recruiting students from all over the world with different nationalities. VaxInlive organizing committee is a group of enthusiastic and passionate scientists who are motivated to expand knowledge by bringing worldwide expertise on one platform.  

List of speakers edition 2022

  • Katalin KARIKO - Nobel Prize in Medicine
  • Frank STRUYF - Janssen Vaccines
  • Kai DALLMEIER - University of Leuven
  • Dennis CHRISTENSEN - Croda, Denmark
  • Bart VAN MEERBERGEN - Vaccinopolis, Antwerp
  • Bruno SPEDER - hVivo
  • Meta ROESTENBERG - Leiden University, Medical center
  • Bert SCHEPENS - VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology
  • Giovanni CHECCUCCI LISI - Sanofi
  • lke DE BOECK - University of Antwerp
  • Guy CALJON - LMPH, University of Antwerp
  • Philippe SELHORST - Institute of Tropical Medicine, Antwerp
  • Sebastiaan THEUNS - PathoSense

List of speakers edition 2021

  • Mark DOHERTY - Medical Manager, GSK
  • Simon GRAHAM - Professor & Group Leader, The Pirbright Institute
  • Christine CZERNIAK - Technical Lead for Infodemic Management, WHO
  • Tim NGUYEN - Head of unit high impact events preparedness WHO
  • Sara RUBINELLI - Professor of Health Communication, University of Lucerne
  • Saddam Mohammed IBRAHIM - Vaccinologists, University of Gondar
  • Lynette PHUONG - Technical Officer for Infodemic Management, WHO
  • Cherstyn HURLEY - National Immunisation programme publications manager, Public Health England
  • Avichal MAHAJAN - Technical Officer for Data Management, WHO
  • Françoise BARRÉ-SINOUSSI - Senior Scientist, Nobel Prize Laureate in Medicine and Physiology, Pasteur Institute
  • Rajko RELJIC - Professor in Immunology, Institute for Infection and Immunity, St George’s University of London (UK)
  • Tiago ROCCA - Head of Strategic Partnerships and Business Development, Instituto Butantan
  • Patrícia GONZALEZ-DIAS - PhD Student, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences - Universidade de São Paulo
  • Paul ANZIANI - PhD Student, CIFRE Sanofi
  • Louis BOURLON - PhD StudentCIFRE Sanofi
  • Hilde DEPRAETERE - Director of Operations, European Vaccine Initiative
  • Eddie SUVARNAPUNYA - Infectious diseases researcher, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR)
  • Jeffrey BETHONY - Professor of Microbiology, Immunology and Tropical Medicine, George Washington University
  • Adrian WILDFIRE - Director, Scientific and Business Strategy, Open Orphan / hVIVO

List of speakers edition 2019

  • Karin LORÉ - Group leader, Division of Immunology and Allergy, Dept of Medicine, Karolinska Institutet
  • Pierre VAN DAMME - Professor and former head of Vaccine & Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp
  • Nele BERTHELS - Clinical Assessor, Department DG PRE authorisation / Assessors Division / Clinical Entity, Agency for Medicines and Health Products (FAMHP), Brussels
  • Benson OGUNJIMI - Assistant Professor, Vaccine and Infectious Disease Institute, University of Antwerp
  • Kai DALLMEIER - Research Expert Virology of the Laboratory of Virology and Chemotherapy, Rega Institute
  • Paul DUPREX - Director of the Center for Vaccine Research, University of Pittsburgh
  • Nancy DEZUTTER - Lead Vaccine Development Leader Older Adult Immunization at GSK Vaccine
  • Cyril BARBEZANGE - Senior virologist Belgium National Influenza Centre and Viral Diseases Service, Sciensano
  • Xavier SAELENS - Professor and Principal Investigator, VIB-UGent Center for Medical Biotechnology
  • Margarita DEL VAL - Viral Immunology Unit, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid (UAM) & Spanish National Research Council
  • Stéphane PAUL - Professor Immunology & Vaccinology, Head of clinical Immunology lab and co-Director of CIC1466 Clinical Center in Vaccinology Saint-Etienne
  • Alvaro ACOSTA-SERRANO - Senior Lecturer in Parasite and Vector Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
  • Bernd EISELE M.D. - CEO Vakzine Projekt Management GmbH
  • Gemma MONCUNILL - co-PI, ISGlobal Malaria Immunology group