São Paulo School of Advanced Sciences on Vaccines: an overview

• Published in: Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases
• Main Authors: Sara Sorgi, Vivian Bonezi, Mariana R. Dominguez, Alba Marina Gimenez, Irina Dobrescu, Silvia Boscardin, Helder I. Nakaya, Daniel Y. Bargieri, Irene S. Soares, Eduardo L. V. Silveira
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: SciELO 2020
• Subjects: Vaccine history; WHO priorities and challenges; Immune responses; Antigen search; Delivery systems and strategies; Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine; RC955-962; Toxicology. Poisons; RA1190-1270; Zoology; QL1-991; Arctic
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1590/1678-9199-jvatitd-2019-0061; https://doaj.org/article/ac7a25fd4eb74244a022e52fd0000f1b

Abstract Two years ago, we held an exciting event entitled the São Paulo School of Advanced Sciences on Vaccines (SPSASV). Sixty-eight Ph.D. students, postdoctoral fellows and independent researchers from 37 different countries met at the Mendes Plaza Hotel located in the city of Santos, SP - Brazil to discuss the challenges and the new frontiers of vaccinology. The SPSASV provided a critical and comprehensive view of vaccine research from basics to the current state-of-the-art techniques performed worldwide. For 10 days, we discussed all the aspects of vaccine development in 36 lectures, 53 oral presentations and 2 poster sessions. At the end of the course, participants were further encouraged to present a model of a grant proposal related to vaccine development against individual pathogens. Among the targeted pathogens were viruses (Chikungunya, HIV, RSV, and Influenza), bacteria (Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Streptococcus pyogenes), parasites (Plasmodium falciparum or Plasmodium vivax), and the worm Strongyloides stercoralis. This report highlights some of the knowledge shared at the SPSASV.