ICTMM2020 Bangkok
In late October 2022 Simon attended the 20th International Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria (ICTMM) held at the Bangkok International Trade and Exhibition Centre (BITEC), Bangkok, Thailand. ICTMM is one of the largest tropical medicine conferences in the world, bringing together thousands of researchers, experts, policy-makers, stakeholders, and international authorities in the field of tropical medicine and malaria.
The Congress covered topics and updates on tropical medicine, including malaria, infectious diseases, non-communicable diseases, neglected diseases, drug resistance, parasitology, zoonoses, travel medicine, and other public-health issues. Simon presented a talk entitled “Recent advances in RH5-based vaccines for blood-stage P. falciparum malaria” in a session on “Malaria Vaccine Development” chaired by Lorenz von Seidlein. Other speakers included Adrian Hill, Patrick Duffy and Kevin Baird whose talks spanned the other lifecycle stages of P. falciparum malaria, as well as P. vivax.
