VED 2025 Draft Final Programme
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Day One
Tuesday 24th June 2025
08.15 Onwards
Registration
09.10-09.15
Welcome & Opening Remarks
Ann-Mari Svennerholm and Jan Holmgren
(University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden)
SESSION 1:
INTRODUCTORY PLENARY SESSION
Moderator: Duncan Steele
(Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, USA)
09.15-09.40
‘Immune mechanisms in enteric infections: An introductory overview’
Jan Holmgren
(University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden)
09.40-10.05
‘Cholera, enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli and Shigella vaccine introduction in Bangladesh, struggles and successes’
Firdausi Qadri
(icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh)
10.05-10.30
‘Challenges in rigorous clinical evaluation of newer enteric vaccines: The case of newer generation oral cholera vaccines’
John Clemens
(IVI, Seoul, South Korea/UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA)
10.30-11.00
Coffee Break & Posters Set-Up
SESSION 2:
VIRAL VACCINES
Moderator: Duncan Steele
(Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, USA)
11.00-11.20
‘icddr,b vaccine research towards Polio endgame’
K. Zaman
(icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh)
11.20-11.40
‘Safety and efficacy of a trivalent p2-vp8 parenteral rotavirus vaccine candidate in healthy infants residing in Ghana, Malawi and Zambia’
Tushar Tewari1, George Armah2, Nigel A. Cunliffe3, Caroline. C. Chisenga4, Roma Chilengi4, Desiree Witte3,5, Vida Kukula6, Khuzwayo C. Jere3,5, Michelo Simuyandi4, Susan Damanka2, Edson Mwinjiwa5, Katayi Kazimbaya4, Frank Atuguba6, John Williams6, Joanne Csedrik7, Chris Gast7 and Stan Cryz7
(1 PATH, India, 2 Noguchi Memorial Institute for Medical Research, Ghana; 3 University of Liverpool, United Kingdom; 4 Centre for Infectious Disease Research in Zambia, Zambia; 5 Malawi-Liverpool-Wellcome (MLW) Clinical Research Programme, Malawi; 6 Dodowa Health Research Centre, Ghana; 7 PATH, USA)
11.40-12.00
‘Characterization of humoral and cellular immunity induced by mRNA vaccines expressing norovirus VP1 proteins in mice and nonhuman primates’
Jiajie Wei1, Karin Bystol1, Leah Alabanza3, Shuhui Lim2, Jamie Greig2, Pooja Gopal2, Jennifer D. Galli1, Christopher Warren1, Andrew Swartz4, Courtney David5, Uijin Jeong2, Estibaliz Gonzalez-Fernandez2, Lizzy DeWitt2, Scott Radcliffe2, Corey D. May Fulton2, Pamela Shen2, Arthur Fridman6, John Gaspar6, Amanda Pirrone1, Gregory O’Donnell2, Lauren Austin5, David McKenney2, Paula Krosky2, Yaping Liu3, Andy Bett1 and Lan Zhang1
(1 Department of Infectious Diseases and Vaccines, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, PA, USA; 2 Department of Quantitative Biosciences, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, PA, USA; 3 Department of Pharmacokinetics, Dynamics, Metabolism, and Bioanalytics, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, PA, USA; 4 Department of Process Development, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, PA, USA; 5 Department of Discovery Pharmaceutical Sciences, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, PA, USA; 6 Department of Data Science, Merck & Co., Inc., West Point, PA, USA)
12.00-12.20
‘A broadly protective human antibody for GI genogroup noroviruses’
Inga Rimkute1, Adam S. Olia1, Mehin Suleiman1, Kamron D. Woods1, Tatsiana Bylund1, Nicholas C. Morano2,3, Ena S. Tully1, Raffaello Verardi1, Saran Bao1, Margaret H. Beddall1, Natthawan Chaimongkol4, Mitzi M. Donaldson1, Renguang Du1, Caitlyn N.M. Dulan1, Jason Gorman1, Amy R. Henry1, Chaim A. Schramm1, Stanislav V. Sosnovtsev4, Tyler Stephens5, John-Paul Todd1, Yaroslav Tsybovsky5, Daniel C. Douek1, Kim Y. Green5, Reda Rawi1, Lawrence Shapiro2,3, Tongqing Zhou1, Peter D. Kwong1,3 and Mario Roederer1
(1 Vaccine Research Center, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, USA; 2 Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute, Columbia University, New York, New York, USA; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, USA; 3 Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, USA; 4 Laboratory of Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), National Institutes of Health (NIH), Bethesda, Maryland, USA; 5 Electron Microscopy Laboratory, Cancer Research Technology Program, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, Frederick, Maryland, USA)
12.20-13.20
Lunch Break & Posters
SESSION 3:
ETEC VACCINES (I)
Moderator: Ann-Mari Svennerholm
(University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden)
13.20-13.40
‘ETVAX® vaccine against travellers’ diarrhoea among Finnish travellers to West Africa (OEV-123 trial)‘
A. Kantele1,2,3, T.S. Jokiranta4, M. Riekkinen1, J. Holmgren5, A. Lissmats6,B. Sjöstrand6, N. Carlin6, A.M. Svennerholm5 and the OEV123 study group
(1 Meilahti Vaccine Research Center, MeVac, University of Helsinki and HUS, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland; Biomedicum 1, Helsinki, Finland; 2 Human Microbiome Research Unit, University of Helsinki, Finland; 3 Travel Clinic, Aava Medical Center, Helsinki, Finland; 4 Medicum, University of Helsinki, Finland; 5 Gothenburg University Vaccine Research Institute, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of Biomedicine, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; 6 Scandinavian Biopharma, Stockholm, Sweden)
13.40-14.00
‘Safety, efficacy, and immunogenicity of ETVAX, an oral multivalent whole-cell vaccine against moderate-to-severe Enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) diarrhea in Gambian children’
M. Jahangir Hossain1, Fatou Secka1, Lady C. Sanyang1, Raifu Taiwo1, Emmanuel C. Okoh1, Olubunmi A. Olubiyi1, Mbemba Drammeh1, Emmanuel U. Richard1, Dahiru Ahmed1, Mama Drammeh1, Samba Juma Jallow1, Bakary Sonko1, Patricia Ezedimbu-Michael1, Jacinta Obiaduo1, Ousman Secka1, Joanna Kaim3, Björn Sjöstrand2, Agneta Lissmats2, Nils Carlin2, Umberto D’Alessandro1, Ann-Mari Svennerholm3 and Thomas F. Wierzba4
(1 Medical Research Council Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, Banjul, The Gambia; 2 Scandinavian Biopharma, Solna, Sweden; 3 University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; 4 Wake Forest School of Medicine, Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA)
14.00-14.20
‘MecVax, an epitope- and structure-based multivalent ETEC vaccine broadly protects against ETEC intestinal colonization and clinical diarrhea’
Hyesuk Seo1,2, Qiangde Duan2, Xiaosai Ruan2, Ipshita Upadhyay1,2, Siqi Li1,2, David A Sack3 and Weiping Zhang1,2
(1 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Pathobiology, Urbana, IL, USA; 2 Kansas State University, Department of Pathobiology and Diagnostic Medicine, Manhattan, KS, USA; 3 Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of International Health, Baltimore, MD, USA)
14.20-14.40
‘Continued evaluation of the TD disease score for assessment of ETEC vaccine (ETVAX) impact on Traveler’s Diarrhea severity and incidence’
Nicole Maier1, C.K. Porter2, A.-M. Svennerholm3, B. Sjöstrand4, C N. Carlin4, A. Lissmats4, A. L. Bourgeois6, M. Riekkinen6, T.S. Jokiranta6 and A. Kantele6
(1 PATH; Washington, DC USA; 2 Naval Medical Research Center, Forest Glen Maryland, USA; 3 University of Gothenburg, Sweden; 4 Scandinavian Biopharma Holding AB, Stockholm, Sweden; 5 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore Maryland, USA; 6 Medicum, University of Helsinki, Finland)
14.40-15.00
Tea Break & Posters
SESSION 4:
ETEC VACCINES (II)
Moderator: Edward T. Ryan
(Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA)
15:00-15.20
‘Role of adjuvants in mucosal and injected enteric subunit vaccines: Lessons from clinical and pre-clinical studies’
Elizabeth Norton
(Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA)
15.20-15.40
‘Serological responses associated with protection against oral H10407 ETEC challenge’
Silvia Jakubski1,2, Bronwyn Gunn3, Chad K. Porter2, Renee M. Laird1,2,4 and Elizabeth B. Norton5
(1 Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland, USA; 2 Naval Medical Research Command, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA; 3 Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA; 4 Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA; 5 Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisana, USA)
15.40-16.00
‘Pre-study of wild type Enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) strain for verification of a planned challenge dose’
Kawsar R. Talaat1, A. Louis Bourgeois1, Subhra Chakraborty1, Chad Porter2, Courtney Swisher1, Taoyang Wang1, Brittany Feijoo1, Kam Dhanjani1, Sandra Isidean2,3, Christian Herzog4,5,6, Nina Knave6, Catarina Jansson6 and Bjorn Sjostrand6
(1 Center for Immunization Research and Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; 2 Translational and Clinical Research Department, Naval Medical Research Command, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA; 3 Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland, USA; 4 Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Allschwil, Switzerland; 5 University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland; 6 Scandinavian Biopharma, Solna, Sweden)
16.00-16.20
‘A new partially dried easy-to-prepare formulation of the oral ETVAX vaccine against ETEC diarrhea is immunogenic and safe: results from a noninferiority Phase II trial’
Nils Carlin1, Joanna Kaim2, Agneta Lissmats1, Per Samuelson1, Dan Curiac3 and Anna Lundgren2
(1 Scandinavian Biopharma, Solna, Sweden; 2 Dept. of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden; 3 Clinical Trial Center, Sahlgrenska University Hospital, Gothenburg, Sweden)
16.20-16.40
‘T-cell mediated immune responses and the development of monoclonal antibodies from enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) infected diarrheal patients’
Marjahan Akhtar1, Salima Raiyan Basher1, Shakil Mahmud, Taufiqur Rahman Bhuiyan1, James M. Fleckenstein2, Anna Lundgren3 and Firdausi Qadri1
(1 icddr,b (International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh), Dhaka, Bangladesh; 2 Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine, Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; 3 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
16.40-17.00
‘Clinical and environmental epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance of ETEC and the role of environmental factors’
Subhra Chakraborty1, Fatema-Tuz Johura1, Sam Dougan2, Marzia Sultana3, Shirajum Monira3, Anne Bishop2, Astrid von Mentzer4, David A. Sack1, Richard Bradley Sack1, Nicholas Thomson2 and Munirul Alam3
(1 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, USA; 2 Wellcome Sanger Institute, London, UK; 3 International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Dhaka, Bangladesh; 4 University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
17.00-18.15
VED 2025 Welcome Drinks Reception and Poster Session
Sponsored by Scandinavian Biopharma

Day Two
Wednesday 25th June 2025
SESSION 5:
ETEC VACCINES (III)
Moderator: Elizabeth Norton
(Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA)
08.15-08.35
‘Human infection with enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) elicits antibodies that neutralize mucin-degrading proteases of ETEC and Shigella’
David Buckley1, Marjahan Akhtar2, Mahima Thapa3, Aaron Schmitz3, Jackson Turner3, Tim J. Vickers2, Nazia Khatoon2, Hasan Kaisar2, Jonathan A. Coggin2, Alaullah Sheikh2, Renee M. Laird4, Frédéric Poly4, Chad K. Porter5, Sabyasachi Baboo6, Tafiqur R. Bhuiyan7, Firdausi Qadri7, Ali Ellebedy3,8,9, Zachary T. Berndsen1 and James M. Fleckenstein2,10
(1 Department of Biochemistry, University of Missouri Columbia, Columbia, Missouri, USA; 2 Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, MO, USA; 3 Department of Pathology and Immunology, Washington University in Saint Louis, School of Medicine. Saint Louis, Missouri, USA; 4 Operationally Relevant Infections Department, Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC), Silver Spring, Maryland, USA; 5 Naval Medical Research Command (NMRC), Silver Spring, Maryland, USA; 6 Department of Molecular Medicine, The Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, CA, USA; 7 International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Banglandesh (icddrb), Dhaka, Bangladesh; 10 Infectious Diseases, Medicine Service, Veterans Affairs Saint Louis Health Care System, Saint Louis Missouri, USA)
08.35-08.55
‘Targeted delivery of oral vaccine antigens to aminopeptidase N protects pigs against pathogenic E. coli challenge infection’
Hans van der Weken
(Ghent University, Ghent, Belgium)
08.55-09.15
‘Hidden diversity and species-wide evolution of ETEC colonisation factors in E. coli’
Astrid von Mentzer1,2, Martin Boström3, John Lees4, Adrian Cazares2, Erik Kristiansson3, Mathew A. Beale2 and Nicholas R. Thomson2,5
(1 University of Gothenburg, Sahlgrenska Academy, Gothenburg, Sweden; 2 Parasites and Microbes Programme, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK; 3 Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden; 4 EBI, Hinxton, UK; 5 Faculty of Infectious and Tropical Diseases, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK)
09.15-09.35
‘Survival and adaptative strategies of enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC) to the freshwater environment’
Åsa Sjöling1,2 and Enrique Joffré1,2
(1 Department of Chemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; 2 Department of Microbiology, Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Biomedicum A8, Stockholm, Sweden)
09.35-09.55
‘Diarrhea burden in older adults in Cameroon, a case-control study using low-cost specimen preservation’
Amanda K. Debes, Audrey Safir, Etienne Guenou, Armand Kwetchop Dopgang, Ismael Kengmo Feudjio, Ketina Hirma Tchio Nighie, Emmanuel Tize, Tess Ayazika, Erin Baumgartner, Jamie Perin and Jerome Ateudjieu
(Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
09.55-10.15
‘Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) diarrhea in Dhaka, Bangladesh: Epidemiological and clinical findings from a randomized controlled trial’
Fahima Chowdhury, Md Taufiqul Islam, Faisal Ahmmed, Afroza Akter, Firdausi Qadri and John D. Clemens
(icddr,b, Dhaka, Bangladesh)
10.15-10.35
Coffee Break & Posters
SESSION 6:
SHIGELLA VACCINES
Moderator: David Sack
(Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA, USA)
10.35-10.55
‘The burden, consequences, and cost of Shigella diarrhea in young children and implications for Shigella vaccines: Findings from the seven-country Enterics for Global Health (EFGH)-Shigella Study’
Patricia Pavlinac, Jennifer Cornick, Nigel Cunliffe, Khuzwayo Jere, M. Jahangir Hossain, Eric Houpt, Margaret Kosek, Karen Kotloff, Richard Omore, Maribel Paredes_Olortegui, James Platts-Mills, Firdausi Qadri and Farah Qamar, Elizabeth Rogawski McQuade, Samba Sow and Sharon Tennant
(On behalf of the EFGH consortium)
10.55-11.15
‘Efficacy and immunogenicity of WRSs2, a live attenuated Shigella sonnei vaccine candidate, to protect against Shigellosis after challenge with a wild-type S. sonnei strain 53G’
R.W. Frenck Jr1, N. Rouphael2, S. Baqar3, M. Dickey, V. Smith2, J. El-Khorazaty5, M. McNeil, C. Quigley, E. Scherer2, J. Fraser5, T. Pham, C. Caldwell1, S. Bechnak2, S. Barnoy4, L. Chandrasekharan4, S. Heard5, E.A. Suvarnapunya4, L. Newman3, K. Cato3 and M.M. Venkatesan4
(1 Cincinnati Children’s Hospital and University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH; 2 Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; 3 Division of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Rockville Maryland, USA; 4 Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA; 5 The Emmes Company, Rockville Maryland, USA)
11.15-11.35
‘The Shigella flexneri 2a synthetic carbohydrate-based conjugate, SF2a-TT15, is safe and immunogenic in the 9-month-old infant target population in Kenya’
Frederic Sawe1, Lucy Koech1, Beatrice Korir1, Souhir Neffati2, Renée Laird3, Elisabeth Odundo4, Mary Kirui4, Kristen Clarkson3, Cécile Artaud2, Mohand Ait-Ahmed2, Robert Kaminski3, Dani Cohen5, Laurence A. Mulard2, Christiane Gerke2 and Armelle Phalipon2
(1 KEMRI/WRAIR-A/HJFMRI, Kericho, Kenya; 2 Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; 3 WRAIR, Silver Springs, Maryland, USA; 4 KEMRI/WRAIR-A/MHK, Kericho, Kenya; 5 Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel; * Affiliation at the starting time of the clinical trial)
11.35-11.50
‘Cross-protection of heterologous Shigella flexneri 2a and S. sonnei challenge in healthy adults in the United States’
Kawsar Talaat1, Bridgett Finley1, Chad Porter2, Subhra Chakraborty1, A. Louis Bourgeois1, Sandra Isidean2,3, Kate DeTizio2,3, Arthi Rameshkumar1, Courtney Swisher1, Madison Billingsley1, Brittany Feijoo1, Jessica Brubaker1, Akamol E. Suvarnapunya4, Nicole Maier5, Patricia Njuguna6 and Calman A. MacLennan7
(1 Center for Immunization Research and Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA; 2 Translational and Clinical Research Department, Naval Medical Research Command, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA; 3 Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland, USA; 4 Department of Diarrheal Disease Research, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA; 5 Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access, PATH, Washington, DC, USA; 6 Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access, PATH, Nairobi, Kenya; 7 Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, USA)
11.50-12.05
‘Immune responses and association with protection in heterologous Shigella flexneri 2a and S. sonnei challenge in healthy adults’
Subhra Chakraborty1, Zachary Mazanek1, Jade Lewis1, Chad Porter2, Bridgett Finley1, A. Louis Bourgeois1, Fatema Tuz-Johura1, Sandra Isidean2,3, Kate DeTizio2,3, Arthi Rameshkumar1, Courtney Swisher1, Brittany Feijoo1, Jessica Brubaker1, Akamol E. Suvarnapunya4, Renee Laird4, Nicole Maier5, Patricia Njuguna6, Kawsar Talaat1 and Calman MacLennan7
(1 Center for Immunization Research and Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA; 2 Translational and Clinical Research Department, Naval Medical Research Command, Silver Spring, MD, USA; 3 Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., Bethesda, MD, USA; 4 Department of Diarrheal Disease Research, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, USA; 5 Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access (CVIA), PATH, Washington, DC, USA; 6 Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access, PATH, Nairobi, Kenya; 7 Gates Foundation, Seattle, WA, USA)
12.05-12.20
‘Assessment of disease severity score trajectory in a controlled human infection model challenge with Shigella flexneri 2a and S. sonnei’
Madeleine Blunt1, Lou Bourgeois1, Katherine DeTizio2,3, Sandra Isidean2,3, Kawsar Talaat1 and Chad Porter2
(1 Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD USA; 2 Translational and Clinical Research Department, Naval Medical Research Command, Silver Spring, MD, USA; 3 Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., Bethesda, MD, USA)
12.20-12.35
‘Identifying optimal endpoint definitions using quantitative PCR to minimize outcome misclassification in upcoming Shigella vaccine trials’
Maria Garcia Quesada1, Benjamin A. Lopman1, Patricia B. Pavlinac2, James A. Platts-Mills3, Lance A. Waller4 and Elizabeth T. Rogawski McQuade1
(1 Department of Epidemiology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA; 2 Department of Global Health, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; 3 Division of Infectious Diseases and International Health, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA; 4 Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA)
12.35-13.35
Lunch Break & Posters
SESSION 6:
SHIGELLA VACCINES (continued)
13.35-13.55
‘OSP and ipaB-specific immune responses to Shigella flexneri 2a patients in Bangladesh’
Taufiqur Rahman Bhuiyan1, Shakil Mahamud1, Salima Raiyan Basher1, Diganta Islam1, Lutfun Nahar Lata1, Mohammad Ashraful Amin1, Nazmul Hasan Rajib1, Jeshina Janardhanan2, Chanchal Wagh2, Charles C. Richelle2,3, Peng Xu4, Pavol Kováč4, Subhra Chakraborty5, Fahima Chowdhury1, Ashraful Islam Khan1, Firdausi Qadri1 and Edward T Ryan2,3,6
(1 International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh (icddr,b), Dhaka, Bangladesh; 2 Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; 3 Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; 4 NIDDK, LBC, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland, USA; 5 Department of International Health, Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; 6 Department of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA)
13.55-14.15
‘Matching preclinical and clinical evidences and exploring cross-functionality for GMMA-based altSonflex1-2-3 vaccine against Shigella’
Francesca Mancini, Valentina Caradonna, Eleanna Sarakinou, Agnes Hunyady, Roberta Di Benedetto, Renzo Alfini, Marika Pinto, Federica Boretto, Salvatore Gemmellaro, Miren Iturriza, Francesco Berlanda Scorza, Simona Rondini, Carlo Giannelli, Valentino Conti, Ashwani Kumar Arora, Omar Rossi and Francesca Micoli
(GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health (GVGH), Siena, Italy)
SESSION 7:
CHOLERA VACCINES
Moderator: John Clemens
(International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, South Korea)
14.15-14.35
‘Phase 1 clinical trial of the OSP:rTTH cholera conjugate vaccine (CCV)’
Edward T. Ryan1 and Julia Lynch2
(1 Massachusetts General Hospital-Harvard University, Boston, MA USA; 2 International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, South Korea)
Co-Authors:
(International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, South Korea)
Naveena Aloysia D’Cor, Tarun Saluja, Katerina Rok Song, Sunju Park, Bo Mi Kim, Jiyoung Lee, Deok Ryun Kim, Ji Won Lee, Yun Jung Chang, Eun Young Lee, Ji Soo Lee, Seongsu Kim, Jae Seung Yang, Dong-Gun Lee
(St. Mary’s Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea)
Anhye Kim Cha
(Bundang Medical Center of CHA University, Seoul, South Korea)
Jong Tak Jung
(Soon Chun Hyang University Hospital, Seoul, South Korea)
Yeong Ok Baik and Youngshin Park
(Eubiologics Co. Ltd, Seoul, South Korea)
Jeshina Janardhanan and Chanchal Wagh
(Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA)
Pavol Kovac and Peng Xu
(NIDDK, NIH, USA)
Willie Vann
(FDA, USA)
Firdausi Qadri
(International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research, Bangladesh (icddr,b))
14.35-14.55
‘DuoChol: A thermostable, dry formulation whole-cell/B-subunit enteric capsule oral cholera vaccine’
Manuela Terrinoni1, Michael Lebens1, Stefan Nordqvist1, Madeleine Löfstrand1, Frida Nilsson1, Ruchir K. Pansuriya2, Julia Lynch2 and Jan Holmgren1,3
(1 University of Gothenburg, Department of Microbiology and Immunology Sweden; 2 International Vaccine Institute (IVI), Seoul, South Korea; 3 Gotovax AB, Sweden)
14.55-15.10
‘From bench to clinic: GMP production and preclinical toxicity of DuoChol, a third-generation improved capsule OCV’
R.K. Pansuriya1, M. Terrinoni2, M. Lebens2, I. Permatasari1, F. Ressdorfer1, A. Svahn3, E. Lindmark4, S. Alvér4, J. Holmgren2 and J. Lynch1
(1 International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, South Korea; 2 University of Gothenburg/Gotovax, Sweden; 3 NorthX, Matfors/Solna, Sweden; 4 RISE, Sodertalje, Sweden)
15.10-15.30
‘Assessing programmatic needs: Stakeholder Workshop findings on oral cholera vaccine capsules (DuoChol)’
Dijana Spasenoska1, Anna-Lea Kahn1, Malika Bouhenia1, Bo-Sung Kim2, Indriana Permatasari2, Naveena Aloysia D’Cor2, Jungseok Lee2, Se Eun Park2 and Julia Lynch2
(1 World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; 2 International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Korea)
15.30-15.55
Tea Break & Posters
SESSION 7:
CHOLERA VACCINES (Continued)
15.55-16.15
‘Safety and immunogenicity of PanChol: A single-dose live attenuated oral cholera vaccine candidate’
Deborah R. Leitner1,2, Hannah Levine1,3, Masataka Suzuki1,2, Akina Osaki1,2, Emily Sullivan1,2, George I. Balazs1,2, Damien Slater4,5, Jason Harris4,5, Alisse Hannaford1,3, Stephen R. Walsh1,3, Amy C. Sherman1,3, Lindsey R. Baden1,3, Matthew K. Waldor1,2 and BWH clinical investigation team1
(1 Division of Infectious Diseases, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; 2 Department of Microbiology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; 3 Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; 4 Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, MA, USA; 5 Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA)
16.15-16.35
‘Impact of cholera vaccination plus enhanced surveillance in Uganda’
David A. Sack1, Godfrey Bwire2, Francis Ongole3, Amanda K. Debes2 and Christopher Garimoi Orach4
(1 Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; 2 Department of Community Health, Ministry of Health Uganda, Kampala, Uganda; 3 Department of National Health Laboratory and Diagnostic Services, Ministry of Health, Kampala, Uganda; 4 College of Health Sciences, Makerere University School of Public Health, Kampala, Uganda)
16.35-16.55
‘Vibriocidal titers following killed oral cholera vaccination given 4 years after initial receipt of OCV in Cameroon’
David A. Sack1, Jerome Ateudjieu2,3,4, Carrel Fokou2, Ketina Hirma Tchio-Nighie2,4, Collins Buh Nkum2, Etienne Guenou2,5, Landry Beyala2, Sabine Nanfack2, Winny Dora Ateudjieu-Kenfack6,7, Cavin Bekolo3, Anne-Cecile Zoung-Kanyi Bissek4,8 and Amanda K. Debes1
(1 Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA; 2 M.A. SANTE, Cameroon; 3 Department of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Dschang, Cameroon; 4 Division of Health Operations Research, Cameroon Ministry of Public Health, 5 National Laboratory of Public Health, Cameroon Ministry of Public Health; 6 Department of Microbiology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Yaounde, Cameroon; 7 Centre for Research on Emerging and Re-emerging Diseases CREMER, Cameroon; 8 Department of internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, University of Dschang)
Day Three
Thursday 26th June 2025
SESSION 8:
COMBINATION VACCINES I
Moderator: Robert Choy
(PATH, Washington DC, USA)
08.15-08.40
‘The combination paradigm and the future of new enteric vaccines’
Christopher Gill and Duncan Steele
(Gates Foundation, Seattle, Washington, USA)
08.40-09.00
‘Phase 1 study of an oral prototype combined Shigella-ETEC vaccine’
Wilbur H. Chen, Eileen M. Barry, Marcela F. Pasetti, Frank R. Toapanta, Marcelo B. Sztein, Sharon M. Tennant, Jasnehta Permala-Booth, Yuanyuan Liang, Constance Thomas and Myron M. Levine
(University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
9.00-09.20
‘S. sonnei live attenuated vaccine strain CVD 1233-SP expressing ETEC antigens CS2 and CS3’
Eileen M. Barry, Tao Wu, Giulia Pilla, Christen Grassel, Brock Brethour, Chris Tang and Myron M. Levine
(University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
09.20-09.40
‘Identifying the optimal schedule for a multi-pathogen combination vaccine for diarrheal disease’
Shane A. Conyers, Ritesh Sivakumar, Aniruddha Deshpande, Avnika Amin, Elizabeth Rogawski McQuade and Ben Lopman
(Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
09.40-10.00
‘ShecVax: A combined vaccine against Shigella and ETEC’
Siqi Li1,2, Ipshita Upadhyay1,2, Hyesuk Seo1,2, Aashwina Madhwal1, Sai Simha Reddy Vakamalla1, Chongyang Zhang1, David A Sack3 and Weiping Zhang1,2
(1 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Pathobiology, Urbana, IL, USA; 2 Kansas State University, Department of Pathobiology and Diagnostic Medicine, Manhattan, KS, USA; 3 Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health, Department of International Health, Baltimore, MD, USA)
10.00-10.25
Coffee Break & Posters
SESSION 9:
COMBINATION VACCINES II
Moderator: Robert Choy
(PATH, Washington DC, USA)
10.25-10.45
‘Randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study on the efficacy and safety of CampETEC Hyperimmune Bovine Colostrum (HBC) for the prevention of Campylobacter-mediated diarrheal disease’
Kawsar R. Talaat1, Chad K. Porter2, Rediet Tekalign1, Barbara DeNearing1, Subhra Chakraborty1, A. Louis Bourgeois1, Courtney Swisher1, Brittany L. Feijoo1, Kamal Dhanjani1, Jade Lewis1, Fatema-Tuz Johura1, Sandra D. Isidean2,3, Kayla Testa2,3, Christina L. Gariepy3,4, Dilara Islam3,4, Vicky Chapman3,4, Renee M. Laird3,4,5, Joanne L. Casey6, Jerry Kanellos6, David A. Sack1 and Frédéric Poly4
(1 Center for Immunization Research and Department of International Health, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland,USA; 2 Translational and Clinical Research Department, Naval Medical Research Command, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA; 3 Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Military Medicine, Inc., Bethesda, Maryland, USA; 4 Operationally Relevant Infections Department, Naval Medical Research Command, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA; 5 Diarrheal Disease Research Department, Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA; 6 Immuron Limited, Blackburn North, Victoria, Australia)
10.45-11.00
‘Immunogenicity of coadministered oral live Salmonella Typhi Ty21a vaccine and inactivated whole-cell cholera vaccine combined with cholera toxin B subunit: a prospective randomized open-label trial’
Marianna Riekkinen1,2,3, Manuela Terrinoni4, Sari H. Pakkanen1,3, Joanna Kaim4, Tero Vahlberg5 and Anna Lundgren4 and Anu Kantele1,2,3
(1 Meilahti Vaccine Research Center, MeVac, University of Helsinki and Helsinki University Hospital, Finland; 2 Department of Infectious Diseases, Helsinki University Hospital, Finland; 3 Human Microbiome, Research Unit, University of Helsinki, Finland; 4 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Gothenburg, Swede; 5 Department of Biostatistics, University of Turku and Turku University Hospital, Finland)
11.00-11.15
‘Potential for a combined oral inactivated whole cell vaccine against ETEC and Shigella: Preclinical studies supporting feasibility’
Manuela Terrinoni1, Jan Holmgren1, Madeleine Löfstrand1, K. Ross Turbyfill3, Edwin Oaks3, Lillian Van De Verg2, Nicole Maier2, A. Louis Bourgeois2 and Richard Walker2
(1 Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden; 2 Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access, PATH, Washington, DC, USA; 3 Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA)
SESSION 10:
SALMONELLA VACCINES
Moderator: Julia Lynch
(International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Korea)
11.15-11.35
‘Durability and patterns of immune response induced by a single dose of Typhoid conjugate vaccine in Bangladeshi children: Six-year follow-up of a cluster-Randomized trial’
Farhana Khanam1, Nazmul Hasan Rajib1, Prasanta Kumar Biswas1, Ismail Hossen1, Amirul Islam Bhuiyan1, Sadia Islam1, Yama F. Mujadidi2,3, Sarah Kelly2,3, Andrew J. Pollard2,3, Xinxue Liu2,3, John D. Clemens1,4,5,6 and Firdausi Qadri1
(1 International Centre for Diarrheal Disease Research, Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh; 2 Oxford Vaccine Group, Department of Paediatrics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; 3 NIHR Oxford Biomedical Research Centre and Oxford University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Oxford, UK; 4 International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, Republic of Korea; 5 UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, California, USA)
11.35-11.55
‘Interim immunogenicity and safety data from a phase 1/2a, randomized, controlled, observer-blind trial to evaluate the safety, reactogenicity and immunogenicity of a trivalent vaccine against invasive nontyphoidal Salmonellosis (iNTS) and Typhoid Fever in healthy European and African adults’
Yasir Shitu Isa1, Kanchanamala Withanage2, Priyanka D. Patel3, Beatrice Grossi1, Chiara Fineschi1, Antonio Lorenzo Di Pasquale1, Eray Salt4, Giulia Luna Cilio4, Alimamy Serry-Bangura4, Omar Rossi1, Chitsanzo P. Kwawilira3, Francesca Mancini1, Marta Benincasa1, Daniele De Simone1, Chiara Crispino1, Rita La Gaetana1, Ilse De Coster2, Valentino Conti1, Rocio Canals1, Ashwani Kumar Arora1 and Melita A. Gordon3,5,6
(1 GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health, Siena, Italy; 2 University of Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium; 3 Malawi Liverpool Programme, Blantyre, Malawi; 4 GSK Vaccines Srl, Siena, Italy; 5 Institute of Infection, Veterinary and Ecological Sciences, University of Liverpool, Liverpool, UK; 6 Centre for Global Health, Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK)
11.55-12.15
‘Safety and immunogenicity of Vi-CRM197+O:2-CRM197, a bivalent vaccine against Salmonella Typhi and Paratyphi A: final results from a phase 1, randomized, controlled clinical trial in healthy European adults’
Ilse De Coster1, Mohammad AbdelGhany2, Eleanna Sarakinou2, Chiara Fineschi2, Elisa Marchetti2, Rita La Gaetana2, Simona Nigro2, Martina Carducci2, Luisa Massai2, Valentino Conti2, Omar Rossi2, Giulia Luna Cilio3, Alimamy Serry-Bangura3, Pietro Tessitore3, Pierre Van Damme1, Kanchanamala Withanage1, Francesca Micoli2, Francesco Berlanda Scorza2, Simona Rondini2 and Ashwani Kumar Arora2
(1 Centre for the Evaluation of Vaccination, University of Antwerp, Edegem, Belgium; 2 GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health (GVGH), Siena, Italy; 3 GSK, Siena, Italy)
12.15-12.45
Combined presentation:
‘Phase 1 studies of a trivalent Salmonella conjugate vaccine (TSCV) to address Typhoid and invasive non-typhoidal Salmonella (iNTS) disease in Africa’
‘Phase 2 trial in sub-Saharan Africa to assess the safety and immunogenicity of a trivalent Salmonella (S. Enteritidis/S. Typhimurium/S. Typhi Vi) conjugate vaccine (TSCV)’
Wilber Chen
(University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
12.45-13.00
‘A rapid diagnostic test to be used for diagnosis of invasive non-typhoidal salmonellosis’
Gianluca Breghi
(Sclavo Vaccines Association ETS/ Fondazione Achille Sclavo ETS, Siena, Italy)
13.00-13.50
Lunch Break & Posters Breakdown
SESSION 11:
LATEBREAKERS SESSION
Moderators: Anu Kantele
(Helsinki University, Finland)
13.50-14.10
‘Novel adjuvants for inactivated oral vaccines’
Ed Lavelle
(Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)
14.10-14.30
‘Mucosal vaccination of inactivated Clostridioides difficile toxins and novel surface antigens clears colonization and promotes host survival’
Audrey K. Thomas1,2, Alyssa G. Ehni1,2, F. Christopher Peritore-Galve2, Eric J. Brady3, Sandy Yoder3, Rebecca Shrem4, Benjamin W. Spiller4, C. Buddy Creech3 and D. Borden Lacy2
(On behalf of the Vanderbilt Antibody and Antigen Discovery for C. difficile Vaccines (VANDy-CdV) Study Team)
(1 Microbe-Host Interactions PhD Program, Vanderbilt University; 2 Department of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; 3 Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; 4 Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennesee, USA)
14.30-14.50
‘Evaluation of the role of Alhydrogel in the responses induced by Shigella and Salmonella vaccines in animals’
Roberta di Benedetto
(GSK Vaccines Institute for Global Health, Siena, Italy)
14.50-15.10
‘Nanoemulsion-formulated ETEC vaccine induces systemic immunogenicity and recall to gut antigen challenge in neonatal piglets’
Gitte Erbs, Gabriel K. Pedersen, Frank Folmann and Gregers Jungersen
(Section for Gastrointestinal Vaccine Research, Department of Infectious Disease Immunology, Center for Vaccine Research, Statens Serum Institut, Copenhagen, Denmark)
15.10-15.25
‘Intradermal delivery of fractional dose (1/5th) Inactivated Polio Vaccine (IPV) in combination with dmLT reduces vaccine shedding’
Jessica W. Crothers1,2, Dorothy Dickson2, Mary Claire Walsh2,3, Bernardo A. Mainou4, Hang Xie4, Jessica A. White5 and Beth D. Kirkpatrick2,3
(1 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Larner College of Medicine, Burlington, Vermont, USA; 2 Vaccine Testing Center, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA; 3 Department of Medicine, Larner College of Medicine, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, USA; 4 Polio and Picornavirus Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; 5 Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access, PATH – Seattle, Washington, USA)
SESSION 12:
CLOSING SESSION/HIGHLIGHTS
15.25-15.45
‘From Research to Roll-Out: WHO’s Approach to Enteric Vaccine Advancement’
Annelies Wilder-Smith
(World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland)
15.45-15.55
VED 2025 Closing Remarks
Lou Bourgeois
(Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
Conference Close & Tea Break & Departure
Posters
Poster 101
‘Mucosal vaccination of inactivated Clostridioides difficile toxins and novel surface antigens clears colonization and promotes host survival’
Audrey K. Thomas1,2, Alyssa G. Ehni1,2, F. Christopher Peritore-Galve2, Eric J. Brady3, Sandy Yoder3, Rebecca Shrem4, Benjamin W. Spiller4, C. Buddy Creech3, and D. Borden Lacy2
(On behalf of the Vanderbilt Antibody and Antigen Discovery for C. difficile Vaccines (VANDy-CdV) Study Team)
(1 Microbe-Host Interactions PhD Program, Vanderbilt University; 2 Department of Pathology, Microbiology & Immunology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center; 3 Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program, 3Vanderbilt University Medical Center; 4 Department of Pharmacology, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennesee, USA)
Poster 102
‘Vibrio cholerae-specific serological profiling among children, adolescents and adults after oral cholera vaccination’
Sera Oh1, Gippeum Lim1, Ju Yeon Park1, Deok Ryun Kim1, Katerina Rok Song1, Manki Song1, Edward T. Ryan2, Richelle C. Charles2, Julia A Lynch1, Jae Seung Yang1
(1 International Vaccine Institute, Republic of Korea; 2 Division of Infectious Diseases, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA)
Poster 103
‘Shigella truncated mutant as a platform for vaccines against multi-pathogen enteric infections’
Jae-Ouk Kim1, Harald Nothaft2, Younghye Moon1, Seonghun Jeong1, Anthony R. Vortherms3, Manki Song1, Akamol E. Suvarnapunya3, Christine M. Szymanski2,4, Jessica White5, Richard Walker6, A. Louis Bourgeois7,1
(1 Science Unit, International Vaccine Institute, Seoul, South Korea; 2 VaxAlta Inc. and University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, Canada; 3 Walter Reed Army Institute for Research, Silver Spring, Maryland, USA; 4 Complex Carbohydrate Research Center, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia, USA; 5 PATH, Seattle, WA, USA; 6 PATH, Washington, DC, USA; 7 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore MD, USA)
Poster 104
‘Functional characterization of capsule expression and epithelial cell invasion among Shigella serotypes and implications for vaccine development’
Brock W. Brethour, Megan D. Broussard, Tao Wu, Eileen M. Barry
(University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland, USA)
Poster 105
‘Estimating the impact of Shigella vaccines on growth outcomes and implications for clinical trial design’
Allison Codi, Elizabeth Rogawski-McQuade and David Benkeser
(Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA)
Poster 106
‘Safety, immunogenicity, and global public health potential of a novel vi-crm197 typhoid conjugate vaccine, eutyph-c®: results from clinical trials’
Howard Her1, Chankyu Lee1, Soo Kyung Kim1, YoungJin Choi1, Youngran Park1, Patricia Njuguna2 and Yeong Ok Baik1
(1 R&D Division, EuBiologics Co., Ltd, Seoul, Republic of Korea; 2 Center for Vaccine Innovation and Access, PATH, Nairobi, Kenya)
Poster 107
‘Continued evaluation of the TD disease score for assessment of ETEC vaccine (ETVAX) impact on Traveller’s Diarrhea severity and incidence’
N. Maier1, A. Kantele2, A.-M. Svennerholm3, B. Sjöstrand4, C N. Carlin4, A. Lissmats4, A.L. Bourgeois5, T.S.Jokiranta6 and C.K. Porter7
(1 PATH; Washington, DC USA; 2 University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland; 3 University of Gothenburg, Sweden; 4 Scandinavian Biopharma Holding AB, Stockholm, Sweden; 5 Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore Maryland, USA; 6 Medicum, University of Helsinki, Finland; 7 Naval Medical Research Center, Forest Glen Maryland, USA)
Poster 108
‘DmLT: A novel potent adjuvant in development by PATH’
Marcus Estrada
(PATH, Seattle, Washington, USA)
This provisional programme is correct at the time of publication. However the organizers reserve the right to make any alterations that may be required in the interests and integrity of the conference programme.