POSTPONED
Lecture of Marco Vignuzzi, head of the Viral Populations and Pathogenesis Unit at Institute Pasteur

’Out of the Box: Twenty Years of Targeting Virus Infections Unconventionally’ is the title of the lecture to be held by Dr Marco Vignuzzi, at the SASA Grand Hall, on Thursday 14 April. He is one of the leading world virologists, the head of the Viral Populations and Pathogenesis Unit at Institute Pasteur in Paris (France), an institution whose researchers have received 10 Nobel Prizes in physiology and medicine and infective diseases research. Dr Vignuzzi has had very fruitful cooperation with a network of research institutions around the world, which resulted in some of the most instrumental publications concerning Covid-19. In addition to this, Dr Vignuzzi’s research team focuses on a wide spectre of research – from viral evolution and population dynamics, and computational and mathematical virology, to vaccine and drug development.

Dr Vignuzzi has cooperated with Serbian researchers too, within the SMART Repurposing project, also endorsed by SASA and led by Academician Radomir N. Saičić. The guest lecture of Dr Vignuzzi represents an extraordinary opportunity to update both the scientific and general public on the most recent developments in the field of virology, encompassing the current Covid-19 pandemic, as well as other viruses, which may represent a threat to public health and an incentive for the development of adequate medical strategies. He will also give an account of how the viral laboratory of Institute Pasteur worked during the pandemic, which is of interest to the general public.

A live broadcast of the conference is available on the official SASA website: (https://www.sanu.ac.rs/direktan-prenos/)