National RCE Meeting April 6th - 8th 2008
The fifth National RCE Meeting was held in Chicago April 6-8, 2008. It was a huge success thanks to the immense cooperation of the nearly 300 attendees, researchers program officers and administrative teams.
Dr Anthony Fauci, Director of NIAID reviewed 5 years of extraordinary science and presented his directives for the next period of funding.
Dr Rona Hirschberg, Senior Program Officer, shared the most remarkable lessons learnt thanks to the RCE program evaluation
Dr Christopher Walsh of Harvard Medical School, presented a comprehensive landscape of Antibiotics and the coming challenges for the development of new antimicrobial drugs
Dr Bernard Roizman, of the University of Chicago, shared his deep knowledge of virus pathogenesis
Acknowledgment
We gratefully acknowledge support from our sponsors :
Battelle Memorial Institute
the University of Chicago
NIAID