Organizing Chair   Toshiki Watanabe (The University of Tokyo)
     
Honorary President   Mitsuaki Yoshida (The University of Tokyo)
     
International Steering Committee   Abelardo Araujo (FIOCRUZ, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Charles Bangham (Imperial College, London, UK)
Courtenay Bartholomew (University of the West Indies, Port of Spain, Trinidad)
Carlos Brites (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil)
Arsene Burny (FUSAG, Gembloux, Belgium)
Genoveffa Franchini (NCI, NIH, Bethesda, USA)
Antoine Gessain (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)
Steven Jacobson (NINDS, NIH, Bethesda, USA)
William Hall (University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)
Olivier Hermine (Hopital Necker, Paris, France)
Shuji Izumo (Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan)
K. T. Jeang (NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, USA)
Naoki Yamamoto (National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan)
Michael Lairmore (Ohio State University, Columbus, USA)
Susan Marriott (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA)
Masao Matsuoka (Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan)
Nancy Mueller (Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, USA)
Edward Murphy (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
Maria Pombo de Oliveira (Instituto Nacional de Cancer, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
Akihiko Okayama (Miyazaki University, Miyazaki, Japan)
Graham Taylor (Imperial College, London, UK)
     
Scientific Program Committee   Animal Models
Michael Lairmore (Ohio State University, Columbus, USA)
Luc Willems (FUSAG, Gembloux, Belgium)
Hideki Hasegawa (National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan)
Mirdad Kazanji (Institut Pasteur de la Guyane, Cayenne, French Guiana)
     
    Clinical
Shuji Izumo Kagoshima (University, Kagoshima, Japan)
Carlos Brites (Universidade Federal da Bahia, Salvador, Brazil)
Barrie Hanchard (University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica
Atae Utsunomiya (Imamura Bun-in Hospital, Kagoshima, Japan)
Kunihiro Tsukasaki (Nagasaki University, Nagasaki, Japan)
Olivier Hermine (Hopital Necker, Paris, France)
Owen Morgan (University of the West Indies, Kingston, Jamaica)
Graham Taylor (lmperial College, London, UK)
Kazunari Yamaguchi (National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Tokyo, Japan)
Manabu Mochizuki (Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan)
Aluisio Segurado (University of Sao Paulo Medical School, Sao Paulo, Brazil)
Epidemiology
Antoine Gessain (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)
Edward Murphy (University of California, San Francisco, USA)
Fernando Proietti (Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil)
Anne-Mieke Vandamme (Rega Institute, Leuven, Belgium)
Michie Hisada (NCI, NIH, Rockville, USA)
Ricardo Ishak (Universidade Federal do Para, Belem, Brazil)
Akihiko Okayama (Miyazaki University, Miyazaki, Japan)
Shigeo Hino (Tottori University, Yonago, Japan)
Immunology
Charles Bangham (Imperial College, London, UK)
Claudine Pique (Hospital St. Louis, Paris, France)
Steven Jacobson (NINDS, NIH, Bethesda, USA)
Mari Kannagi (Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan)
     
    Molecular Biology
Genoveffa Franchini (NCI, NIH, Bethesda, USA)
Junichi Fujisawa (Kansai Medical University, Moriguchi, Japan)
Ralph Grassmann (Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg, Erlangen, Germany)
K. T. Jeang (NIAID, NIH, Bethesda, USA)
Renaud Mahieux (Institut Pasteur, Paris, France)
Susan Marriott (Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, USA)
Jennifer Nyborg (Colorado State University, Fort Collins, USA)
Lee Ratner (Washington University, St. Louis, USA)
Shoji Yamaoka (Tokyo Medical and Dental University, Tokyo, Japan)
John Semmes (Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, USA)
     
    Virology
David Brighty (The University of Dundee, Dundee, UK)
Vincente Ciminale (University of Padua, Padua, Italy)
Christian Devaux (Laboratoire Infections Retrovirales et Signalisation Cellulaire, Montpellier, France)
Masahiro Fujii (Niigata University, Niigata, Japan)
William Hall (University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland)
Masao Matsuoka (Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan)
Yasuko Sagara (Fukuoka Red Cross Research Institute, Fukuoka, Japan)
Eric Wattel (Centre Leon Berard, Lyon, France)
Patrick Green (Ohio State University, Columbus, USA)
     
Local Committee Members   Yoko Aida (RIKEN)
Naomichi Arima (Kagoshima University)
Masahiro Fujii (Niigata University)
Junichi Fujisawa (Kansai Medical University)
Shigeo Hino (Tottori University)
Yasuo Itoyama (Tohoku University)
Shuji Izumo (Kagoshima University)
Shimeru Kamihira (Nagasaki University)
Mari Kannagi (Tokyo Medical and Dental University)
Hiroshi Kikuchi (Ohita University)
Jun-ichi Kira (Kyushu University)
Mineo Kurokawa (The University of Tokyo)
Masao Matsuoka (Kyoto University)
Masanao Miwa (Nagahama Insutitute of Bio-Science and Technology)
Manabu Mochizuki (Tokyo Medical and Dental University)
Naoki Mori (Ryukyu University)
Masanori Nakagawa (Kyoto Prefectural University of Midicine)
Masataka Nakamura (Tokyo Medical and Dental University)
Tatsufumi Nakamura (Nagasaki University)
Kouichi Ohshima (Kurume University)
Akihiko Okayama (Miyazaki University)
Mitsuhiro Osame (Kagoshima University)
Keiya Ozawa (Jichi Medical School)
Mineki Saitoh (Kagoshima University)
Tadakuni Shimotohno (Kyoto University)
Kazuo Tajima (Aichi Cancer Center)
Hirokuni Taguchi (Kochi University)
Kazuo Tamura (Fukuoka University)
Yuetsu Tanaka (Ryukyu University)
Kensei Tobinai (National Cancer Center)
Arinobu Tojo (The University of Tokyo)
Masao Tomonaga (Nagasaki University)
Takashi Uchiyama (Kyoto University)
Ryuzo Ueda (Nagoya City University)
Kohichiro Usuku (Kumamoto University)
Atae Utsunomiya (Imamura Bun-in Hospital)
Kazunari Yamaguchi (National Institute of Infectious Diseases)
Naoki Yamamoto (National Institute of Infectious Diseases)
Shoji Yamaoka (Tokyo Medical and Dental University)
Junji Yodoi (Kyoto University)