External Events

ESCMID Foundation: Lead with impact: Fostering collaboration and navigating complexity

04 - 05 March 2026, Basel, Switzerland

“Lead with Impact” is an immersive leadership development course designed by Trivium - global experts in participatory leadership, team development and experiential learning.

This training empowers healthcare and scientific professionals to cultivate inclusive team cultures, lead with emotional intelligence, and drive performance in complex, multi-stakeholder environments. Participants will engage in hands-on sessions, strategic simulations, and co-creation exercises designed to build resilience, decision-making skills, and trust within teams.

51st Annual Meeting of the Portuguese Society for Immunology (SPI)

18 - 20 March 2026 in Convento de São Francisco, Coimbra, Portugal

Join SPI in Coimbra for a meeting at the frontier of immunology shaped by cutting-edge biotechnology—ranging from molecular engineering to transformative clinical applications. Sessions will span: Immune engineering and cellular therapies; Precision immunomodulation; Infection and host defence; Cancer immunotherapy and Systems and computational immunology.

An exceptional panel of national and international speakers will share their expertise, linking basic science, clinical innovation, and industrial perspectives. SPI aims to bring together researchers, clinicians, students, and partners from biotech and pharma for a dynamic and inspiring exchange.

RSC Symposium: Integrating chemistry, engineering and biology to create the next generation of vaccines

30 March 2026 in Cambridge, UK

This event aims to bring together physical scientists and life scientists to devise new approaches to vaccines that could have great impact on human and animal health. The symposium will be hosted in the beautiful and historic Queens’ College in the centre of Cambridge. Through talks and posters and discussions, attendees will consider some of the latest approaches to create effective vaccines, exchange ideas, and nucleate collaborations to overcome existing barriers.

The latest vaccines have depended upon advances in areas including nanotechnology, lipid/carbohydrate/nucleic acid modification, genomics, computational design, analytical chemistry and atomic resolution structural analysis. The event is intended to welcome life scientists without a background in physical sciences, as well as physical scientists with no background knowledge of the immune system or vaccines but who have an interest to explore possible applications of their research. The event is organised through RSC Biotechnology Group, in partnership with Cambridge University Engineering Biology Interdisciplinary Research Centre.

ESCMID Global 2026

17 - 21 April 2026 in Munich, Germany

Leading experts in infectious diseases and clinical microbiology meet at ESCMID Global to exchange ideas and explore the latest innovations. ESCMID invites you to five days, including Education Friday for the first time, all packed with keynote lectures, oral sessions, workshops, symposia, meet-the-expert sessions and poster presentations, making it the world’s most eminent event in the field of infection.

APVIC 2026 – Asia-Pacific Vaccine and Immunotherapy Congress

06 – 08 May 2026 at Matrix, Biopolis, Singapore

APVIC 2026 will convene over 400 international and regional leaders, researchers, clinicians, and industry partners for three days of cutting-edge science, exciting collaboration and forward-looking discussions shaping the future of vaccines and immunotherapies.

A key highlight of the congress will be the Peter Doherty Oration, delivered by Professor Sarah Gilbert, University of Oxford’s Pandemic Sciences Institute, whose work has transformed global pandemic preparedness and vaccine development.