Meeting report: Global vaccine and immunization research forum, 2018

Proceedings of the Tenth Global Vaccine Research Forum and Parallel Satellite Symposia

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Intradermal immunization: an alternative route for vaccine administration. Articles as per sessions meeting report.

The global forum on bioethics in research meeting, “ethics of research in pregnancy”: emerging consensus themes and outputs

Research during pregnancy is affected by multiple ethical challenges which have not received sufficient international attention and consideration from the bioethics, clinical, and policymaking communities working together. Unresolved ethical questions about research in pregnancy have significant detrimental impacts on maternal and newborn health, in part because they inhibit an evidence base be...

Interdisciplinary Global Health Forum: conference report.

In spring of 2012, students and staff at the First Faculty of Medicine at Charles University in Prague invited distinguished public health stakeholders and experts to engage in a Global Health Forum. The forum lasted an afternoon, was academically and clinically engaging and offered students and medical faculty a venue to discuss the most pressing global public health concerns. Main outcomes fr...

Meeting Report The First Tianjin, China Forum on Tumor Microenvironment

Although it is well recognized that the tumor microenvironment plays a key role in regulating tumor progression, the mechanisms through which this occurs need to be defined. Current international research activities toward defining the role of the tumor microenvironment in cancer progression were the subject of the first Tianjin Forum on Tumor Microenvironment held at Nankai University in Tianj...