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Superbugs and Superdrugs : Innovations in Anti Infectives
10 May - 11 May 2000
Superbugs and Superdrugs : Innovations in Anti Infectives
Following on from the success of last year’s Superbugs & Superdrugs conference we are once again bringing together the international specialists within the antibiotics field and tackling the issues that matter. Superbugs & Superdrugs II offers the unique opportunity to hear from a leading international panel of speakers at the cutting edge of antimicrobial resistance. This event gives you the opportunity to strategically align your company for optimum success.

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Conference agenda

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8:30

Registration & Coffee

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9:00

Workshop Leader’s Opening Remarks

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9:15

Cost control through the use of activity

  • The reality of step change
  • Cost drivers
  • Three ways to reduce costs
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    10:30

    Flow charts and process redesign

  • Charting techniques
  • Understanding the scale of waste
  • Waste elimination techniques
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    11:45

    Performance measurement

  • The role of lead-time in quality, cost and customer service
  • Quality standards
  • Benchmarking
  • Reporting tools
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    12:30

    Close of Workshop

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    8:30

    Registration & Coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman's Opening Remarks

    Dr André Bryskier

    Dr André Bryskier, Head of Clinical Pharmacology, Anti Infectives, Hoechst Marion Roussel

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    9:10

    SUPERBUGS: A GLOBAL PROBLEM

    Prof Jan Verhoef

    Prof Jan Verhoef, Professor of Clinical Microbiology, University Medical Center Utrecht

  • The global threat of antibiotic resistance, the need for new agents
  • Emerging problems of resistance against gram-positive bacteria
  • Emerging problems of resistance against gram-negative bacteria
  • Acquiring resistance against gram-negative bacteria
  • Potential ways of dealing with resistant gram-negative bacteria
  • Implications of resistant gram-negative bacteria for patient outcomes in hospitals
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    9:40

    A PHARMACEUTICAL PERSPECTIVE

    Dr Jeffrey R Edwards

    Dr Jeffrey R Edwards, Director, Clinical Microbiology, Infection Therapy Area, AstraZeneca

  • Why develop a new anti infective agent?
  • The infrastructure required, competition for resources
  • What new agents are needed?
  • Something really new, another variant or a ‘compound too far’
  • Discovery, development and commercialisation
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    10:20

    DEVELOPING A GLYCYLCYCLINE WITH A BROAD SPECTRUM OF ACTIVITY

    Dr Steven J Projan

    Dr Steven J Projan, Director, Antibacterial Research, Wyeth Ayerst Research

  • Targeting gram positive, gram-negative and atypical bacteria
  • Developing GAR-936, a novel glycylcycline
  • Mechanism of action of GAR-936
  • Taking GAR-936 into clinical trials
  • Safety and efficacy of GAR-936
  • Anticipating the future of glycylcycline
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    11:00

    Morning Coffee

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    11:20

    THERAPEUTIC OPTIONS FOR THE TREATMENT OF SERIOUS SYSTEMIC INFECTION IN HOSPITALISED PATIENTS

    Dr Richard J White

    Dr Richard J White, Chief Scientific Officer, Versicor

  • Using glycopeptides to defeat bacteria
  • Developing BI 397, a second generation glycopeptide
  • Mechanism of action of BI 397
  • Pharmacodynamics of BI 397
  • Taking BI 397 into clinical trials
  • Anticipating the future of glycopeptides
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    12:00

    STRUCTURE-BASED DISCOVERY OF ANTI-BACTERIALS

    Prof William Shaw

    Prof William Shaw, Chief Scientific Officer, PanTherix

  • Genomics to high resolution structures of validated targets
  • Use of structural information to assist chemical design
  • Virtual screening of large diverse libraries
  • Drug contact with conserved active site hinders ‘easy’ resistance
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    12:40

    Lunch

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    13:40

    DISCOVERY AND DEVELOPMENT OF A NEW QUINOLONE ANTIBIOTIC

    Prof Axel Dalhoff

    Prof Axel Dalhoff, Head, Preclinical Development Anti Infectives, Bayer

  • Its strategy for combating anti infective drug resistance
  • The development of quinolones
  • Mechanism of action of quinolones
  • Therapeutic target pathogens
  • Decreasing the rate of emergence of drug resistance
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    14:20

    THE NEW GENERATION OF QUINOLONES

    Dr John F Barrett

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

  • An overview of the evolution and class of quinolones
  • Developmental trends amongst quinolones
  • Advantages of quinolones over existing and alternative therapies
  • Unmet patients’ needs
  • Opportunities for quinolones
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    15:00

    OUTWITTING ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANT BACTERIA

    Dr George Miller

    Dr George Miller, Senior Vice President, Research & Development, Microcide Pharmaceuticals

  • Prolonging the usefulness of existing classes of antimicrobials
  • A cephalosporin for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus - RWJ-54428
  • Inhibitors of bacterial and fungal efflux pumps
  • Developing new classes of antimicrobials using functional genomics - antibacterials and antifungals
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    15:40

    Afternoon Tea

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    16:00

    LESSONS FROM DAPTOMYCIN

    Dr Francis P Tally

    Dr Francis P Tally, Executive Vice President, Scientific Affairs, 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
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    16:30

    UTILISING PHARMACODYNAMICS IN CLINICAL DEVELOPMENT

    Dr Paul Ambrose

    Dr Paul Ambrose, Therapeutic Director, Infectious Diseases, Kendle International

  • Pharmacodynamic parameters and target development
  • Dose and regimen selection
  • Human trials
  • Susceptibility break point determination
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    17:30

    Chairman’s Closing Remarks and Close of Day One

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    17:40

    Drinks Reception for Delegates and Speakers

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    8:30

    Re-registration and Coffee

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    9:00

    Chairman's Opening Remarks

    Dr George Shimer

    Dr George Shimer, Vice President, Biology, Cubist Pharmaceuticals

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    9:10

    INNOVATIONS IN SURVEILLANCE: COMBINING INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND MICROBIOLOGY FOR SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY

    Dr Daniel F Sahm

    Dr Daniel F Sahm, Chief Scientific Officer, MRL Pharmaceutical Services

  • Surveillance for science and industry - needs and roles
  • Implementing state-of-the-art information technology for electronic surveillance. Precision and quality is everything
  • Electronic surveillance in support of antimicrobial development
  • Maximising output of centralised in vitro susceptibility testing
  • Innovations in surveillance for infectious disease - beyond resistance
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    9:40

    THE IMPACT OF BIOINFORMATICS ON THE DISCOVERY OF NEW ANTIBIOTICS

    Dr Georg Casari

    Dr Georg Casari, Vice President, Bioinformatics, LION Bioscience

  • Impact of bioinformatics on the discovery process
  • Extracting the maximum value from experimental data
  • Discrimination of targets employing in silico methods
  • Text mining for retrieval of higher order sequence information
  • Anticipating the future of bioinformatics in the field of antimicrobials
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    10:20

    ENHANCING ANTI INFECTIVES DISCOVERY

    Dr Ronnie Farquhar

    Dr Ronnie Farquhar, Senior Programme Director, Anti Infectives, Millennium Pharmaceuticals

  • Lessons learned from employing large scale genetics and genomics in conducting the discovery of antibacterial and antifungal drug targets
  • Application of high throughput screening, automation and informatics towards drug candidate identification: from black box to defined target screening and back again
  • The benefits of strategic alliances
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    11:00

    Morning Coffee

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    11:20

    INTEGRATING BACTERIAL GENOMIC INFORMATION

    Dr Hannes Loferer

    Dr Hannes Loferer, Head, Microbiology, GPC

  • Comparative genomics and novel targets
  • Assay development strategies
  • Functional genomics, interaction technologies and compound mode-of-action studies
  • Establishing drug discovery collaborations
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    12:00

    ANTI INFECTIVE DRUGS BASED ON THE QUORUM SYSTEM

    Dr Jeffrey Stein

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

  • A novel gene pathway occurring in a wide variety of bacteria
  • Governing the onset of bacterial pathogenesis in a host
  • Finding a new regulatory molecule and signalling system that mediates communication amongst bacterial cells
  • Developing a signalling pathway and a screening platform for novel anti bacterials
  • Decreased likelihood of evolving resistance mechanisms
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    12:40

    Lunch

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    UTILISING THE PNA TECHNOLOGY FOR THE DISCOVERY OF ANTI INFECTIVES

    Dr Carsten Schou

    Dr Carsten Schou, Vice President, Research, Pantheco

  • PNA, a new chemical entity
  • Binding to single-stranded nucleic acids
  • Developing anti bacterial drugs based on PNA
  • Targeting selected bacterial genome sequences for a PNA drug
  • Decreasing the rate of developing bacterial resistance
  • Anticipating the future of anti bacterial PNA based drugs
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    14:20

    FINDING NOVEL CLASSES OF ANTIMICROBIAL COMPOUNDS

    Dr Dana M Fowlkes

    Dr Dana M Fowlkes, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Novalon Pharmaceuticals

  • Identifying novel genomics-derived anti bacterial targets
  • Utilising Novalon’s advanced peptide aptamer technology (BioKey™)
  • Isolating surrogate ligands (BioKeys)
  • Developing high throughput screening assays (BioKey Assays)
  • Screening small molecule chemical libraries with BioKey Assays
  • Developing a new generation of broad-spectrum antibiotics;
    Impact of Novalon’s BioKey technology on targets of unknown function
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    INTRABIOTICS: HARNESSING NATURAL HOST DEFENCES

    Dr John C Fiddes

    Dr John C Fiddes, Vice President, Research & Development, IntraBiotics Pharmaceuticals

  • Role of antimicrobial peptides in innate immunity
  • The protegrin family of antimicrobial peptides
  • IB-367: a synthetic protegrin analog
  • Mechanism of action of IB-367
  • Phase II efficacy data of IB-367 Rinse to treat oral mucositis
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    15:20

    Afternoon Tea

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    16:00

    INHIBITING BACTERIAL ADHERENCE

    Dr Joseph M Patti

    Dr Joseph M Patti, Vice President, Preclinical Development, Chief Scientific Officer, Inhibitex

  • MSCRAMMs - microbial surface components recognising adhesive matrix molecules
  • MSCRAMMs - novel targets for immunotherapy
  • Polyclonal and monoclonal antibody product opportunities
  • Development of MSCRAMM based subunit vaccines
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    16:30

    ANTIMICROBIAL R&D - A VIEW FROM OUTSIDE BIG PHARMA

    Dr Richard Bax

    Dr Richard Bax, Development Director, Transcrip, Bax Consulting

  • How can companies optimise their early compounds?
  • Quickest route from compound selection to phase 2
  • What do you need to know?
  • What do you do need to know?
  • What interests big pharma?
  • How to optimise your proposal and increase the likelihood of getting a positive response from big pharma
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    17:00

    Chairman's Closing Remarks and Close of Conference

    Workshops

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