Dr. Hari Mohan Saxena, Professor of Immunology at Guru Angad Dev Veterinary And Animal Sciences University, Ludhiana, has been selected for the prestigious Global Health Travel Award for participation in the Keystone Symposium on New Approaches to Vaccines for Human and Veterinary Tropical Diseases being organized at Cape Town, South Africa in May, 2016. The award is supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and will cover all the conference-related expenses including meeting registration, lodging and airfare. Dr. Saxena has been doing innovative research on vaccines for important livestock diseases and his team has developed a new marker vaccine for Hemorrhagic Septicemia of cattle and a novel therapeutic vaccine for bovine Brucellosis.
The participants of this high profile meeting include scientists from multinational giants like Novartis, Genetech, Glaxo Smith Kline Vaccines and European Vaccine Initiative as well as the academic elite from the Nature Publishing Group, Universities of Oxford and Stanford, the National Institutes of Health, USA, The Pasteur Institute, Paris, The Jenner Institute, UK, International Livestock Research Institute, Kenya, and the Plum Island Animal Disease Centre, and the Craig Venter Institute, USA. Scientists from Canada, Switzerland, Australia, Italy, Spain, Germany, Brazil, Argentina, Denmark, Netherlands and several African countries will also participate in the conference.
Keystone Symposia is a premier, nonprofit, life science research and education organization that has been accelerating life science discovery through high-quality research conferences in different parts of the world. The Global Health Travel Award enables scientists from countries where the health problems are endemic to attend the conference on those topics to advance the life sciences and accelerate discoveries that benefit society. The selection is based on the criteria that the applicant is working in the subject area covered by the meeting and making a clinically or scientifically significant contribution to the area.
