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About the meeting

This annual meeting is the most important scientific event of the Pasteur Network and it is our goal to attract interest from colleagues working in related areas.

The 2-day conference includes Four Minisymposia and Poster Sessions, and is open to all scientists and students working in different organizations, including university, researc...(read more)

News

2011-01-11

BMC Proceedings and speakers' presentations available

Abstracts of the meeting have been published in BMC Proceedings and some speakers' presentations (pdf files) are available in our Media Gallery.

2010-12-07

Thank you for your participation and see you in Autumn 2011 in Paris

The 2010 Annual Scientific Meeting of the Institut Pasteur International Network (IPIN) held at the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong (HKU) was a great success.

The meeting started with a Keynote lecture given by Professor Françoise Barré-Sinoussi, Nobel Laureate in 2008 for the discovery of HIV. Three thematic sessions addressed current research in the areas of vaccine preventable diseases, neglected diseases, and networking to improve health. During this latter session, lectures were delivered by directors of Forgarty International Center NIH, the Riken and the Wellcome Trust. The final session was organized in conjunction with the Centre for the Humanities and Medicine of HKU on the “Nature of Altruism”.

Two workshops on Clinical Research and Scientific Expertise were organized and a workgroup on these themes will be created in early 2011.

The meeting also marked the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the Hong Kong University-Pasteur Research Centre (HKU-PRC). During the opening ceremony, Professor Alice Dautry, President of Insitut Pasteur and Professor Paul KH Tam, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President of HKU praised the results of this partnership and paid tribute to the late chairman of HKU-PRC, Dr James Ziang Mien Kung.

The Scientific Meeting will take place in Paris in Autumn 2011. The next Meetings were foreseen to take place at the Institut Pasteur in Madagascar in 2012 and at the Institut Pasteur in Tunis in 2013.

2010-12-05

Photo albums available

Dear Colleagues and Distinguished invited speakers,

Photo albums of:

The Annual Scientific Meeting held at the Li Ka Shing Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong on November 22-23, 2010
The Dinner at the Jumbo Kingdom restaurant on November 23, 2010
The Council of Directors held at the main campus of The University of Hong Kong on November 25, 2010

Are now available!

Please visit our Media gallery to view and download these photos.

Programme

08:00-08:30

Registration

08:30-09:00

Welcome & Opening Address

Paul Tam

Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Vice-President, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR

Alice Dautry

President, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

09:00-09:50

Session 1: Keynote Lecture

L01 - HIV/AIDS, more than 25 years later: which challenges remain?
Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (Institut Pasteur, France)
Presentation (pdf file)

09:50-10:10

Session 2: Vaccine Preventable Diseases

O01 - Tuberculosis but not Immune Reconstitution Inflammatory Syndrome (IRIS) prevents early and late NK cell degranulation reconstitution in HIV/TB co-infected patients
Polidy Pean et al. (Institut Pasteur Cambodia, Cambodia)

10:10-10:40

L02 - The development of an AIDS mucosal vaccine
Zhiwei Chen (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

10:40-11:10

Break

11:10-11h40

L03 - Universal vaccine for influenza A virus
Leo LM Poon (University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR)
Presentation (pdf file)

11:40-12:00

O02 - NS1-mediated delay of immune activation contributes to influenza A virulence in ferrets
Isabelle Meunier, Veronika von Messling (INRS-Institut Armand-Frappier, University of Quebec, Laval, Canada)

12:00-12:20

O03 - Genetic determinants of hepatitis B vaccine response
Eileen Png et al. (Genome Institute of Singapore, Singapore)

12:20-12:50

L04 - Vaccines for Neglected Diseases: Challenges and Opportunities
Allan Saul (Novartis Vaccines Institute for Global Health, Italy)

12:40-14:30

Lunch and Poster Session

14:30-15:00

Session 3: Neglected Diseases

L05 - Buruli ulcer disease: Challenges and Opportunities for Institut Pasteur International Network
Sara Eyangoh (Centre Pasteur du Cameroun, Yaoundé, Cameroon)
Presentation (pdf file)

15:00-15:20

O04 - Asian Network for Molecular diagnosis of primary immunodeficiencies
Yu Lung Lau (LKS Faculty of Medicine, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)

15:20-15:40

O05 – Characterization of immunomodulatory activity of eIF4A protein
Mourad Barhoumi (Institut Pasteur de Tunis, Tunisia)

15:40-16:00

O06 – Novel strategy using live non‐pathogenic Leishmania expressing selected parasite antigens as a candidate vaccine for leishmaniasis
Sima Rafati (Pasteur Institute of Ian, Tehran, Iran)

16:00-16:30

Break

16:30-16:50

O07 - Trypanosoma cruzi produces a population of tRNA-derived small RNAs which are recruited to specific cytoplasmic granules and secreted to the extracellular medium
MR Garcia Silva (Institut Pasteur de Montevideo, Uruguay)

16:50-17:10

O08 - Chikungunya, a new threat propagated by the cosmopolite Aedes albopictus
Marie Vazeille et al. (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)

17:10-17:40

L06 - Phenomic technologies in drug discovery of Neglected Diseases
Ulf Nehrbass (Institut Pasteur-Korea, Korea)

17:40-20:30

Poster Session with refreshments

09:00-09:30

Session 4: Networking to Improve Health

L07 - PREDICT - Surveillance and Prediction for Emerging pathogens of Wildlife
William Karesh (EcoHealth Alliance, New York, USA)

09:30-09:50

O09 – Viral and bacterial etiologies of community-acquired acute lower respiratory infections among hospitalized Cambodian patients
Sirenda Vong et al. (Institut Pasteur in Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia)

09:50-10:20

L08 - Networking the Leishmania research community for the development of novel anti-leishmanial intervention strategies
Gerald F Spaeth (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)

10:20-10:40

O10 - The J-GRID as a new player of networking
Yoshiyuki Nagai, Yoshiko Okamoto (RIKEN Center of Research Network for Infectious Diseases (CRNID), Tokyo, Japan; Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Saitama, Japan)

10:40-11:10

Break

11:10-11:40

L09 - Infectious diseases and clinical research networks – A good marriage?
Jeremy J Farrar (Oxford University Clinical Research Unit, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
Presentation (pdf file)

11:40-12:00

O11 - Early (2 weeks) vs. late (8 weeks) initiation of highly active antiretroviral treatment (HAART) significantly enhances survival of severely immunosuppressed HIV-infected adults with newly diagnosed tuberculosis: results of the CAMELIA clinical trial
François-Xavier Blanc, Laurence Borand et al. (Bicêtre Hospital, Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France; Institut Pasteur in Cambodia, Phnom Penh, Cambodia)

12:00-12:30

L10 - Global Health Research Collaborations: Lessons from the Fogarty International Center
Roger Glass (Fogarty International Center, Bethesda, USA)
Presentation (pdf file)

12:30-16:00