Prof James Beeson
Scientific committeeDeputy Director, Research Strategy; Head, Malaria Immunity and Vaccines Group, Burnet Institute
12–14 July 2027 · Hilton Singapore Orchard · Singapore
NULLIFY 2027 programme & workshops.
Explore the tentative session-by-session programme, proposed faculty, speaker roles and supplied talk titles, with four pre-summit workshop tracks in Singapore.
Tentative programme. Session placements, timings and formats are proposed and subject to change. All times are Singapore time (UTC+08:00). Individual talk titles are shown where supplied; others remain to be confirmed. Faculty photographs come from the published event dashboard.
Scientific committee.
Prof Sylvie Alonso
Scientific committeeProfessor and Co-Chair, Infectious Diseases Translational Research Programme; Deputy Director, Life Sciences Institute, National University of Singapore
Further committee members will be announced.
Pre-summit workshops.
Four half-day deep-dive tracks. A and B run concurrently in the morning; C and D run concurrently in the afternoon. Workshop leads are being confirmed. Each track is available for single-sponsor hosting; see registration for workshop booking and current fees.
08:30 — Workshop Registration & Welcome Coffee · 12:30 — Lunch · 17:00 — Workshops Close
Measuring Waning Immunity
Statistical approaches, cohort design, antibody-kinetics modelling, serology harmonisation and standardised correlates assays
Open for workshop lead proposals: Biostatistics, epidemiology, serology or correlates assay standardisation
Workshop sponsorship available · Workshop A partner
Adjuvant Formulation for Durability
Formulation science masterclass
Open for workshop lead proposals: Adjuvant or formulation science
Workshop sponsorship available · Workshop B partner
Regulatory Submissions for Booster Indications
EMA/FDA guidance on durability claims
Open for workshop lead proposals: Regulatory affairs or agency perspective
Workshop sponsorship available · Workshop C partner
LMIC Vaccine Deployment
Cold chain, thermostability and population waning
Open for workshop lead proposals: Immunisation programmes, supply chain or global health
Workshop sponsorship available · Workshop D partner
Foundations
Waning immunity · Immune memory · Correlates of protection
Registration & Networking Coffee
Welcome & Opening Keynote: The Durability of Immune Memory
Proposed speakers
Keynote: Germinal Centres & the Making of Long-Lived Immunity
Proposed speakers
Prof Shane Crotty
Professor & Chief Scientific Officer (CSO) | La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI)
Individual talk title to be confirmed.
Platinum Partner Keynote Slot
Reserved for Platinum Partner · Sponsorship available
Networking Coffee Break
B-Cell Memory, Plasma Cells & Germinal Centre Responses
Proposed speakers
Prof Michela Locci
Associate Professor, University of Pennsylvania
Individual talk title to be confirmed.
ADDITIONAL SPEAKER SOUGHT • Long-lived plasma cells or bone-marrow niches
Antibody Imprinting & Pre-existing Immunity
Proposed speakers
Dr Kevin John Selva
Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
Talk title: Lasting first impressions: Pre-existing immunity shapes future antibody responses
ADDITIONAL SPEAKER SOUGHT • Imprinting or repeat-vaccination immunology
T-Cell Memory & Longevity
Proposed speakers
Prof Alessandro Sette
Session KeynoteProfessor and Member, Co-Director LJI Center for Vaccine Innovation, LJI Center for Autoimmunity and Inflammation, LJI Center for Cancer Immunotherapy, Adjunct Prof., University of California, School of Medicine, La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Individual talk title to be confirmed.
Prof Guido Silvestri
Professor & Chair, Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University
Individual talk title to be confirmed.
Sponsor-hosted Lunch Roundtable
Lunch & hosted roundtables · Host sponsorship available
Correlates of Protection, Assays & Antibody Kinetics
Proposed speakers
Dr Chan Kuan Rong
Senior Principal Research Scientist, Duke-NUS Medical School
Talk title: Antibody and T cell protection: Two sides of the same coin?
Prof Laurent Renia
Professor of Infectious Diseases, Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine, Nanyang Technological University
Individual talk title to be confirmed.
ADDITIONAL SPEAKER SOUGHT • Serology harmonisation, standardised correlates assays or antibody-kinetics modelling
Hybrid Immunity: How Infection and Vaccination Shape Durability
OPEN FOR SPEAKER PROPOSALS • How infection and vaccination together change the duration of protection
Gold Partner Presentation
Reserved for Gold Partner · Sponsorship available
Networking Coffee Break
Immunosenescence & Human Challenge Models: Measuring Durability
Proposed speakers
Prof Peter Openshaw
Session KeynoteProfessor of Experimental Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London
Individual talk title to be confirmed.
Dr Carolien van de Sandt
Team Leader & Senior Research Fellow, Murdoch Children's Research Institute (MCRI); Honorary Senior Research Fellow, University of Melbourne
Talk title: The Ageing Immune System and Its Battle with Viruses: Why Protection Declines with Age
Prof Anthony Cunningham
Director, Centre for Virus Research, The Westmead Institute for Medical Research Professor, Faculty of Medicine and Health, University of Sydney
Talk title: Countering immunosenescence with vaccines
ADDITIONAL SPEAKER SOUGHT • Controlled human infection models, a direct way to measure durability
Panel: Interpreting Real-World Effectiveness Data Across Variant Waves
OPEN FOR SPEAKER PROPOSALS • Epidemiology, surveillance, real-world evidence or data science
Opening Gala Reception
Sessions close 17:30 · Faculty, delegate and partner networking · Sponsorship available
Engineering Durability
Antigen design · Adjuvants · Next-generation platforms · Mucosal vaccines
Registration & Networking Coffee
Nanotechnology & Delivery for Durable Protection
Proposed speakers
Prof Thomas J. Webster
Professor, Division of Pre-College and Undergraduate Studies, Brown University
Talk title: Self-assembled nanomaterials passivating viruses and bacteria: Clinical studies
Platinum Partner Keynote Slot
Reserved for Platinum Partner · Sponsorship available
Antigen Design for Breadth & Longevity
Proposed speakers
Prof Rino Rappuoli
Session KeynoteScientific Director, Fondazione Biotecnopolo di Siena, Italy
Individual talk title to be confirmed.
Prof Pamela J. Bjorkman
David Baltimore Professor of Biology and Biological Engineering; Merkin Institute Professor, Caltech
Talk title: A COVID-19 booster that could prevent another pandemic
Prof Ian Wilson
Hansen Professor of Structural Biology, Chairman Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, Scripps Research
Individual talk title to be confirmed.
Prof Jonathan Heeney
Professor of Vaccinology, University of Cambridge; CSO, DIOSynVax Ltd (UK)
Talk title: Leveraging AI to engineer broadly protective vaccines to prevent future epidemics and pandemics
ADDITIONAL SPEAKER SOUGHT • Industry antigen-engineering perspective
Networking Coffee Break
Adjuvants & Innate Activation
Proposed speakers
Prof Ken J. Ishii
Session KeynoteProfessor, Division of Vaccine Science, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Tokyo
Individual talk title to be confirmed.
Prof Clare Bryant
Professor of Innate Immunity, University of Cambridge
Individual talk title to be confirmed.
Sponsor-hosted Lunch Roundtable
Lunch & hosted roundtables · Host sponsorship available
Next-Generation Platforms: mRNA/saRNA, Vector, Protein & DNA
Proposed speakers
Prof Dan Hung Barouch
Session KeynoteWilliam Bosworth Castle Professor of Medicine, Harvard University
Individual talk title to be confirmed.
Dr Kate Broderick
Chief Scientific and Innovation Officer, Artis BioSolutions
Individual talk title to be confirmed.
Dr Christopher Locher
CEO and Co-Founder, Versatope Therapeutics
Individual talk title to be confirmed.
Prof Guido Grandi
Senior Professor of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, Università degli Studi di Trento
Individual talk title to be confirmed.
ADDITIONAL SPEAKER SOUGHT • mRNA or self-amplifying RNA developer
Gold Partner Presentation
Reserved for Gold Partner · Sponsorship available
Networking Coffee Break
Mucosal & Intranasal Vaccines: Tissue-Resident and Mucosal Memory
Proposed speakers
Prof Sylvie Alonso
Session KeynoteProfessor Department of Microbiology and Immunology, National University of Singapore
Talk title: A promising mucosal dendritic cell-targeting vaccine delivery platform to fight respiratory pathogens
Prof Peter Openshaw
Professor of Experimental Medicine, National Heart & Lung Institute, Imperial College London
Individual talk title to be confirmed.
ADDITIONAL SPEAKER SOUGHT • Intranasal platform developer or clinical lead, tissue-resident memory
Track: Mosquito-borne & Emerging Viral Vaccines
Proposed speakers
Prof James Beeson
Session ChairDeputy Director, Research Strategy; Head, Malaria Immunity and Vaccines Group, Burnet Institute
Talk title: Achieving malaria vaccines with long-lasting protection: insights from clinical trials and experimental approaches
Prof Linfa WANG
Session KeynoteProfessor, Programme in Emerging Infectious Disease, Duke-NUS Medical School
Individual talk title to be confirmed.
Prof Justin Chu
Session KeynoteAssociate Professor, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, NUS
Talk title: Preclinical development of a RESHAPE Genome-Recoded Live-Attenuated Mosquito-borne orthoflavivirus vaccine
Prof Vineet D. Menachery
Associate Professor Department of Pediatrics Emory Vaccine Center Member Emory University School of Medicine
Individual talk title to be confirmed.
Summit Gala Dinner
Sessions close 17:30 · Faculty, VIP and partner networking · Sponsorship available
Policy, Equity & the Future
Trial design · Regulation · LMIC programmes · AI · Preparedness · Future directions
Registration & Networking Coffee
Morning Keynote: Durability of Booster Programmes, Population Waning & Elimination Goals
Proposed speakers
Prof Peter McIntyre
Professor and Head of Department of Paediatrics and Child Health, University of Otago
Individual talk title to be confirmed.
ADDITIONAL SPEAKER SOUGHT • Cost-effectiveness, dosing intervals, NITAG/policy perspective for payers and governments
Regulatory Pathways for Durability Claims (FDA / EMA / WHO)
Proposed speakers
Dr Giada Mattiuzzo
Head of Viral Vaccines, R&D, Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
Individual talk title to be confirmed.
ADDITIONAL SPEAKER SOUGHT • Regulatory agency perspective
Platinum Partner Keynote Slot
Reserved for Platinum Partner · Sponsorship available
Networking Coffee Break
LMIC Programmes, Maternal & Infant Vaccines & Population Waning
Proposed speakers
Prof Maria Elena Bottazzi
Professor, Departments of Pediatrics (Tropical Medicine) and Molecular Virology and Microbiology, Integrative Molecular and Biomedical Sciences Program, and Translational Biology and Molecular Medicine Program, Baylor College of Medicine
Individual talk title to be confirmed.
Prof Beate Kampmann
Director, Institute of International Health and Scientific Director, Charité Centre for Global Health, Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Germany
Individual talk title to be confirmed.
ADDITIONAL SPEAKER SOUGHT • Maternal antibody decay, infant protection and equity, Gavi / UNICEF perspective
Sponsor-hosted Lunch Roundtable
Lunch & hosted roundtables · Host sponsorship available
AI & Computational Vaccine Design
Proposed speakers
Dr Jacob Glanville
Chief Executive Officer & President, Centivax
Individual talk title to be confirmed.
ADDITIONAL SPEAKER SOUGHT • Machine learning, immunoinformatics or computational structural biology
Gold Partner Presentation
Reserved for Gold Partner · Sponsorship available
Immunocompromised & Older Populations: Durability Where Protection Fails First
OPEN FOR SPEAKER PROPOSALS • Immunocompromised or older-adult cohorts, pandemic-preparedness proposals also welcome in this block
Networking Coffee Break
Future Directions: Towards 21st century vaccines with durable immunity
Proposed speakers
Dr Wayne Koff
Session KeynoteManaging Partner, Next Frontier Advisors
Talk title: Next Generation Vaccines: Towards Optimizing Protective Immunity; Durability; and Global Access
ADDITIONAL SPEAKER SOUGHT • Next-generation vaccine design or durable-immunity perspective
Closing Session: The NULLIFY 2027 Research Agenda
Session lead / moderator
Prof James Beeson
Scientific CommitteeDeputy Director, Research Strategy; Head, Malaria Immunity and Vaccines Group, Burnet Institute
Individual talk title to be confirmed.
With the summit organising team & faculty
Summit Close
Plan your participation in NULLIFY 2027.
Late Advance rates end 20 November 2026 (Singapore time). Standard rates apply from 21 November 2026. Abstracts must be received by 20 November, as stated in the supplied tentative programme.
Review current registration rates, pass inclusions and access conditions before booking. Programme listings do not guarantee that every activity is included in every pass. For speaker proposals, contact akhil.sravan@synergevents.com.