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The 32nd International Symposium on Hepatitis C virus, Flavivirus, and Related Viruses (HCV-Flavi 2026) will be held on 14-17 September 2026 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The meeting will feature the biology, immune responses, treatment and prevention of hepatitis C virus, flaviviruses, pestiviruses and related viruses. Check www.hcv-flavi2026.org to know more about the program, venue, organizers, speakers, and abstract submission. We look forward to welcoming you! See PDF.

Open call for the MIMS Clinical Research Fellowship (CRF) program 2026 aimed at early career clinicians. The fellowship provides early career clinicians with an opportunity to develop a research project in the broad area of infection medicine in collaboration with a basic researcher. They fellowship provides: -Salary contribution for 50% research time (upto 1.2 mio SEK) -Salary for a postdoc + associated costs (up to 2 mio SEK) -Access to MIMS and Nordic EMBL partnership network and activities.Last date to apply: Friday Jan 16, 2026. Please follow the link to find more details: https://www.umu.se/en/mims/research/clinical-research-fellows/call-mims-clinical-research

Senior Lecturer in Virology, Lund University, to be placed at the newly established Lund University Virus Centre. For application and information see link. Application deadline Nov 6. 

PhD students and postdocs are welcome to apply for the SSV travel grants. See how to apply under Member info. Applications for travel grants from SSV are now accepted during the autumn term, with deadline October 1. Decisions on travel grants are then taken by the board. Each award amounts to a maximum of 10.000 SEK.

The board welcomes nominations of candidates to the Pandemifonden Awards (Fenyö Prize and Olofsson Prize), which will be given by Virus- och pandemifonden – Svenska Sällskapet för Virologi, to up to two junior, talented virologists working at Swedish universities or hospitals, for the purpose of promoting virus research. For 2025, the award will be 100 000 SEK given to each awardee, see link

The “Virus- och pandemifonden” in collaboration with the “Svenska Covidföreningen, ME föreningen and föreningen för svårdiagnosticerade infektionssjukdomar” organized a fundraising campaign for post-covid research in the spring of 2025. The campaign collected 100,000 SEK, see link

Senior Lecturer in Virology, Lund University, to be placed at the newly established Lund University Virus Centre. For application and information see link. Application deadline Nov 6. 

23rd Smögen Summer Symposium on Virology, August 20-22, 2026. Add to your calenders ! 
11th National Infection Biology Meeting, October 20-21, Aronsborg, Bålsta. For information and registration, see link

Young GfV regularly organizes workshopsfocused on specific scientific topics. These workshops are intentionally kept small (around 20-40 participants) to provide a unique opportunity for students and early-career researchers. Further information about the workshops and preliminary programs can be found on Young GfV homepage

THE NEED OF VIRUS RESEARCH IS BIGGER NOW THAN EVER, BUT WE NEED RESOURCES AND SUPPORT, see link