CEIDR Innovations Industry Symposium: Accelerating Solutions for Existing & Emerging Infections

Event 21 Jan 2020
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09:30-10:00am

 

Registration & welcome reception

 

10:00-10:10am

 

Welcome and Introduction from Professor Louise Kenny, Executive Pro-Vice-Chancellor, University of Liverpool

 

10:10-10:20am

Dr Fiona Marston, Director, CEIDR Innovations

Professor Daniela Ferreira, Professor in Respiratory Infection and Vaccine development and the Head of the Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

CEIDR Innovations working in partnership with The Centre of Excellence in Infectious Diseases Research

 

10:20-10:50am

Chaired by Dr Fiona Marston

 

Keynote address by:

Dr Catherine Kettleborough, Head of Biology, Associate Director, LifeArc

 

10:50-11:30am

 

One Health

Chaired by Professor Matthew Baylis, Executive Dean, Ecology, Infection and Veterinary Sciences, University of Liverpool

 

Professor Neil French, Professor of Infectious Diseases and Global Health, UOL and Hon. Consultant Infectious Diseases Royal Liverpool & Broadgreen University Hospitals Trust

Creating and using vaccines, industry-academic partnerships

 

Dr Joseph Turner,Reader in Infection Biology at The Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics, Department of Tropical Disease Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Next-generation anti-Wolbachia drugs for the treatment of human and veterinary filariasis

11:30-12:30pm

Speed Networking

12:30-1:30pm

 

Lunch including poster presentations and photography competition viewing

 

 

1:30-2:00pm

Chaired by Dr Fiona Marston

Keynote address by

Jonathan O’Halloran, Founder and CEO, QuantuMDx Group Ltd

Q-POC and the Innovation Rollercoaster!

 

2:00-2:40pm

Drug Discovery & Diagnostics

Chaired by Professor Giancarlo Biagini, Professor and Deputy Head of Parasitology, Tropical Disease Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

 

Dr Emily Adams, Senior Lecturer, Research Centre for Drugs and Diagnostics, Tropical Diseases Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Development and evaluation of diagnostics for global health – partnering with industry

 

Dr Adam Roberts, Reader in Antimicrobial Chemotherapy and Resistance, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Drug design informed by the Evolutionary Biology of Resistance

 

Professor Richard Pleass Professor of Parasitology, Tropical Disease Biology, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Engineering glycosylation variants into human IgG1-Fc for enhanced therapeutic efficacy

2:40-3:40pm

 

Speed Networking

 

 

3:40-4:10pm

 

 

Coffee Break including poster presentations and photography competition viewing

 

4:10-4:50pm

 

Accelerating Development

Chaired by Professor William Hope, Professor of Therapeutics and Infectious Diseases, University of Liverpool

 

Dr Shampa Das, Senior Lecturer, Antimicrobial Pharmacodynamics and Therapeutics, University of Liverpool

Dose selection for novel antibacterial developments

 

Professor Daniela FerreiraProfessor in Respiratory Infection and Vaccine development and the Head of the Department of Clinical Sciences, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

Human infection challenge models for product development

 

Dr Richard FitzGerald, CRF Director, NIHR Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen Clinical Research Facility, Consultant Physician, Clinical Pharmacology & Therapeutics / General Medicine, Honorary Senior Lecturer, Molecular & Clinical Pharmacology, University of Liverpool

Early Clinical Development: How do we make it faster and easier to do?

4:50-5:00pm

Announcement of Photography Competition Winner

Lisa Baldwin, Business Development Manager, CEIDR Innovations

Closing remarks and thanks from

Professor David Lalloo, Director, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine

5:00-6:00pm

 

Drinks reception