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29th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Parasitology

15-17 March 2021

Virtual conference

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

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