Plugging the Antibiotics Gap: A Medicinal Chemist's Perspective

Event Schedule

10:00

Registration and refreshment

10:45

Opening Remarks

10:50

The global challenge of antibacterial drug resistance: what can be done? Prof Laura Piddock, University of Birmingham and Antibiotic Action, UK

11:30

Design and synthesis of Novel Tricyclic Topoisomerase Inhibitors (NTTIs) to tackle the threat of multi-drug resistant bacterial infections Dr Ralph Kirk, Redx Pharma, Cheshire, UK

12:05

Discovery of small molecules targeting bacterial Peptidoglycan Glycosyltransferase Dr Alastair Parkes, Evotec, Oxfordshire, UK

12:35

Flash poster presentations

12:50

Lunch, exhibition and poster session

13:50

Talk Discovery of new antibiotics Prof Dave Spring, University of Cambridge, UK

14:35

Novel Polymyxin derivatives for gram-negative infections: synthesis and SAR Mrs Pamela Brown, Cantab Anti-Infectives, Hertfordshire, UK

15:05

Discovery of new antibiotics for drug resistant Neisseria Gonorrhoeae Dr Nawaz Khan, Discuva, Cambridge, UK

15:35

Refreshment break, exhibition and poster session

16:00

Novel Topoisomerase Inhibitors active against MDR gram-negative bacteria Dr Georg Rueedi , Actelion Pharmaceuticals, Allschwil, Switzerland

16:30

Talk Towards new antibiotics targeting Penicillin binding proteins Prof Chris Schofield, University of Oxford, UK

17:15

Closing remarks

17:20

Wine reception sponsored by Evotec