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22nd Drug Design & Development Seminar

12-15 July 2022

Munich, Germany

The Drug Design & Development Seminar is organized by the German Society for Parasitology, in collaboration with Universität Bern, DNDi, and LMU Munich.

Sessions

Development of alternative treatments for filarial diseases

Date: Tuesday, 12 July 2022
Time: 9:20-11:00

Keynote: Sabine Specht, Head of Filarial Disease, DNDi

Chair: Lucienne Tritten, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Resolution of PZQ interaction with a parasitic flatworm ion channel
Jonathan S. Marchant, Medical College of Wisconsin, USA
Pre-clinical development of Corallopyronin A – a novel natural product active against filarial nematodes
Kenneth Pfarr, University Hospital Bonn, Germany
The molecular targets of macrocyclic lactones in the horse parasite Parascaris univalens
Claude L. Charvet, INRAE, Université de Tours, France

Natural selection on transmission investment facilitates the spread of drug resistance in Plasmodium falciparum

Date: Friday, 15 July 2022
Time: 9:00-10:40

Keynote: Matthias Marti, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Chair: Sabine Specht, Head of Filarial Disease, DNDi

Characterisation of Alp1 and Alp2b as transmission-blocking targets of Plasmodium
Yukino Kobayashi, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany
Protein abundance and folding rather than the redox state of Kelch13 determine the artimisinin susceptibility of Plasmodium falciparum
Marcel Deponte, Technical University of Kaiserslautern, Germany
Preclinical Studies to support the development of M5717, a P. falciparum Elongation Factor 2 Inhibitor
Thomas Spangenberg, Global Health Institute of Merck, Eysins, Switzerland

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