This year’s focus of the German Society for Parasitology’s Annual Meeting is on combating neglected tropical parasitic diseases under the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), helminth immunology, drug development, and One Health approaches.
Sessions
Anti-Helminthic drug development
Date: Monday, 15 March 2021
Time: 10:00-11:30
Chair: Achim Hörauf, Bonn, Germany
| Strategies for the optimization of treatments for soil-transmitted helminthiasis Jennifer Keiser, Associate Professor, Swiss Tropical Public Health, Switzerland |
| Recent developments, current challenges and potential perspectives of anthelmintic drug development Georg von Samson-Himmelstjerna, Full Professor and Director, Institute for Parasitology and Tropical Veterinary Medicine, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany |
| Development of alternative treatments for onchocerciasis – an update – preclinical perspective Marc P. Hübner, University of Bonn, Germany |
| Development of alternative treatments for onchocerciasis – an update – clinical perspective Sabine Specht, Head of Filarial Clinical Programme, DNDi, Switzerland |
NTD elimination against the background of the 2030 SDG goals
Date: Monday, 15 March 2021
Time: 17:30-19:00
Chair: Achim Hörauf, Bonn, Germany
Speakers:
- Mwele Malecela, Director of the Department of Control of Neglected Tropical Diseases, World Health Organization, Switzerland
- Nathalie Strub-Wourgaft, Neglected Tropical Diseases Director, DNDi, Switzerland
- Maria-Gloria Basanez, Professor of Neglected Tropical Diseases, Imperial College London, UK
Poster presentation
Date: Wednesday, 17 March 2021
Time: 12:25–12:30
| Replacement of missing values for one-time-measurement outcomes in Onchocerciasis clinical trials Gruetzmacher B*, Specht S, Debrah AY, Schmid M, Hoerauf A, Klarmann-Schulz U |
*Presenting author
