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Superbugs and Superdrugs: Innovations in Anti-infectives
5 March - 6 March 2001
Superbugs and Superdrugs: Innovations in Anti-infectives
Emerging bacterial resistance is a world-wide problem that has proven itself problematic for a number of years contributing to a growing market for anti-infective drugs capable of combating these infectious pathogens. As a key industry representative, you are aware of the commercial possibilities of this sector and how the constant evolution of the ‘Superbugs’ sustains an anti-infective industry.

For our part, as world-leaders in pharmaceutical conferences, SAE Media Group’s ‘Superbugs and Superdrugs: An update on Anti-Infectives’ conference has identified Superbugs and the anti-infectives used to combat these bacterial pathogens. This conference is an opportunity waiting to be exploited.

Why you should attend this event? This is your chance to hear the experts in this field discussing their latest approaches and achievements to new or improved antibiotics. They will stress the urgent need of new antibiotics and discuss ongoing work in this field. This conference offers you the advantage of meeting key players all under one roof - giving you fantastic networking opportunities.

Conference agenda

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

Strategy

  • Obtaining the right valuation
  • How the source of the valuation impacts the deal
  • The importance of methodology
  • Estimating sales potential
  • Partner contributions
  • Sales and marketing contribution
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    11:00

    Morning coffee

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    11:15

    Evaluation

  • Manufacturing contribution
  • Clinical development contribution
  • R&D contribution
  • Appropriate control of IP rights
  • Good deals make good business
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    12:30

    Discussion and questions - review of the session

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    13:00

    Close of workshop

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    8:30

    Registration & Coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman’s Opening Remarks

    Prof. Ian Chopra

    Prof. Ian Chopra, Director of Research, Antimicrobial Research Centre, University of Leeds

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    9:10

    SUPERBUGS: AN OVERVIEW

    John F Barrett

    John F Barrett, Executive Director, Microbiology, Anti-Infectives Discovery, Bristol Myers Squibb

  • Re-emerging infectious diseases
  • Antibiotic resistance and the need for new therapies
  • Emerging therapies to address this issue
  • How are we placed to tackle these pathogens?
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    9:40

    CHALLENGES IN DRUG DEVELOPMENT

    Dr Rudolf Then

    Dr Rudolf Then, Head, Infectious Disease Research, Hoffmann-La Roche

  • The global view
  • Local situations; Problem organisms
  • What are the needs?
  • Solutions and future developments
  • Strengths and weaknesses of new antibiotics in development; New antibiotics in early stages: selected examples
  • Non-antibiotic therapeutic strategies
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    10:20

    MCA: EVALUATION OF NEW ANTI-INFECTIVES

    Dr Mair Powell

    Dr Mair Powell, Senior Medical Officer, Medicines Control Agency

  • Drug resistant bacteria are a concern for the licensing authorities
  • Recent experience with EU procedures for approval of new agents
  • Approval times: potential use of fast-tracking mechanisms
  • Guidelines relevant to antibacterial development programmes
  • Examples of difficulties in interpretation of safety and efficacy data
  • Insertion / updating of prevalence of resistance data in the EU SPC
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    11:00

    Morning Coffee

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    11:20

    DRUG EVALUATION AND RESEARCH

    Dr Clyde Thornsberry

    Dr Clyde Thornsberry, Director, MRL Pharmaceutical Services

  • Drug resistant bacteria: an urgent problem
  • Recent experience with US procedures for approval of new agents
  • Bringing new drugs to market quickly to combat resistant pathogens
  • Shortening the drug development process
  • Guidelines on trial design
  • Getting faster drug approval
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    12:00

    MULTIPLE DRUG RESISTANCE IN ESCHERICHIA COLI

    Dr Laura Piddock

    Dr Laura Piddock, Lecturer in Anti-Infectives, Birmingham University, UK

  • Role of mutations in genes mediating target proteins, DNA gyrase and DNA topoisomerase IV
  • Role of changes in the cell envelope
  • Role of decreased accumulation and effluxaccumulation and efflux
  • Role of increased expression of genes that encode efflux pumps or multiple drug resistance
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    12:40

    Networking Lunch

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    14:00

    A RESPONSE TO DRUG RESISTANT BACTERIA

    Dr Mark Nelson

    Dr Mark Nelson, Senior Director of Chemistry, Paratek Pharmaceuticals

  • The need for improved antibacterial agents
  • Effective anti-bacterials against MRSA and WRE
  • Chemical rationale
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    14:40

    PHARMACOKINETIC/PHARMACODYNAMIC MODELLING

    Dr Christine Falcoz

    Dr Christine Falcoz, Principle Clinical Pharmacologist, Experimental Medicine, Anti-Infectives, GlaxoWellcome

  • PK/PD as a guide for an integrated development of anti infectives (decision-making)
  • In vivo and in vitro methodologies in animals and man,
  • Site of infection
  • Compound selection at early stages
  • Prediction of likely efficacious dosing regimens in humans (dose-rationale)
  • Integration to the clinical development; Regulatory considerations
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    15:20

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:40

    SIGA’S RESPONSE TO A GLOBAL CRISIS

    Dr Dennis Hruby

    Dr Dennis Hruby, Vice President, Research, Siga Pharmaceuticals

  • Bacterial adhesion strategies
  • Gram positive: sortase
  • Gram negative: pilicides
  • DepP-a broad spectrum target
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    16:20

    THE CHALLENGE OF ANTI-BACTERIAL DRUG DISCOVERY

    Dr Stefan Wohlfeil

    Dr Stefan Wohlfeil, Vice President, Anti-Infectives, Bayer

  • Novel fluoro-quinolone agents with improved target potency and resistance profile
  • Revisiting underexplored lead structures: is there a second chance for optimisation with new technologies?
  • The use of genomics in antibacterial drug discovery
  • Antibacterial research in the post-genomic era
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    17:00

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

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    17:10

    Networking Drinks Reception

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    8:30

    Re-registration and Coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman's Opening Remarks

    Dr Jos Van der Meer

    Dr Jos Van der Meer, Head, Department of General Internal Medicine, University Medical Center, Nymegen

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    9:10

    THE MRSA QUESTION

    Dr Andre Bryskier

    Dr Andre Bryskier, Head, Anti-Infectives, Aventis

  • Infection control strategies
  • Synercid: a new class of antibiotic
  • Mode of delivery
  • Current clinical trial status
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    9:40

    TARGETED TREATMENT

    Dr Stephen Carroll

    Dr Stephen Carroll, Vice President, Preclinical Research, Xoma

  • Exploiting genomic information to aid drug development
  • The technologies employed
  • The concept of NEUPREX
  • Mode of action of NEUPREX
  • Collaborations in drug development
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    10:20

    CUBIST PHARMACEUTICALS UPDATE

    Dr George Shimer

    Dr George Shimer, Senior Director, Pathogen Genomics, Cubist Pharmaceuticals

  • Developing daptomycin
  • Selecting the proper dose for an antibiotic; Rapid killing of a wide range of resistant strains
  • Pharmacokinetic separation of efficacy and toxicity; Review clinical data
  • VITA technology
  • validating unique targets
  • identifying additional compounds; spectrum of activity against MRSA and VRE
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    11:00

    Morning Coffee

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    NEW GENERATION DRUG DISCOVERY

    Dr Carl Craft

    Dr Carl Craft, Head Macrolide Venture, Abbott Laboratories

  • Development trends amongst Macrolides
  • Opportunities for ketolides
  • The ketolide antibiotic: ABT-773
  • Mechanism of action
  • Decreasing the rate of drug resistance
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    12:00

    NEW GENERATION DRUG DEVELOPMENT

    Dr Bob Naso

    Dr Bob Naso, Senior Vice President, Research & Development, NABI

  • The growing problem of Gram-positive bacterial infections
  • New vaccines and drugs from NABI to combat the problem
  • StaphVAX (S. aureus conjugate polysaccharide vaccine); Results of phase III clinical trials in haemodialysis patients
  • Altastaph (S. aureus immune globulin, Human); Results of phase I/II clinical trials in low birth weight neonates
  • EpiVAX (S. epidermidis conjugate vaccine) - preclinical results
  • EnteroVAX (E. faecalis conjugate vaccine) - preclinical results
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    Lunch

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    ANTI INFECTIVE DRUGS BASED ON THE QUORUM SYSTEM

    Dr Jeffrey Stein

    Dr Jeffrey Stein, Vice President, Chief Scientific Officer, Quorex Pharmaceuticals

  • A novel gene highly conserved pathway regulating virulance in Gram positive and Gram negative pathogens
  • Powerful new bioinformanics tools that have enabled target characterisation and design
  • Compounds that inhibit virulance broadly
  • Dramatic potentiation of existing bacteriocidal drugs
  • Inhibition of biofilm formation
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    REVIEWING THE IMPACT OF BACTERIAL GENOMICS

    Dr Hannes Loferer

    Dr Hannes Loferer, Senior Director, Microbiology, GPC Biotech

  • Genomics and target discovery: large-scale genetics; comparative genomics; genes of unknown function
  • Genomics and assay development; Surrogate markers; Surrogate ligands; Protein-protein interaction technologies
  • Genomics and drug development; Reverse genomics and compound mode of action
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    15:00

    NEW SCREENS FOR NOVEL ANTIBIOTICS

    Dr Christian Fritz

    Dr Christian Fritz, Senior Scientist, Anti-Infectives, Millennium Pharmaceuticals

  • From gene discovery to screen development
  • Development assays for targets of unknown function
  • Pathway screens
  • Use of transcriptional profiling in assay development
  • Promising individual targets
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    15:40

    Afternoon Tea

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    16:00

    FUNCTIONAL PROTEOMICS

    Dr Robert Bargetze

    Dr Robert Bargetze, Vice President, Research & Development, Ligocyte

  • The ProteoFlow system
  • Mechanism of action of model
  • Discovery of broad platform technologies
  • Functional genomics capabilities to identify and validate genes and proteins
  • Results: validated targets for the discovery of drugs to combat resistant bacteria.
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    16:30

    NEW GENERATION DRUG DISCOVERY

    Dr Scott Mills

    Dr Scott Mills, Scientist, Molecular Sciences, AstraZeneca

  • Using genomic information in the antimicrobial drug discovery process
  • Bioinformatic tools for comparative genomic analysis
  • Target identification in silico
  • Target validation through functional genomics/genetics
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    17:00

    Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Conference

    Workshops

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    CPD stands for Continuing Professional Development’. It is essentially a philosophy, which maintains that in order to be effective, learning should be organised and structured. The most common definition is:

    ‘A commitment to structured skills and knowledge enhancement for Personal or Professional competence’

    CPD is a common requirement of individual membership with professional bodies and Institutes. Increasingly, employers also expect their staff to undertake regular CPD activities.

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