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Issue 16

The I V I Newsletter

June. 2007
Dear friends,
welcome to the 16th edition of The I V I Newsletter.

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1.
IVI UPDATE
 
- IVI Laboratory Science - Interview with Dr. Cecil Czerkinsky

Programs underway to develop novel technology platforms, vaccines
'IVI has good researchers and product development people in one place'

 

Dr. Cecil Czerkinsky, former Director of the Mucosal Immunology and Vaccinology division at INSERM (French National Institute of Health and Medical Research), joined the IVI in October 2005 as the Deputy Director General for Laboratory Sciences.
Dr. Czerkinsky has devoted his initial efforts to restructuring the laboratory division and to implementing new programs. This process requires instilling a research culture in the staff in order to motivate scientists and work towards common objectives. This entails the selection of sufficiently broad technology platforms to support highly focused multidisciplinary...


    
- IVI holds annual BOT meeting in Kolkata, India
   IVI held its annual meeting of the Board of Trustees (BOT) at the National Institute of Cholera    and Enteric Diseases (NICED) in Kolkata, India from March 6-8. The Board met in...
 

- IVI, GCEM sign agreement to build BSL3+ laboratory
   IVI and Green Cross Engineering Management (GCEM) signed on May 2 an agreement to build a    bio safety level 3+ (BSL3+) laboratory at IVI. The high containment lab facility will allow...

 

- Meeting held to place typhoid vaccination on global health agenda
   IVI co-sponsored an international meeting with the Merieux Foundation and the World Health    Organization on "Typhoid fever" a neglected disease: towards a vaccine introduction....

 
 

- Annual vaccinology course draws 100 from 26 countries
   IVI hosted 'the seventh International Advanced Course on Vaccinology for the Asia Pacific    Regions,' an annual course designed to help countries boost their capacity in the area...

 
  - International workshop at IVI discusses vaccines against influenza
   An international workshop on influenza was held at the IVI headquarters from 26-27 March 2007    to discuss global preparedness against possible pandemic influenza and ....
2.
PUBLICATIONS
 
- Annual Reports
 
- Kolkata report: Paving the Way for the Control of Cholera & Typhoid Fever (PDF)  
 
- Publications by IVI scientists
 
- Previous issues of the IVI Newsletter
  - PDVI Newsletters
3.
FRIENDS OF IVI
 
- Cartier Korea joins IVI Giving Club
   Cartier Korea, the local branch of the renowned French jeweler, has agreed to support IVI's    global efforts to make life-saving vaccines available to the world's poorest children....
- KEB Foundation sponsors IVI Vaccinology course
   The KEB Foundation has supported this year's IVI Advanced Vaccinology Course for the Asia    Pacific Region with a 30 million won ($32,000) donation to IVI in late 2006...
 
- Donors list

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