“ICGEB for COVID-19: enable locally to recover globally” Virtual Symposium

The ICGEB symposium on COVID19 highlights ICGEB activities related to COVID-19 and feedback on how to cooperate against future challenges – playlist now available

October 24-25, 2021, the symposium dealt with the current and expected evolution of the COVID-19 pandemic, the tools to study the SARS-CoV-2 infection, new mechanisms of the disease, anti-viral drug development, vaccines, and the immune response to the SARS-CoV-2 infection.

The Symposium, which was open to scientists from the ICGEB Member States, is now available online in a new playlist.

Speakers include:

Marycelin Baba – University of Maiduguri, Nigeria 
Lawrence Banks – ICGEB, Trieste, Italy 
Anmol Chandele – ICGEB New Delhi, India 
Mauro Giacca – King’s College London, UK and ICGEB Trieste, Italy 
Ubaldo Gioia – IFOM, Milan, Italy 
Alessandro Marcello – ICGEB Trieste, Italy
Cesar Muñoz-Fontela – Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine, Hamburg, Germany  
Miroslav Petrovec  – Institute of Microbiology and Immunology, Ljubljana, Slovenia 
Francesca Polverino – University of Arizona College of Medicine, Tucson, USA 
Pei-Yong Shi – University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA  
Fulvia Vascotto – TRON, Mainz, Germany 
Serena Zacchigna – ICGEB Trieste, Italy