1st workshop
In January 2010 the Novo Nordisk Foundation sponsored a workshop held in Copenhagen.
At this workshop, an international consortium called Optimmunize was established to investigate the
Non-Specific Effects, NSE, and sex-differential effects of vaccines.
The proceedings paper from the 1st workshop: "Sex differences in the vaccine-specific and non-targeted effects of vaccines"
Workshop participants | |
Peter Aaby | Indepth Network, Apartado 861, 1004 Bissau Codex, Guinea-Bissau |
Gert Almind | Novo Nordisk Foundation, Copenhagen, Denmark |
Christine Stabell Benn | Bandim Health Project, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark |
Jacobus Boomsma | University of Copenhagen |
Mogens Claesson | University of Copenhagen |
Hazel Dockrell | London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine |
Eleanor N Fish | University Health Network & Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada |
Katie L Flanagan | MRC Laboratories, The Gambia |
Kosuke Kawai | Harvard School of Public Health, USA |
Sabra L Klein | Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, The Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA |
Henrik Leffers | University of Copenhagen |
Arnaud Marchant | Institute for Medical Immunology, Université Libre de Bruxelles, Bruxelles, Belgium |
Ian Marriott | Department of Biology, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, USA |
Jennifer Moisi | Centre for Geographic Medicine, Kilifi, Kenya |
Andrew Prentice | International Nutrition Group, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK and Keneba, The Gambia |
Liisa Selin | University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA, USA |
Niels-Erik Skakkebæk | Department of Growth and Reproduction, Rigshospitalet, Copenhagen, Denmark |
Anita Van Den Biggela | University of Western Australia |
Hilton Whittle | MRC Laboratories, PO Box 273, Fajara, The Gambia |
Maria Yazdanbakhsh | Leiden University Medical Centre, The Netherlands |