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Preliminary Agenda

Thursday, September 18, 2008

8:30 am NIAID Welcome Address
Catherine, Laughlin, Ph.D. (NIAID)
8:35 am NIAID Resources and Opportunities for Dengue Research
Cristina Cassetti, Ph.D. (NIAID)
Session I: Animal Models to Study Dengue Pathogenesis
Chairs: Eva Harris and Rebeca Rico-Hesse
8:50 am Human Pathogenesis and Mouse Models
Alan Rothman, M.D. (University of Massachusetts Medical School)
9:30 am Dengue Disease and Immunity in Humanized Mice
Rebeca Rico-Hesse, Ph.D., M.P.H. (Southwest Foundation for Biomedical Research)
10:00 am Dengue Viral Pathogenesis and Immune Response in Humanized (RAG-hu) Mice
Ramesh Akkina, Ph.D. (Colorado State University)
10:30 am Morning Break
11:00 am The AG129 Mouse Model for Dengue Virus Infection and Disease
Eva Harris, Ph.D. (University of California, Berkeley)
11:30 am A Mouse Model to Investigate T-cell Response to Dengue Virus
Sujan Shresta, Ph.D. (La Jolla Institute for Allergy and Immunology)
12:00 am Discussion
12:30 pm Lunch break
2:00 pm The Rhesus Macaque Model of DHF/DSS: How Close Are We to Human Disease?
Anna Durbin, M.D. (Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health)
2:30 pm Passive Immunization in Monkeys Using Monoclonal Antibodies Against Dengue Virus
Ana Goncalvez, Ph.D. (Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, NIAID)
3:00 pm Yucatan Miniature Swine as an Immunogenicity and Infection Model for Dengue
Tim Burgess (Naval Medical Research Center)
3:00 pm Discussion
4:00 pm Afternoon Break
Session II: Animal Models to Evaluate Dengue Vaccines and Therapeutics
Chairs: Anna Durbin and Stephen Whitehead
4:30 pm Evaluation of Attenuated Viruses in Mice and Monkeys
Stephen Whitehead, Ph.D. (Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, NIAID)
5:00 pm Dengue Vaccine, Monkey Animal Models and Sanofi Pasteur R&D Experience
Thierry Decelle, DVM (Sanofi Pasteur)
5:30 pm Discussion
6:00 pm Adjourn

Friday, September 19, 2008

Session II, Continued: Animal Models to Evaluate Dengue Vaccines and Therapeutics
Chairs: Anna Durbin and Steve Whitehead
8:30 am Evaluation of Reproductive Toxicity of a Dengue Live-attenuated Vaccine Candidate in Mice
Sandra Giannini, Ph.D. (GlaxoSmithKline)
9:00 am Dengue Vaccine Candidate Characterization Using Monkeys
Kenneth Eckels, Ph.D. (Walter Reed Army Institute of Research)
9:30 am Evaluation of Anti-viral Drug Candidates in Dengue Mouse Models
Wouter Schul, Ph.D. (Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases)
10:00 am FDA Perspective
Lewis Markoff, M.D. (CBER, FDA)
10:15 am Morning Break
Session III: Roundtable Discussion and Group Recommendations
Chairs: Cristina Cassetti and John Roehrig
10:30 am Summary of NHP models
Anna Durbin and Stephen Whitehead
11:00 am Summary of Models for Vaccines
Stephen Whitehead and Anna Durbin
11:30 am Summary of Pathogenesis
Scott Halstead and Alan Rothman
12:00 pm Pick Up Box Lunch
12:30 pm Summary of Murine Models
Eva Harris, Rebeca Rico-Hesse and Leonard Schultz
1:00 pm Summary of Models for Therapeutics
Wouter Schul and Michael Diamond
1:30 pm Discussion
2:30 pm Adjourn
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Meeting Contact
Dr. Cristina Cassetti
Phone: 301-451-3745
E-mail:
ccassetti@niaid.nih.gov
Meeting Sponsor
Office of Rare Diseases