Plasmodium vivax is now the predominant cause of malaria outside sub-Saharan Africa and is considered to be a key obstacle to malaria elimination.

The unique biology of P. vivax with features such as the latent hypnozoite stage and early gametocytogenesis makes it more difficult to control and eliminate than P. falciparum. The development of P. vivax-specific interventions is thus clearly a priority for the malaria elimination research agenda. Development of tools that will allow the program to accelerate towards P. vivax elimination requires a bench-to-bedside-to-public health approach that facilitates collaborative, interdisciplinary research.

The International Conferences on Plasmodium vivax Research (ICPVR) are the only global series of conferences dedicated entirely to research on P. vivax malaria. ICPVR 2019 will bring together 250-300 researchers working on diverse aspects of P. vivax research from basic cell and molecular biology to field epidemiology, vector and clinical studies.

The conference will serve as an excellent opportunity to review progress made in different areas of P. vivax research, define knowledge gaps and provide opportunities to researchers to explore collaborative research strategies to address them. Overall the goal of the meeting is to provide a platform that highlights work on P. vivax, which has often been neglected, but is extremely important in the fight to eliminate malaria.

 

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Local committee

Chetan Chitnis, (Chair), Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Benoît Gamain, Institut National de la Transfusion Sanguine (INTS), Paris, France

Catherine Lavazec, Institut Cochin, France

Didier Ménard, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Ivo Mueller, (Vice Chair), Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Olivier Silvie, Sorbonne Université, France

Georges Snounou, INSERM, Saclay, France

Michael White, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

International Advisory Committee

John Kevin Baird, Eijkman Oxford Clinical Research Unit, Jakarta, Indonesia

Jane Carlton, New York University, New York, United States

Chetan Chitnis, (Chair), Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Hernando A Del Portillo, Barcelona Institute fro Global Health - ISGlobal, Badalona, Spain

Ingrid Felger, Swiss Tropical and Public Health Institute, Basel, Switzerland

Dionicia Gamboa, Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima, Peru

Marcus Lacerda, FIOCRUZ-AM, Manaus, Brazil

Dominique Mazier, Sorbonne Université, Paris, France

Sebastian Mikolajczak, Novartis Institute of Tropical Diseases, Oakland, United States

Angela Minassian, University of Oxford, United Kingdom

Ivo Mueller, (Vice Chair), Institut Pasteur, Paris, France

Jetsumon Prachumsri Sattabangkot, Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand

Neena Valecha, National Institute of Malaria Research, New Delhi, India

 

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