Speaker Presentations

Tuesday 15th March

Time
Speaker
Talk Title
Presentation
10:00 - 10:30
Profesor Stephen Ward
Welcome and Introduction to the AntiMal conference

 

10:30 - 11:30
Professor Sanjeev Krishna

"Greatest benefits to mankind" The discovery of antimalarials

11:30 - 12:00
Professor Dennis Kyle

Mechanisms of recrudescence and resistance to artemisinin drugs in malaria

13:30 - 14:00
Professor Yongyuth Yuthavong

Target based development of antifolates against malaria

14:00 - 14:30
Professor Paul O'Neill

From candidate selection of RK182 to second generation synthetic tetraoxane antimalarials

14:30 - 15:00
Professor Vicky Avery

Malaria screening on a global scale: What is the likley impact?

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15:30 - 16:00
Professor Christian Doerig
Targeting the kinome: also in malaria?
16:00 - 16:30
Doctor Arnab Chatterjee

Discovery of novel antimalarials through cell-based medicinal chemistry optimization of HTS hits

16:30 - 17:00
Professor Colin Fishwick

The use of structure-based methods in the discovery of anti-plasmodials

Wednesday 16th March

09:00 - 10:00

Professor Phillip Rosenthal

Characterisation of falcipain cysteine proteases and their inhibitors

 

10:00 - 10:30
Professor Kelly Chibale

Setting up technology platforms in Africa to facilitate an integrated approach to antimalarial drug discovery

 

11:00 - 11:15
Doctor Abdirahman Abdi

Tyrosine Kinase-like kinases of P. Falcipararum as the antimalaria drug target

 

11:15 - 11:30
Doctor Francesc Marti

Antimalarial monoxanes: Hybrid antimalarial drugs with outstanding oral activity profiles and potential dual mechanism of action

 

11:30 - 11:45
Doctor Ksenija Slavic

Palsmodium hexose transporter as animalarial target

 

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11:45 - 12:00
Doctor Fatima Bouseijra-El-Garah

From Artemisinin to trioxaquines and tetraoxanes: Role of heme in the mode of action of antimalarial peroxides

 

13:30 - 14:00
Doctor Elizabeth Winzeler

Discovering the mechanism of action of novel antimalarial drug chemotypes using forward chemical genetics

 

14:00 - 14:30
Professor Henri Vial

Lipids as drug targets for malaria therapy

 

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15:00 - 15:30
Doctor David Fox

Modern approaches to drug discovery: an industrial chemist perspective

 

15:30 - 16:30
Doctor Tim Wells

New medicines to improve control and contribute to the eradication of malaria

 

16:30 - 16:40
Professor Stephen Ward

Closing remarks

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