Vaccines Today and Tomorrow and Opening OIBC Ceremony

on Monday 12 April 1999 from 9.15am to 5.00pm at Westwood Country Hotel, Hinksey Hill Top, Oxford OX1 5BG

§ Chairman: Prof David Warrell (Centre for Tropical Medicine, Oxford U)

§ Prof Peter Beverley (Edward Jenner Institute for Vaccine Research, Compton): Vaccine Research Strategies

§ Dr Ulrich Desselberger (Addenbrooke's Hospital Cambridge U): Rotavirus vaccines

Arrival of HRH The Princess Royal

Opening Ceremony. Chairman Lord Walton (Patron of OIBC): Professor Charles Pasternak (Director of OIBC); HRH The Princess Royal; HRH The Princess Chulabhorn: The Chulabhorn Research Institute, Bangkok: A Model for International Cooperation

§ Dr Philip Minor (National Institute for Biological Standards and Control, South Mimms): Eradicating polio worldwide

§ Prof David Goldblatt (Institute of Child Health, London U): Vaccines to prevent bacterial meningitis and pneumonia

§ Chairman: Prof Sir Anthony Epstein (Nuffield Dept of Clinical Medicine, Oxford U).

§ Dr Francis Andre (SmithKline Beecham): Hepatitis vaccines and general regulatory problems

§ Prof Andrew McMichael (Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford U): Potential for HIV vaccines

§ Dr Joerg Schneider (Institute of Molecular Medicine, Oxford U): Malaria vaccines

§ Prof Onesmo ole-MoiYoi (ILRI and Kenyatta U, Nairobi): Theileria parva vaccine as a novel model for malaria

§ Prof Angus Dalgleish (St George's Hospital Medical School, London): Cancer vaccines