The future of Infection Innovation: exploring the role of Human Challenge in research

The future of Infection Innovation: exploring the role of Human Challenge

Tuesday 9^th June 2026, hosted by Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Agenda

10:00 – 10:20

Opportunity to tour the Facilities

10:30 – 11:00

Registration and coffee

11:00 – 11:30

Keynote 1 – Professor Sir Andrew Pollard, Director of Oxford Vaccine Group

From Concept to Deployment using CHIM: The Making of a Vaccine in 21st Century

11:30 – 12:00

Keynote 2 – Professor Richard Fitzgerald, Clinical Director of Human Challenge Facility; LSTM

Challenging Disease for Future Change: Introducing Liverpool's Human Challenge Facility

12:00 – 12:30

Expert Panel - Session 1

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch

13:00 – 13:20

Opportunity to tour the Facilities

13:30 – 14:00

Keynote 3 – Professor Anna Durbin, Director of Centre for Immunization Research; Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Deliberate exposure: Deliberate Insight - Enabling Transformation using Human Vector Challenge

14:00 – 14:30

Keynote 4 – Dr Andrea Collins, Senior Clinical Lecturer; LSTM and Professor Daniela Ferreira, Professor of Respiratory Infection and Vaccinology; University of Oxford

Shared Science: Shared Success: Collaborating for Impact

14:30 – 15:00

Expert Panel - Session 2

15:00 – 15:30

Close

15:30 – 15:50

Opportunity to tour the Facilities