第三届Pasteur-Areva培训课: HCV

Organizers: Vincent Deubel, Jin Zhong

Date: October 15-18, 2007

Venue:

Lectures: Meeting room, 2nd floor, Shanghai Information Center for Life Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences, 319 Yueyang Road (Near Zhaojiabang Road), Shanghai

理论课:岳阳路319号（靠近肇家浜路），中国科学院上海生命科学信息中心，二楼会议室

Practical workshop:: Institut Pasteur of Shanghai (IPS), 411 Hefei Road x South Chongqing Road,

实践课：: 上海巴斯德研究所，合肥路411号（近重庆南路)。

Check in course: : Oct 14, 16:30-17:30, Shanghai Information Center for Life Sciences, 319 Yueyang Road

报到：10月14日下午，16:30-17:30, 中国科学院上海生命科学信息中心

Introduction
Hepatitis C virus (HCV), an RNA virus in the Flaviviridae family, is a major causative agent of liver diseases such as chronic hepatitis, liver cirrhosis and hepatocellular carcinoma. One significant feature of HCV infection is its high tendency towards persistence with 75% of acute infections turning into chronic infection. As a result, chronic HCV infection is a major worldwide public health problem, with a prevalence of approximately 170 million virus carriers in the world, more than 20% of which are in China. There is no vaccine available for preventing HCV infection yet, and the approved clinical treatment for chronic HCV infection, a combination of pegylated-interferon and ribavirin, is only about 50% effective and has strong side effect. Therefore, the development of an effective vaccine and antiviral therapies will have huge impact on the public health in China and around the world.

Thanks for the philanthropic support from our partner, AREVA Group, we are able to set up this course. We have successfully held two Pasteur-Areva courses on Avian Flu and AIDS in the past two years. The 3rd Pasteur-Areva course will give a comprehensive overview of epidemiology, virology, molecular and cellular biology on HCV and prevention strategies against HCV infection, and also, there will be the practical course on the cell culture system of HCV.

Agenda of HCV course

Speakers:

Jun Cheng (Beijing Ditan Hospital,China) >>
Matthew J Evans (The Rockefeller University,USA)  >>
Steve Feinstons(FDA,USA) >>
Stanley M. Lemon (University of Texas Medical Branch, USA) >>keynote speaker
Geert Leroux-Roels(Ghent University,Belgium) >>
Jake Liang (NIH, USA) >>
Fengmin Lu(Beijing University Health Science Center,China) >>
Jane Mckeating(University of Birmingham,Uk) >>
Eliane Meurs(Institut Pasteur de Paris,France) >>
Edward Murphy(University of California,San Francisco,USA) >>
Johan Neyts(Leuven University,Belgium) >>
Yves Riviere(Institut Pasteur de Paris,France) >>
Tetsuya Toyoda(Institut Pasteur of Shanghai,China) >>
Takaji Wakita(Natioal Institute of Infectious Diseases,Japan) >>
Zhenghong Yuan (Shanghai Medical College, Fudan University, China) >>
Xinxin Zhang(Shanghai Ruijin Hospital,China) >>
Jin Zhong(Institut Pasteur of Shanghai,China) >>

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