We are now accepting late-breaking abstract submissions for the 6th Vaccines Conference taking place in Lisbon, Portugal from 10 - 13 September 2025. Submissions that highlight innovative approaches, emerging technologies, and challenges in vaccine deployment, particularly in low-resource settings are encouraged.

The deadline to submit is 29 August 2025. Learn more on our website and submit your research today!

Science and Research

This award honours people who demonstrate exceptional skills throughout their involvement with extracurricular activities, teaching, networking, and collaboration within the fields of CM and ID. With typically two awardees chosen, one in CM and one in ID, the awardees receive a prize of 1K EUR as well as coverage of ESCMID Global and ESCMID Summer School travel expenses.

Deadline for application is 30 September 2025.

The open call for the new Vaccines Subcommittee Director position is still open until 31 August 2025. ESCMID members who are experts in the field are encouraged to apply for the chance to build this new subcommittee from the ground up and oversee all of ESCMID’s vaccine related activities. Learn more and apply today!

Education

Are you ready to take your leadership skills to the next level? The ESCMID Foundation invites you to foster your skills to better collaborate with your colleagues and become a more effective team leader. There are two courses coming up this fall: one open to all professionals in September and another dedicated to empowering women in science taking place in October. Gain insights from top facilitators, engage in hands-on coaching, and expand your leadership toolbox. Registration for both courses closes 31 August 2025. 

This dynamic three-day interactive programme is designed for infectious disease and clinical microbiology professionals, public health practitioners, and researchers worldwide. With a focus on the latest outbreaks, antimicrobial resistance, and the One Health approach, the course delivers cutting-edge insights into the drivers, detection, and control of emerging pathogens. Participants will gain practical tools and critical knowledge to enhance surveillance, response, and collaboration in an increasingly interconnected world. Registrations are open until 22 September.

Congress and Events

Join us for an engaging webinar co-hosted with the AMR Policy Accelerator at the Global Strategy Lab. This session will introduce the expected benefits of an IPEA, explore what type of scientific input will be critical to its success, present key elements of the Zero Draft, and offer practical guidance on how researchers can participate in the ongoing consultation led by the Quadripartite.

ESCMID and the European Chapter of the Extracorporeal Life Support Organization (EuroELSO) have come together to organise an upcoming webinar on the relationship between ECMO and infectious diseases. Moderators Annelies Zinkernagel and Jordi Riera are joined by speakers Walter Zingg and Nicolas Brechot to cover this important topic for hospital care and infection.

Guidelines and Journals

Ethics in the field of infectious disease can be a delicate interplay between treating the individual patient and protecting the collective health of a society. In this episode of Communicable, Angela Huttner invites Zeb Jamrozik (Melbourne, Australia) and Beenish Syed (Karachi, Pakistan), two members of ESCMID’s Ethics Advisory Committee, to unpack different scenarios encountered in the field of infectious disease from an ethics standpoint such as allocating scarce resources like antimicrobials, implementing coercive public-health measures like lockdowns, and more.

Significant outbreaks of measles continue worldwide, with Mongolia reporting over 13,000 cases and 10 deaths. Italy is experiencing its worst West Nile virus season with 173 human cases (72 neuroinvasive) and 11 deaths reported between 21 July and 8 August 2025. In North Darfur, more than 1,180 cholera cases and at least 20 deaths have been reported since late June. New wild and vaccine-derived poliovirus cases reported in Pakistan, Chad, and Nigeria; the CDC has issued a Level 2 travel notice. In Thailand, authorities report a marked rise in melioidosis cases during the rainy season, with 2,036 confirmed cases and 92 deaths so far this year. Namibia is experiencing a major malaria outbreak with a six-fold increase in cases compared to 2024.

Endotracheal aspirate as an alternative to bronchoalveolar lavage fluid for the diagnosis of Pneumocystis pneumonia by real-time PCR

Clinical and Genomic Characterization of Serratia Bloodstream Infections

EMA has recommended granting a marketing authorisation in the European Union (EU) for Yeytuo (lenacapavir) for pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) in combination with safer sex practices to reduce the risk of sexually acquired human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) infection in adults and adolescents at high risk of becoming infected.

The European Medicines Agency is pleased to announce that the 5th Veterinary Big Data Stakeholder Forum will take place on Monday, 10 November 2025.