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Dutch Vaccine Symposium: Artificial Intelligence in Vaccine Development

Date
17 September 2026
Time
09:00 - 17:00
Location
UMC Utrecht Heidelberglaan 100, Utrecht

On September 17, 9:00-17:00 hr, Utrecht University, 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 4 distinguished keynote speakers, in addition to several early-career speakers who will be selected from submitted abstracts.

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

Mark J.G. Bakkers
ForgeBio BV, Amsterdam; Janssen Vaccines & Prevention BV, Leiden, The Netherlands
“AI-Guided Engineering of Stabilized Glycoproteins for Next-Generation Vaccines”

Johannes Textor
Medical BioSciences, Radboudumc, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
“Artificial Immune Systems in Vaccine R&D”

Alex D. Yermanos
Center for Translational Immunology, University Medical Centre Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, Basel, Switzerland
“Leveraging artificial intelligence and bioinformatics to understand, predict, and engineer adaptive immune recognition”

 

Call for registration and abstracts: coming up soon
Organizers: Cécile van Els, Jorgen de Jonge, Jeroen Langereis, Gorben Pijlman, Alice Sijts