KNVM

On September 17, 2026, Utrecht University, the RIVM and the Section Vaccinology of the KNVM will jointly organize the national Vaccine Symposium at UMC Utrecht, titled:

‘Artificial Intelligence in Vaccine Development ‘

The symposium will feature four distinguished keynote speakers, along with early-career speakers selected from submitted abstracts. Registration is open now! 

Abstract submission deadline: August 27th 2026

Symposium registration deadline: September 10th 2026

We warmly invite you to register early so we can estimate the size of the audience, and to submit an abstract, several of which will be selected for a short talk and join us for a stimulating day of scientific exchange.

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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”

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Organizers: Cécile van Els, Jorgen de Jonge, Jeroen Langereis, Gorben Pijlman, Alice Sijts 

Information: dutchvaccinesymposium@proton.me

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/company/dutch-vaccine-symposium/