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🦟💉Combating the West Nile virus through immunology. Funded by @horizoneu.bsky.social (GA 101137248). ➡️ www.lwnvivat.eu
🦠 Meet Eudald Vehí Piqué, a PhD student at IrsiCaixa . As part of his PhD, he is developing tonsil organoids created from human cells to test different vaccines, including those currently under development for the West Nile virus. Learn more a👇

#Vaccines #WestNileVirus
November 25, 2025 at 3:39 PM
🦟 What are the latest updates on #WNV in Europe? Over 1,000 locally acquired human cases of WNV have been reported. This is higher than the average of the past decade for this season but still below the levels seen during major outbreak years. 👇

wnv-monthly.ecdc.europa.eu
November 18, 2025 at 11:52 AM
🙌 This past Tuesday, we hosted another webinar in our ongoing series featuring Prof. César Muñoz-Fontela from the Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine and consultant to the World Health Organization (WHO).

#Ebola #ZoonoticDisease #EmergingDisease #Virus
November 13, 2025 at 9:51 AM
🙌 Join us for the next session in our webinar series

📅 11 October at 3 PM (CET)

🎤 Speaker: César Muñoz-Fontela from Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine

🦟 Topic: Epidemiology of Ebola virus disease

💻 Register here 👉 forms.office.com/e/b9aYHF3Z84

#Ebola #Virus
November 5, 2025 at 8:31 AM
Our project LWNVIVAT brings together many PhD students and early-career researchers. Meet Marina Matilla, a PhD student at @irsicaixa.es who is working on developing proteins found in the envelope of the West Nile virus. 👇

#WestNileVirus #Proteins #PhD #DoctoralStudent
October 28, 2025 at 3:41 PM
🌿 A few days ago, some of our project team members attended the Immunotherapy for Infectious Diseases Conference at the IRB | Institute for Research in Biomedicine in Bellinzona.

📸 Check out a few photos from the conference below 👇

#Immunotherapy #InfectiousDiseases
October 14, 2025 at 10:14 AM
🙌 We have a new webinar next week on our series!

💻 These seminars online seminars are free of charge and you can register using the following link 👉 lnkd.in/dhXaHGYW

#WestNileVirus #Survelliance #Mosquito
October 7, 2025 at 1:14 PM
📅 On September 9, we held our first review with the EU Commission. The project was rated satisfactory, having met all objectives so far. 🙌This positive feedback strengthens our commitment to developing a recombinant vaccine and therapeutic antibodies against #WNV #HorizonEurope
September 25, 2025 at 10:30 AM
Data of West Nile virus in Europe (as of 5 Aug): 202 human cases in 6 countries, and 10 deaths.

Read further👉 www.ecdc.europa.eu/en/infectiou...

#WNV #EmergingDiseases #WestNileVirus #Mosquito
September 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
☀️ Summer break is over, and our webinar series is back. Our next session will be on 16th September at 3 PM with Miguel A. Martin-Acebes from @csic.es

He will talk about "Metabolic reprogramming during West Nile virus infection" 👉Free registration forms.office.com/e/3RKQSD6qDC
September 4, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Our project is not only working on developing a vaccine against the West Nile virus, but we are also working to boost vaccine literacy, raise social awareness and promote policy innovation to ensure that vaccine reach the society👇

#RRI #Impact #WestNileVirus
August 18, 2025 at 12:41 PM
August 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
August 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
📺📰 Learn more 👉

1️⃣ www.canalsurmas.es/videos/26569...
August 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
🦟Our project has been featured in several media channels during July. LWNVIVAT was featured on @CSurNoticias , @larazon_es , and @ElTiempoes for its vital role in surveillance, outbreak prevention & vaccine development.

#WNV #Vaccines #PublicHealth #WestNileVirus
August 5, 2025 at 7:12 AM
🤔What are the most innovative parts our project? This is the question that answered Julia Garcia Prado, Principal Investigator at @irsicaixa.es and part of our project. You can watch it here 👇

#Innovation #Research #WestNileVirus #Vaccines
July 15, 2025 at 11:02 AM
💡How can we maximize the impact of biomedical research while ensuring it’s responsible and inclusive? Join for this free webinar on 🗓️July 8th at 14:30 (CET) which will explore how RRI can be applied to EU projects. Register now to secure your spot! 👉 forms.office.com/e/ag3s4bsLUH
July 2, 2025 at 12:42 PM
📢 Tomorrow, we’re excited to welcome Mireia Pelegrin.
She’ll be giving a talk titled: “Antibody-mediated immunomodulation: a better understanding for better antiviral immunotherapies”. Last chance to register 👇

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🗓️ Don’t miss it!

#Immunology #Virology
June 16, 2025 at 1:26 PM
Some partners of our project took part at the
ISIDORe User Conference in Paris to discuss about pandemic preparedness and response👇

We participated in roundtable discussions to enhance global preparedness for future health emergencies.
June 13, 2025 at 9:39 AM
🤔 How would you explain LWNVIVAT to someone who isn’t in the scientific field? Michael Hust, researcher and professor at Technische Universität Braunschweig and one of our partners, shared his insights👇

#WestNileVirus #Research #Innovation
June 10, 2025 at 10:25 AM
We’re excited to announce the next seminar where we will have Mireia Pelegrin, Research Director at
@cnrs.fr and Group Leader of Antibodies and Immunomodulation.

📍 Online | Free & open to all
👉 Registration link forms.office.com/e/JNgsU2xiaf
June 3, 2025 at 12:29 PM
🦠Join Our Next Seminar! We are excited to announce the third seminar in our series on emerging pathogens, with a focus on flaviviruses.

🗓 May 20th
🕒 15:00 – 16:00 CET
🔬 With Prof. Luisa Barzon
🔗 forms.office.com/e/KGMUMAJwak

#Flaviviruses #WestNileVirus
May 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
🤔 What makes our project stand out in terms of computational innovation? Roc Farriol from the @bsc-cns.bsky.social shares his perspective. 👇
May 6, 2025 at 8:16 AM
Being part of a European project comes with many advantages. Eudald Vehí Piqué, a PhD student at @irsicaixa.es coordinating partner—shared his thoughts on what being part of this kind of international initiative means to him🎥👇#EuropeanResearch #EU #Flaviviruses
April 29, 2025 at 9:02 AM
📰 Our project has recently been featured in the media!

Our work and our partner HIPRA was featured in
@lavanguardia.com, Diari de Girona, and @eldebatecom.bsky.social, highlighting the move from Spain’s first COVID-19 vaccine to combating zoonotic threats like West Nile virus.
April 24, 2025 at 7:41 AM