Vaccine symposium

Organized by Utrecht University, National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM) and the Section Vaccinology of the KNVM.

Thursday 17 September 2026

On 17 September the Utrecht University, the RIVM and the Section Vaccinology of the KNVM will jointly organize the national Vaccine Symposium at the UMC Utrecht in Utrecht, this year entitled:

Artificial Intelligence in Vaccine Development

For this event, we will have multiple keynote speakers, in addition to several early-career speakers who will be selected from submitted abstracts.

Keynote speakers 2026

Clara Schoeder
Medical Faculty, Leipzig University, Germany
“Vaccine design with artificial intelligence tools - enabling rapid antigen discovery for pandemic preparedness”

Mark Bakkers
ForgeBio BV, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“AI-Guided Engineering of Stabilized Glycoproteins for Next-Generation Vaccines”

Johannes Textor
Medical BioSciences, Radboud UMC, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
“Artificial Immune Systems in Vaccine R&D”
Alex Yermanos
Center for Translational Immunology, UMC Utrecht, The Netherlands
Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, Basel, Switzerland
“Leveraging artificial intelligence and bioinformatics to understand, predict, and engineer adaptive immune recognition”
   

 

Registration

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