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Advances in Anti-Viral Therapeutics
1 December - 2 December 2004
Advances in Anti-Viral Therapeutics

The Anti-Viral's market is forecast to grow to $14 billion by the year 2007 due to the escalation of viral infections and inadequate efficacy of current drugs available. Understanding the latest developments in anti-viral research, drug discovery and development activity is now more important than ever.

This conference will focus primarily on the major viral diseases such as Hepatitis, HIV, RSV and influenza, with a view to understanding the latest emerging viral diseases and the therapeutic treatments available.


A unique opportunity to learn from leading industry experts including:

  • Dr John Thomson, Vice President, Research, Vertex Pharmaceuticals
  • Dr Manos Perros, Director & Head, Anti-Infectives Biology, Pfizer
  • Dr Jang Han, Director, HCV Research, Chiron
  • Dr Kenny Simmen, Director, Research, HCV, Tibotec BVBA
  • Prof Patrick Iversen, Senior Vice President, Research & Development, AVI BioPharma
  • Dr Bert Klebl, Vice President, Research, Axxima Pharmaceuticals
  • Dr Mike Westby, HIV Virology Team Leader, Pfizer
  • Dr Steve Carroll, Senior Research Fellow, Merck

The essential event on:

  • NEW STRATEGIES AGAINST HCV, HIV, RSV & INFLUENZA: Learn about the latest research in these areas and where the approaches are leading
  • EMERGING VIRAL DISEASES: Identification methods and treatment strategies for West Nile Virus, Dengue, Ebola/ Marburg and Calicivirus
  • ANTI-VIRALS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES: How effective will ARV be in the developing countries?
  • ALTERNATIVE THERAPEUTIC APPROACHES: Hear about therapeutic vaccination and protein-based HIV therapeutics
  • KEY INDUSTRY PERSONNEL: Meet the leaders in the field, learn from their experiences and make valuable contacts

Conference agenda

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

Chairman's Opening Remarks

Professor John Oxford

Professor John Oxford, Professor, Virology, The Royal London Hospital & Scientific Director, Retroscreen Virology

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9:10

LATEST TRENDS, TECHNOLOGIES AND STRATEGIES IN ANTI-VIRALS

Dr Manos Perros

Dr Manos Perros, Director & Head, Anti-Infectives Biology, Pfizer

  • Chronic and acute viral infections
  • Different pathogens: HIV, HCV, HBV, respiratory viruses
  • Impact of diagnostics
  • Managing drug resistance
  • Application of new technologies and concepts in the treatment of viral infections
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    9:50

    NEXT GENERATION ANTI-VIRAL DRUG DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT

    Dr Kenny Simmen

    Dr Kenny Simmen, Director, Research, HCV, Tibotec BVBA

  • Discovery and development of TMC 114, a next generation HIV PI
  • Structural and thermodynamics basis for TMC 114 unique properties
  • Clinical update on TMC 114 and TMC 125 studies in HIV-infected patients
  • Strategies in HCV drug discovery
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:00

    MECHANISM BASED DESIGN OF SYNERGISTIC THERAPEUTICS FOR HEPATITIS C

    Dr John Thomson

    Dr John Thomson, Vice President, Research, Vertex Pharmaceuticals

  • HCV biology: targeting host and virus
  • Merimepodib and IMPDH inhibition
  • VX-950 and NS3·4A protease inhibitor design
  • Stochastic kinetics and fast versus slow mechanisms in inhibitor design
  • Viral rebound versus extinction
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    11:40

    HCV THERAPEUTICS BASED ON RNAi

    Dr Jang Han

    Dr Jang Han, Director, HCV Research, Chiron

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    12:20

    Networking Lunch

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    13:50

    PROGRESS TOWARDS SMALL MOLECULE DRUG DEVELOPMENT FOR HEPATITIS C VIRUS INFECTION

    Dr Steve Carroll

    Dr Steve Carroll, Senior Research Fellow, Merck

  • Viral enzyme targets
  • Protease inhibitors
  • Polymerase inhibitors –nucleoside analogues
  • Polymerase inhibitors –nonnucleosides
  • Impact of genotype variation
  • Prospects for combination therapies
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    14:30

    HOST CELL TARGETS IN HCV THERAPY

    Dr Bert Klebl

    Dr Bert Klebl, Vice President, Research, Axxima Pharmaceuticals

  • Current HCV treatments prove the host cell target strategy
  • Gastrointestinal Glutathionperoxidase (GI-GPx) as a host cell target for HCV
  • How to modulate GI-GPx with a small molecule
  • BioIogical activity of an GI-GPx activator in the replicon system
  • Efficacy of the GI-GPx activator in a clinical pilot trial
  • The GI-GPx activator as the third active principle in HCV therapy
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    15:10

    Afternoon Tea

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    15:40

    CHALLENGES IN HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS-RESEARCH

    Dr Mike Westby

    Dr Mike Westby, HIV Virology Team Leader, Pfizer

  • Current and emerging therapies
  • Current treatment options
  • Meeting the challenges of discovering new drugs for ‘old’ targets
  • The hurdles facing the emerging drugs for ‘new’ targets
  • Integrase and RNase H
  • CCR5 as the first host target in HIV
  • Gp120 inhibitors
  • The future
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    16:20

    PHOSPHOTRANSFERASE INHIBITORS: A MECHANISM BASED APPROACH TO NEW ANTI-VIRAL AGENTS

    Dr Jay Grobler

    Dr Jay Grobler, Research Fellow, Merck

  • Identifying integrase inhibitors with potent anti-viral activity in vitro and in vivo
  • Defining biochemical mechanisms
  • Using resistance to facilitate drug development
  • Exploiting ‘pharmacophore libraries’ to identify leads for novel targets
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    17:00

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

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    8:30

    Re-registration & Coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman's Opening Remarks

    Dr Bert Klebl

    Dr Bert Klebl, Vice President, Research, Axxima Pharmaceuticals

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    9:10

    HUMAN MONOCLONAL ANTIBODIES HAVE A KEY ROLE TO PLAY IN THE FIGHT AGAINST HIV-1 INFECTION

    Dr Simon Lennard

    Dr Simon Lennard, Project Manager, Cambridge Antibody Technology

  • A programme focussed on the research and development of products specific for a key target involved in disease mediated by HIV-1
  • Providing important new information about the mechanism of HIV-1infection, potentially moving us one step closer to a successful vaccine for HIV-1
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    9:50

    NEW ANTI-VIRALS FROM ‘OLD’ TARGETS

    Dr Simon Tucker

    Dr Simon Tucker, Director, Research, Biota Holdings

  • Update on new NA inhibitors for influenza
  • New capsid binders for rhinovirus
  • New RSV anti-virals
  • New approaches to nucleotide-based anti-virals
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    10:30

    Morning Coffee

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    11:00

    A NOVEL INHIBITOR OF RESPIRATORY SYNCYTIAL VIRUS

    Stuart Cockerill

    Stuart Cockerill, Research Director, Arrow Therapeutics Ltd

  • Characterisation and mode of action
  • Preclinical analysis
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    11:40

    INFLUENZA

    Professor John Oxford

    Professor John Oxford, Professor, Virology, The Royal London Hospital & Scientific Director, Retroscreen Virology

  • The range of anti-flu drugs
  • New approach to finding novel inhibitor
  • Pandemic planning
  • A focus on the 1918 pandemic
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    12:20

    Networking Lunch

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    13:50

    INCREASING THE NEED FOR ANTI-VIRALS IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

    Dr Remko Van Leeuwen

    Dr Remko Van Leeuwen, Director, Business Development, International Antiviral Therapy Evaluation Centre

  • What is the need for ARVs?
  • How effective will ARVs be in developing countries?
  • Will ARVs affect the total number of people with HIV?
  • What are the issues that would need to be addressed in
  • determining the costs and the benefits of ARV therapy for people with HIV/ AIDS
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    14:30

    NOVEL APPROACHES TO THERAPEUTIC VACCINATION AGAINST CHRONIC VIRUS INFECTIONS

    Dr Joerg Schneider

    Dr Joerg Schneider, Vice President, Research, Oxxon tTerapeutics

  • Rationale for therapeutic vaccination
  • Preclinical data
  • Lessons from cancer vaccines
  • Clinical development
  • Challenges and perspectives
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    15:10

    Chairman's Closing Remarks followed by Afternoon Tea

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