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:

AI-Driven 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 2025

Mathilde Richard
Erasmus University Medical Center; Rotterdam, The Netherlands
“A vaccine antigen central in influenza A(H5) virus antigenic space confers subtype-wide immunity”

Tom Caniels
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“A systems vaccinology approach in the development and evaluation of HIV vaccines”

Galit Alter
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
“Systems serology and vaccine development”
Florian Wimmers
University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
“Systems immunological assessment of vaccine responses in cancer patients”
Rik Lindeboom
The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
“Dissecting human immune response kinetics through controlled SARS- CoV-2 infection”

 

Registration

Registration will be open later this year.