The 3rd International Online Conference on Vaccines
The 3rd International Online Conference on Vaccines
Part of the International Electronic Conference on Vaccines series
Event's Timezone: Central European Time
31 July 2025
29 August 2025
23 November 2025
Vaccine Technology, Immunopathogenesis, Mucosal Vaccines, Vectored Vaccines, Vaccine Adjuvants, Vaccine Delivery, Immunotherapy, Cancer Vaccines
Welcome from the Chair
We are pleased to announce the 3rd International Online Conference on Vaccines (IOCV 2025), which will be held online and promoted by the open access MDPI journal Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X, IF 5.2).
The vaccine research field is constantly moving forward to address crucial challenges in developing novel vaccines, enhancing existing platforms and model systems for infectious diseases and cancer. This edition of IOCV will highlight groundbreaking research on innovative vaccine delivery methods, mucosal vaccines for respiratory disease, vectored vaccines, models for vaccine development and evaluation, new approaches for vaccine adjuvants and emerging approaches in cancer immunotherapy. A deeper understanding of immune responses to both infectious disease and cancer vaccines as well as novel strategies for enhancement, delivery and evaluation are essential for advancement of human and veterinary vaccinology.
The IOCV 2025 invites researchers from academia, as well as vaccine practitioners, to contribute original findings, novel ideas, scientific concepts, and technological advancements related to the following:
S1. Mucosal Vaccines for Respiratory Disease;
S2. Vectored Vaccines;
S3. Models for Vaccine Development and Evaluation;
S4. New Approaches for Vaccine Adjuvants;
S5. New Methods for Vaccine Delivery;
S6. Cancer Vaccines and Immunotherapy.
As a fully online conference, IOCV 2025 provides a unique opportunity for researchers worldwide to participate without travel constraints, facilitating the real-time exchange of the latest findings and innovative ideas.
Your contributions and engagement are vital to the success of this 3rd edition of the IOCV. We look forward to your participation in shaping the future of vaccine research!
Kind regards,
Professor Sara Louise Cosby
School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Virology, Veterinary Sciences Division, Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, UK
Event Chair
School of Medicine, Dentistry and Biomedical Sciences, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Virology, Veterinary Sciences Division, Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute, UK
Session Chairs
Prof. Dr. Mona O. Mohsen
Department of Biomedical Research, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Prof. Dr. Srinivasa Reddy Bonam
1. Department of Microbiology and Immunology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, USA; 2. Bapatla College of Pharmacy, Bapatla, India
Prof. Dr. Silvio Tafuri
Interdisciplinary Department of Medicine, Aldo Moro University of Bari, Bari, Italy
Prof. Dr. Seth Pincus
Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, Montana State University, Bozeman, USA
Prof. Dr. Jorge H. Leitão
Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
Event Committees
Division of Biomedical and Life Sciences, Furness College, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK
Department of Veterinary Biosciences, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA
1. Department of Public Health, School of Health Sciences, Ashkelon Academic College, Ashkelon, Israel;,
2. School of Public Health, Faculty of Health Sciences, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel
Department of Pharmacology, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, USA
Department of Biomedicine and Prevention, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy
Medical Management, Hygiene, Epidemiology and Hospital Infection, University Hospital of Sassari, Sassari, Italy
Department of Radiology, Michigan State University, East Lansing, USA
Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, USA
Department of Public Health Policy, School of Public Health, University of West Attica, Greece
Division of Infectious Disease and International Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA
Department of Veterinary Microbiology, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, Saskatoon, Canada
Laboratory of Microbiology, Democritus University of Thrace, Komotini, Greece
Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-En-Yvelines, Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Registration
The registration for IOCV 2025 will be free of charge! The registration includes attendance to all conference sessions.
If you are registering several people under the same registration, please do not use the same email address for each person, but their individual university email addresses. Thank you for your understanding.
Please note that the submission and registration are two separate parts. Only scholars who registered can receive a link to access the conference live streaming. The deadline for registration is 23 November 2025.
Instructions for Authors
IOCV 2025 will accept abstracts only. The accepted abstracts will be available online on Sciforum.net during and after the conference.
Important Deadlines
- Deadline for abstract submission: 31 July 2025
- Announcement of oral and poster abstract results: 29 August 2025. You will be notified of the acceptance of an oral/poster presentation in a separate email.
Certificates of Participation are available in your logged-in area of Sciforum.net, under “My Certificates” after the conference.
1. The abstract structure should include the introduction, methods, results, and conclusions sections of about 200–300 words in length.
2. All abstracts should be submitted and presented in clear, publication-ready English with accurate grammar and spelling.
3. You may submit multiple abstracts. However, only one abstract will be selected for oral presentation.
The slot for the oral presentation is 15 mins. We advise that your presentation lasts for a maximum of 12 mins, leaving at least 3 mins for the Q&A session. Authors are encouraged to prepare a presentation in PowerPoint or similar software, to be displayed online along with the abstract. Slides, if available, will be displayed directly on the website using the proprietary slide viewer at Sciforum.net. Slides can be prepared in exactly the same way as for any traditional conference where research results are presented. Slides should be converted to PDF format prior to submission so that they can be converted for online display.
- Poster should include the title, authors, contact details and main research findings, as well as tables, figures and graphs where necessary.
- File format: PDF (.pdf).
- Size in pixel: 1080 width x 1536 height–portrait orientation.
- Size in cm: 38,1 width x 54,2 height–portrait orientation.
- Font size: ≥16.Examples of successful submissions can be viewed here at the following links: (1), (2), (3).
You can use our free template to create your poster. The poster template can be downloaded HERE.
Authors who wish to present a poster are invited to send it to the conference email at iocv2025@mdpi.com. All posters will be permanently exhibited online in the Poster Gallery.
It is the author's responsibility to identify and declare any personal circumstances or interests that may be perceived as inappropriately influencing the representation or interpretation of clinical research. If there is no conflict, please state "The authors declare no conflicts of interest." This should be conveyed in a separate "Conflicts of Interest" statement preceding the "Acknowledgments" and "References" sections at the end of the manuscript. Any financial support for the study must be fully disclosed in the "Acknowledgments" section.
MDPI, the publisher of the Sciforum.net platform, is an open access publisher. We believe authors should retain the copyright to their scholarly works. Hence, by submitting an abstract to this conference, you retain the copyright to the work, but you grant MDPI the non-exclusive right to publish this abstract online on the Sciforum.net platform. This means you can easily submit your full paper (with the abstract) to any scientific journal at a later stage and transfer the copyright to its publisher if required.
Publication Opportunities
Participants in this conference are cordially invited to contribute a full manuscript to the conference's Special Issue (will be announced soon), published in Vaccines (ISSN 2076-393X, Impact Factor 5.2), with a 10% discount on the publication fee. Please note that no other discounts are applicable. All submitted papers will undergo MDPI’s standard peer-review procedure. The abstracts should be cited and noted on the first page of the paper.
All accepted abstracts will be published in the conference report of The 3rd International Online Conference on Vaccines in Medical Sciences Forum (ISSN: 2673-9992); if you wish to publish an extended proceeding paper (4-8 pages), please submit it to the same journal after the conference. There will be no additional fees.
Proceedings submission deadline: 15 January 2026.
Manuscripts for the proceedings issue must be formatted as follows:
Title
Full author names
Affiliations (including full postal address) and authors' e-mail addresses
Abstract
Keywords
Introduction
Methods
Results and Discussion
Conclusions
Acknowledgements
References.
IOCV 2025 Proceeding Paper Template
Event Awards
The Awards
Number of Awards Available: 6
The Best Poster Awards are given to the submission judged to make the most significant and interesting poster for the conference.
Sponsors and Partners
For information regarding sponsorship and exhibition opportunities, please click here.
Organizers
Media Partners
Conference Secretariat
Ms. Amy Chen
Ms. Quincy Zhang
Ms. Theodora Felegean
Email: iocv2025@mdpi.com
For inquiries regarding submissions and sponsorship opportunities, please feel free to contact us.
