Transforming Immunity: Cutting-Edge Advances in Vaccine Science (N3)
May 16-19, 2027  | Fairmont Hotel Vancouver, Vancouver, BC, Canada
Saranya Sridhar, Debora Marks and Teresa Lambe
* Session Chair † Invited but not yet accepted | Program current as of December 16, 2025 9 AM | For the most up-to-date details, visit https://www.keystonesymposia.org
Sunday, May 16, 2027
4:00–8:00 PM Registration
6:00–8:00 PM Welcome Mixer
Monday, May 17, 2027
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast
8:00–8:10 AM Welcome Remarks (Joint)
8:10–9:00 AM Keynote Address (Joint)
  Michel C. Nussenzweig †, HHMI/Rockefeller University
Immune Strategies to Combat Infectious Diseases: What Works and What Doesn't
 
9:00–11:15 AM Transformative Technologies for Infectious Disease Therapeutics and Vaccines (Joint)
  Debora Marks, Harvard Medical School
Beating Viruses at their Own Game
 
  Kevin Wiehe †, Duke University
Mutation Guided Immunogen Design
 
  Fernando Ulloa Montoya †, Sanofi
AI-Guided mRNA Vaccines Design
 
  Darrell J. Irvine †, Scripps Research Institute
Harnessing Novel Vaccine Dosing and Adjuvant Strategies
 
  Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
 
9:30–9:50 AM Coffee Break
11:15–12:15 PM Panel Discussion: Vaccine Hesitancy and Distrust (Joint)
11:15–1:00 PM Poster Setup
11:15–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing
2:30–4:30 PM Symposia Spotlight 1: Late-breaking research presentations selected from abstract submissions
  Short Talks Chosen from Abstracts
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available
5:00–7:00 PM Designing Precision Vaccines
  Bali Pulendran †, Stanford University School of Medicine
Next Generation Immunology to Design Precision Vaccines
 
  Galit Alter †, AstraZeneca
Systems Immunology for Precision Vaccinology
 
  Sarah Teichmann †, Cambridge University
Personalized Vaccination: Using the Human Immune Atlas to decipher immunity
 
  Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
 
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Dinner
7:30–10:00 PM Posters
Tuesday, May 18, 2027
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast
8:00–11:00 AM Tissue Targeting Vaccines
  Laura K. Mackay †, University of Melbourne
Protection against Respiratory Pathogens: Role of Tissue-Resident Immunity
 
  Mala K. Maini †, University College London
Protection against Hepatitis B: Compartmentalized Tissue-Specific Immunity
 
  Ali H Ellebedy †, Washington University School of Medicine
Big and Juicy Lymph Nodes: Germinal Centers for Vaccine-Induced Immunity
 
  Barbara L. Shacklett †, University of California, Davis
Genital Mucosal Immunity: T-cell immunity to HIV
 
  Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break
11:00–12:00 PM Panel Discussion 2: Advances in Regulatory Framework for Combination Vaccines
11:00–1:00 PM Poster Setup
11:00–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
1:00–10:00 PM Poster Viewing
3:00–4:30 PM Career Roundtable
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available
5:00–7:00 PM Vaccines for Global Health
  Simon J. Draper †, University of Oxford
New Malaria Vaccines: A Changing World
 
  Thomas J. Scriba †, University of Cape Town
A New TB Vaccine: Results of the M72/AS01B Phase 3 Trial
 
  Andrea Carfi †, Moderna
mRNA Vaccines against Mpox
 
  Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
 
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Dinner
7:30–10:00 PM Posters
Wednesday, May 19, 2027
7:00–8:00 AM Breakfast
8:00–11:00 AM New Frontiers of Vaccines: Cancer, Allergy and Beyond
  Ugur Sahin †, BioNTech
Therapeutic Cancer Vaccines
 
  Luke A. J. O'Neill †, Trinity Biomedical Sciences Institute
Trained Immunity: Mechanisms of Non-Specific effects of BCG Vaccination
 
  Jeffrey A. Hubbell †, University of Chicago
Synthetic Antigen Design for Tolerogenic Vaccines
 
  Anthony L Cunningham †, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research
Vaccines for Neurological Diseases: Can Shingles Vaccine Prevent Dementia
 
  Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
 
9:00–9:20 AM Coffee Break
11:00–12:00 PM Panel Discussion 3: Academic-Industry Collaborations: Ways to Make it Work
11:00–5:00 PM On Own for Lunch
2:30–4:30 PM Symposia Spotlight 2: Late-breaking research presentations selected from abstract submissions
  Short Talks Chosen from Abstracts
 
4:30–5:00 PM Coffee Available
5:00–6:45 PM What are the Next Generation Methodologies to Revolutionize Vaccine Development?
  Tor Biering-Sørensen †, University of Copenhagen
Real-World Individual Randomized Clinical Trials: FLUNITY
 
  Corrina Pavetto †, Cidara Therapeutics, Inc.
Antibody Drug Conjugates: A New Technology for Infectious Disease Prophylaxis
 
  Christopher O Barnes †, Stanford University
Structural Basis of Vaccine immunogenicity
 
  Short Talk(s) Chosen from Abstracts
 
6:45–7:00 PM Meeting Wrap-Up: Outcomes and Future Directions
7:00–8:00 PM Social Hour with Dinner
7:30–10:00 PM Posters
Thursday, May 20, 2027
12:00–11:59 PM Departure