Flanders Vaccine

Immunity for Health 2025

1–2 Oct 2025 | RodeBol Events

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Event agenda

Thursday, 2 October 2025

09:40 - 10:10

Keynote: Combatting emerging viruses in a changing world - Prof. Dr. Ab Osterhaus, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover

An overview will be given of emerging virus infections that have had a major impact on human and animal populations in the past decades: from predisposing factors and virus discovery to intervention strategies.

10:10 - 10:35

Archetypes of pathogens with pandemic potential - Prof. Dr. Niel Hens, University of Hasselt & Antwerp

In this work, Prof. Dr. Niel Hens will review key epidemiological parameters of 19 pathogens with pandemic potential and use an unsupervised clustering approach to group them into six distinct epidemiological archetypes.

10:35 - 11:00

11:00 - 11:30

12:30 - 14:00

Lunch & Networking

Lunch & 1-1 Meetings via the B2Match networking app

14:00 - 14:20

14:20 - 14:40

Closing the Evidence Gap: Advancing Infant and Maternal Mpox Vaccination in the DRC: A Phase 3 Trial on MVA-BN - Ynke Larivière, UAntwerp

This presentation will provide an overview of the PregInPoxVac project, a Phase 3 vaccine trial taking place in Boende, DRC.

15:00 - 15:30

15:30 - 16:00

16:20 - 16:45

17:00 - 18:00

Reception & Networking

Enjoy a drink and a bite & 1-1 Meetings via the B2Match networking app