DNDi hosted 3 sessions at the XVIII International Congress for Tropical Medicine and Malaria.
Cocktail Reception: Product Development Partnerships (PDPs) for Neglected Diseases
Closed session: 24 September, 19h-19h30
Co-hosted by the Medicines for Malaria Venture (MMV) and DNDi
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Progressing NCEs through clinical development for the treatment of neglected tropical diseases
Session I: 25 September, 09h00-11h00
Chair: Els Torreele, Director of the Public Health Program’s Access to Essential Medicines Initiative, Open Society Foundation
Abstract: This session aimed to give an overview of the realities of developing new drugs for the treatment of neglected tropical diseases, and to present DNDi’s model of progressing NCEs through the development pipeline, with a focus on the main element of success, strong partnerships.
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Topics:
High throughput screening
Lucio Freitas-Junior, IPK
SCYX-7158: an oxaborole entering Phase I for the treatment of HAT (sleeping sickness)
Antoine Tarral, Head of HAT Clinical Program, DNDi
E1224 for Chagas disease: news on a drug candidate from a promising class
Isabela Ribeiro, Head of DNDi’s Clinical Programme in Chagas disease & Frederick Duncanson, Eisai
Nitroimidazoles as a potential new series for visceral leishmaniasis – Fexinidazole and VL-2098
Shyam Sundar, Professor of Medicine, Institute of Medical Sciences Banaras Hindu University (BHU), Varanasi, India
Developing safe and efficacious drugs to treat Chagas disease
Session II: 25 September, 16h45-18h45
Chair: Isabela Ribeiro, Head of Chagas Clinical Program,
DNDi Abstract: The session explored the current state of the Chagas disease portfolio and gave an overview of what is needed to provide patients with a safe, efficacious, easy-to-use and affordable treatment, with a focus on early drug discovery and assessment of treatment efficacy.
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Topics:
Early medicinal chemistry to identify new candidate drugs
Martine Keenan, Head of Drug Discovery, Epichem
Potential drug candidate series: nitroimidazoles and fenarimols
Eric Chatelain, Head of Chagas Discovery & Preclinical Program, DNDi
Efficacy, safety and population pharmacokinetics of benznidazole in children: presentation of results
Jaime Altcheh, Ricardo Gutiérrez Children’s Hospital
Optimization of sampling procedure for PCR technique to assess parasitological response for patients with chronic Chagas disease treated with benznidazole in Aiquile, Bolivia’ – preliminary results
Laurence Flevaud, MSF – Spain
Protozoan: African Trypanosomiasis
Session III/Workshop: 26 September, 14h00-15h30
Topics:
Fexinidazole for HAT
Olaf Valverde, Antoine Tarral, Séverine Blesson, Virginie Gualano, Mathieu Felices, Lionel Hovsepian, Eric Evene, Pascal Voiriot, Nathalie Strub-Wourgaft
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