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European Commission Colloquium

Mid-term Meeting and Symposium

Prevention, Treatment and Control of Leishmaniasis,
Trypanosomiasis and Chagas disease

September 21st-24th, 2010, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France


Advisory Scientific Committee

- Gerald SPAETH, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
- Stefan MAGEZ, VUB, Brussels, Belgium
- Jean-Claude DUJARDIN, Instituut voor Tropische Geneeskunde, Antwerpen, Belgium
- Gérard M. PAPIEROK, Virbac, Carros, France
- Helge B. BODE, Frankfurt University, Frankfurt, Germany
- Michael A MILES, LSHTM, London, United Kingdom
- Simon L. CROFT, LSHTM, London, United Kingdom
- Dolores GONZALEZ PACANOWSKA, CSIC, Granada, Spain
- Ole F. OLESEN, Health Research, European Commission
- Rachida GHALOUCI, Health Research, European Commission

The Colloquium

This colloquium will bring together scientists who are interested in research on neglected protozoan diseases. The meeting will gather 8 major research projects funded by the European Commission (EC) under the 7th Framework Programme (FP7) in the area of neglected infectious diseases. The programme will be a combination of separate mid-term meetings for the first two days, followed by a common symposium on the third day. The symposium includes:

1) keynote lectures by leaders in the field about the latest scientific developments,
2) presentation of the 8 EC funded research consortia with their latest cutting-edge research results,
3) poster sessions presenting new research on protozoan diseases.

Conference Sessions

The colloquium will address the neglected protozoan diseases of Leishmaniasis, human African trypanosomiasis (sleeping sickness), and Chagas’ disease.

• Vaccines for Leishmaniasis
• New diagnostic for Protozoan diseases
• Innovative drug discovery
• Control of Leishmaniasis
• Epidemiology of Neglected Protozoan diseases