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14th Annual Superbugs and Superdrugs

London, UK

Mon 5 March 2012 until Tue 6 March 2012
SMi proudly presents Europe's leading antibacterial event; Superbugs and Superdrugs. This well established event, now in its 14th year, will consist of a variety of different case study focused presentations featuring real life success stories and lessons learnt from project failures enabling attendees to learn from and discuss with key industry professional on challenges facing this rapidly-evolving field.
 
This event will act as the perfect forum for networking and problem solving with senior industry executives, presenting on their experiences of antibiotic resistance and development of new antibacterial agents. With multidrug resistance ever-increasing on a worldwide scale, advances in antibacterial development have never been more important and this event will be the perfect opportunity to be kept updated with advances in the field.
 
Our Key Speakers Include:
  • Sheo Singh, Senior Investigator, Merck
  • Ron Gladue, Research Fellow, Pfizer
  • Lynn Miesel , Senior Research Fellow, Merck
  • Neil Ryder, Executive Director, Microbial Vaccines, Novartis
  • Chris Longshaw , Associate Director of Microbiology, Astellas
  • Mick Gwynn, Director, Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, GlaxoSmithKline
  • Richard Bax, Senior Partner, Transcrip Partners
Key areas to be discussed in this year's conference:
  • Developments of specific-spectrum, anti-staphyloccal agents using in-vitro, in-vivo and human clinical data
  • Evaluating methods to identify beta-lactam synergists and modification to counter bacterial resistance
  • Discussing anti(myco) bacterial drug discovery and development in TB research
  • Exploring new perspectives on the treatment of CDI
  • Updates in anti-fungal and vaccine therapies
  • Assess monoclonal antibody prophylaxis as a alternative approach
  • Combating antibacterial resistance in developing markets
 
Two half-day post conference workshops on.....
A: Challenges in Antibiotic Discovery
Dr. Lynn Silver, Founder, LLSilver Consulting LLC
8:30am to 12:30pm, 7th March 2012, Copthorne Tara Hotel, London
 
B: The Global Need for New Antibiotics – International Actions and Implications for Antibacterial Drug Development
Dr. Ursula Theuretzbacher, Founder, Center for Anti-Infective Agents and Biotechnology
1:00pm to 5:00pm, 7th March 2012, Copthorne Tara Hotel, London
 

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