8-9 November 2002, EMBL Heidelberg, Germany
Jan van Aken, Director, German Office, Sunshine Project e.V. and the University of Hamburg, Germany
Denise P. Barlow, Research Scientist, Insitute for Molecular Biology, Salzburg, Austria
Volker Beck, Advisor to the German Foreign Office, Berlin, Germany
Michael Boutros, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, USA
Hermann Bujard, Professor, Center for Molecular Biology, Heidelberg University, Germany
Arachu Castro, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, USA
Paul Farmer, Professor of Medical Anthropology, Department of Social Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, USA
Didier Fassin, Vice-president, Médicins Sans Frontières and Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, School for Advanced Studies in Social Sciences, Paris, France
Freddy Frischknecht, Postdoctoral Fellow, Malaria Biology and Genetics Unit, Pasteur Institute, Paris, France
Laurie Garret, Writer and journalist, Newsday, USA
Michel Glauser, Dean, Faculty of Medicine, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Peter N. Goodfellow, GlaxoSmithKline Pharmaceuticals R&D, Essex, UK
Paul D. van Helden, Director, MRC Centre for Molecular and Cellular Biology, Department of Medical Biochemistry, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Stellenbosch, Tygerberg, South Africa
Janet Hemingway, Director, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, Liverpool, UK
Patricia Kahn, International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, USA
Hans-Georg Kräusslich, Director, Department of Virology, Medical Faculty, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Helena Maekelae, National Public Health Institute, Helsinki, Finland
Carlos Morel, Director, Special Programme for Research and Training in Tropical Diseases [TDR], World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
Rob Ridley, Co-ordinator, Product Research and Development, Tropical Disease Research, WHO, Geneva, Switzerland
Ruth M. Ruprecht, Professor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge, USA
Rainer Sauerborn, Director, Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Yiming Shao, MD, PHD, National Center for AIDS Prevention and Control, Beijing, China
Rachel Snow, Department of Tropical Hygiene and Public Health, University of Heidelberg, Germany
Johannes Sommerfeld, Social, Economic and Behavioural Research, Tropical Disease Research, WHO, Geneva Switzerland
Marcel Tanner, Director, Swiss Tropical Institute, Basel, Switzerland
Giuseppe Testa, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Dresden/Max Planck Institute for Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics, Dresden, Germany
Yeya T. Touré, WHO-Tropical Disease Research Unit, Geneva, Switzerland
John Walker, Arms Control and Disarmament Research Unit, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, London, UK
Robin A. Weiss, Professor of Viral Oncology, University College London, UK