Medical University Vienna Austrian Academy of Sciences
   

The symposium celebrated the discovery of poliovirus by Karl Landsteiner and Erwin Popper in Vienna 100 years ago,
and discussed our current state of knowledge on poliovirus biology as well as the prospects for the eradication program.

Poster download

 
   

The following speakers participated:

    pdf Georg Stingl Medical University Vienna, Austria
    pdf Neal Nathanson University Pennsylvania, USA
    pdf Jeffrey Almond Sanofi Pasteur, Lyon, France
    pdf James Hogle Harvard University, USA
    pdf Eckard Wimmer Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, USA
    pdf Vadim Agol Moscow State University, Russia
    pdf Rudolf Tangermann World Health Organisation, Geneva, Switzerland
    Robert S. Scott Rotary Foundation, Evanston, USA
    pdf Olen M. Kew Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,
Atlanta, USA
    pdf Konstantin Chumakov Food and Drug Administration, Maryland, USA
    pdf Tim Petersen Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, Seattle, USA
 
 
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM
  Download the final program here!  
 

 

 
MEETING REPORT
  Skern, T., Archives of Virology 2010, Aug 4.;
100 years poliovirus: from discovery to eradication. A meeting report.
 
       
CD of TALKS
  CD of talks is available. The CD is free but we would ask you to make a donation of 20 EUR/GBP/USD to a charity fighting infectious diseases.
Please contact ulrike.seifert@meduniwien.ac.at
 
     
MEETING LOCATION
  Austrian Academy of Sciences  
  Dr. Ignaz Seipel-Platz 2  
  1010 Vienna, Austria  
     
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
 
Franz X. Heinz, Dieter Blaas, Tim Skern, Georg Stingl, Eckard Wimmer
 
     
SPONSORS
  Baxter
 
  Bundesministerium für Gesundheit  
  Bundesministerium für Wissenschaft und Forschung  
  GlaxoSmithKline  
  Intercell  
  Max F. Perutz Laboratories  
  Novartis Austria  
  Österreichische Gesellschaft für Hygiene, Mikrobiologie u. Präventivmedizin  
    Österreichische Gesellschaft für Molekulare Biowissenschaften und Biotechnologie  
    Rotary Club Austria  
    Sanofi Austria  
    Wissenschafts- und Forschungsförderung der
Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien/MA7
 
     
FORTBILDUNG
  Für die Teilnahme an dem Symposium werden 10 Punkte im Fach Virologie von der Ärztekammer vergeben  
       
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