Challenges Posed by Infectious Diseases on the 100th Anniversary

Organising Committee
Reinhard Kurth (Chair)
Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin
Reinhard Burger
Robert Koch-Institut, Berlin
Ulf B. Göbel
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Helmut Hahn
Berliner Medizinische Gesellschaft
Stefan H. E. Kaufmann
Max-Planck-Institut für Infektionsbiologie, Berlin
Symposium
Challenges Posed by
Infectious Diseases on the 100th
Anniversary of Robert Koch´s
Nobel Prize Award
Robert Loddenkemper
Deutsches Zentralkomitee zur Bekämpfung der Tuberkulose, Berlin
Harald Mauch
HELIOS Klinikum Emil von Behring/Heckeshorn, Berlin
Norbert Suttorp
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Martin Zeitz
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Organisation
Robert Koch Institute
Sonja Kiessling
Nordufer 20 · 13353 Berlin
Phone: +49 (0) 30 4547-2515
Fax:
+49 (0) 30 4547-2631
E-Mail: [email protected]
Supported by
October 28 - 29, 2005
Langenbeck-Virchow-Haus
Luisenstraße 58/59 · 10117 Berlin (Mitte)
Bundesministerium für Gesundheit und Soziale Sicherung
Berliner Medizinische Gesellschaft
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Hygiene und Mikrobiologie
CAPNETZ (BMBF funded competence network on community
acquired pneumonia)
Max-Planck-Institut für Infektionsbiologie
Robert Koch-Institut
Symposium
Challenges Posed by
Infectious Diseases on the 100th
Anniversary of Robert Koch´s
Nobel Prize Award
100
Saturday
October 29, 2005
Friday
October 28, 2005
6.00 pm
9.00 - 10.30 am
Session 1
Chair: Norbert Suttorp, Martin Zeitz
Welcoming Addresses
The Challenge of HIV and AIDS
Reinhard Kurth
Robert Koch Institute, Berlin, President
At the end of the 19th century microscopically small pathogens were identified as the cause of numerous infectious
diseases. Robert Koch is considered to be the father of this
medical revolution. In 1905 Koch was awarded the Nobel
Detlev Ganten
Chairman of the Board of Charité –
University Medicine Berlin
Robin Weiss, University College London
0.30 - 1.30 pm
Avian Influenza: Pandora's Box
Lunch
Robert Webster, St. Jude’s Hospital Memphis
1.30 - 3.30 pm
Ulla Schmidt
Minister of Health and Social Security, Berlin
10.30 - 11.00 am
Keynote Lectures
11.00 - 0.30 pm
Coffeebreak
Session 3
Chair: Helmut Hahn, Harald Mauch
Prize for Medicine.
Rational Vaccine Design against Tuberculosis
On the occasion of the anniversary of the Nobel Prize Award,
leading scientists will address the topic of emerging diseases
- a problem that still represents a major challenge for public
health systems.
Chair: Reinhard Burger
Robert Koch, Medical Bacteriology and
the History of Infectious Diseases
e-mail: [email protected],
fax +49-30-4547-2631 or postcard.
Stefan H. E. Kaufmann
Max Planck Institute for Immunobiology, Berlin
Chair: Ulf B. Göbel, Robert Loddenkemper
Dilemmas in Public Health: from Smallpox
to Polio, SARS and Avian Influenza
David Heyman, World Health Organization,
Geneva, Representative of the Director General
for Polio Eradication
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Session 2
Christoph Gradmann, University Heidelberg
7.30 pm
Reception
Prevention of Malaria
Symbiosis between the Innate and
the Adaptive Immune System
Brian Greenwood
London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
Emil Unanue
Washington University School of Medicine
Antibiotic Resistance:
The Footrace between Man and Microbe
Richard P. Wenzel
Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia