Conference President

Giorgio Cini Foundation

President Silvio Tronchetti Provera Foundation

Mayor of Venice

Italian Ministry of Health

Conference Secretary General

Luc Montagnier, 2008 Nobel Prize in Medicine. World Foundation AIDS Research & Prevention, UNESCO, Paris, France.

Robert Gallo, Director and Professor, Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, USA.

Felice Casson, Senator, Former Magistrate

Dorothy Crawford, Professor of Medical Microbiology and Assistant Principal for Public Understanding of Medicine, University of Edinburgh, UK.

Nathan Wolfe, Lorry I. Lokey Visiting Professor in Human Biology, Stanford University; Founder and CEO, Global Viral Forecasting, USA.

John Coffin, American Cancer Society Research Professor, Department of Microbiology, Tufts University, Boston, USA.

Ilaria Capua, Director, OIE/FAO International Reference Laboratory for Newcastle Disease and Avian Influenza and OIE Collaborating Center for Diseases at the human-animal interface, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Italy.

Wafaa El Khoury, Plant Production and Protection Division, FAO, Rome, Italy.

Wilhelm Gruissem, Professor, Department of Biology, Plant Biotechnology, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland.

Giuseppe Ippolito, Scientific Director National Institute for Infectious Diseases Lazzaro Spallanzani, Rome, Italy

Charles Rice, Professor, Laboratory of Virology and Infectious Disease; Scientific and Executive Director,

Center for the Study of Hepatitis C, The Rockefeller University, NY, USA.

Ilaria Capua, Director, OIE/FAO International Reference Laboratory for Newcastle Disease and Avian Influenza and OIE Collaborating Center for Diseases at the human-animal interface, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale delle Venezie, Italy.

Heinz Feldmann, Lab. of Virology, Division of Intramural Research, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, National Institutes of Health, Hamilton, Montana. USA.

Alberto Mantovani, Professor, Università degli Studi di Milano; Scientific Director, Istituto Clinico Humanitas, Milan, Italy.

Rino Rappuoli, Global Head, Vaccines Research, Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, Siena, Italy.

Robin Weiss, Professor of Viral Oncology, Division of Infection and Immunity, University College London, UK.

Genoveffa Franchini, Chief, Animal Models & Retroviral Vaccines Section, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, USA.

Harvey Alter, Chief, Clinical Studies & Associate Director for Research, Department of Transfusion Medicine, National Institute of Health, Bethesda, USA.

Luigi Naldini, Director, HSR-TIGET, San Raffaele Telethon Institute for Gene Therapy, Professor of Tissue Biology and Gene and Cell Therapy "Vita - Salute San Raffaele" University Medical School

Marc Ostfield, Director, Office of Policy and Global Issues, Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs, U.S. Department of State, Washington, USA.

John Mackenzie, Professor, Tropical Infectious Diseases; Curtin University, Australia.

Manuela Kron, Director, Corporate Affairs, Nestlé, Italy.

Massimiano Bucchi, Professor of Science and Technology in Society, Department of Sociology of Science, University of Trento, Italy.