Organized biennially by Fiocruz, through the Fio-Schisto Translational Research Program, this year’s symposium will be held under the central theme “Global Health and Schistosomiasis”, this edition reinforces the recognition of schistosomiasis as a socially determined disease, whose impacts disproportionately affect populations in situations of vulnerability. In this sense, it affects numerous and diverse communities around the world, making an integrated global effort, both academic and in health management, essential for its elimination.
DNDi paricipation
Date: Monday, 23 November 2026
Time: 15:20 – 17:00
Type: Roundtable
Roundtable 4: Drug Screening, development and resistance
Chair: Floriano Paes (Fiocruz, Brazil)
Speakers:
- Lizandra Guidi Magalhães Caldas (UNIFRAN, Brazil) – Bioprospecting natural products for schistosomiasis: current perspectives and future prospects
- Ivan Scandale (DNDi) – Development of AR102 as a preclinical candidate for the treatment of schistosomiasis and DNDi translation platform
- Eric Ndombi (Kenyata University, Nairobi, Kenya) – Genotypic and Phenotypic Analysis of Praziquantel Susceptibility in Schistosoma mansoni Isolates from Western Kenya
- (USP, Brazil) – TBD
