MRC CiC Tropical Infectious Disease Consortium Annual Meeting
Accelerating Product Development
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Thursday 16 February 2017 |
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Manson Lecture Theatre and South Courtyard |
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London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Keppel Street, London WC1E 7HT |
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09.30 |
Registrations - Manson Foyer / Refreshments – South Courtyard Café area |
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10.00 |
Welcome to the MRC CiC Consortium Meeting - Giancarlo Biagini |
LSTM |
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Partner Introduction & Overview (Chair : Giancarlo Biagini, LSTM) |
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10.05 |
Giancarlo Biagini |
LSTM |
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10.15 |
Ann Rawkins |
PHE |
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10.25 |
Sumi Biswas |
JI, Oxford |
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10.35 |
Simon Croft |
LSHTM |
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Private Sector Partners - Roles and Interactions (Chair : Sumi Biswas, JI Oxford) |
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10.45 |
Mo Yaqoob |
Pharmidex |
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11.00 |
Kavit Shah |
BioGene |
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11.15 |
Jenny Morling |
NativeAntigen |
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11.30 |
Peter Warn |
Evotec |
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MRC - Funding & Research Opportunities |
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11.45 |
Catriona Crombie |
MRC |
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12.30 |
Lunch – South Courtyard Café area |
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Research Updates (Chair : David Baker, LSHTM) |
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13.30 |
Sarah Gilbert “A One Health approach to MERS-CoV vaccines for camels and humans” |
JI,Oxford |
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13.45 |
Tom Edwards “Highly multiplexed molecular testing for antimicrobial resistance markers” |
LSTM |
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14.00 |
Alec O’Keeffe “Development of 2D flow and 3D macrophage models for drug evaluation against Leishmania” |
LSHTM |
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14.15 |
Ahmed Salman “Evaluation of Plasmodium falciparum SPECT-1 as a novel pre-erythrocytic malaria vaccine candidate” |
JI,Oxford |
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14.30 |
Laura Drought “Exploring cyclic nucleotide hosphodiesterases as anti-malarial drug targets” |
LSHTM/Sanger |
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14.45 |
Luis Cuevas “The need for multi-pathogen arbovirus tests that are timely for patient management” |
LSTM |
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15.00 |
Mike Coleman “Integration of Disease surveillance systems” |
LSTM |
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15.15 |
Amaya Bustinduy “Development and application of a Recombinase Polymerase Amplification (RPA) point-of-care test for the detection of Giardiasis in resource limited settings” |
LSHTM |
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CiC Admin Update |
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15.30 |
Martina Savio, Research Information Manager |
LSTM |
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15.45 |
Meeting close - Giancarlo Biagini |
LSTM |
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(Please note : All talks should be 12 minutes plus 3 minutes for questions) |
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