The annual Grand Challenges meeting that brings together funding and research partners throughout the Grand Challenges network and beyond.
Session
The evolving role of pathogen genomics in public health surveillance
The role of genomics in cholera control
Date: Tuesday, 10 October
Time: 15:30 – 17:30
Session Chair: Natsuko Imai, Senior Research Manager, Disease Tracking, Wellcome
Session Chair: Supriya Kumar, Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
| State of global cholera transmission Nick Thomson, Head of Parasites and Microbes Programme and Group Leader, Wellcome Sanger Institute |
| Cholera transmission in southern Africa Mirriam Nyenje, Public Health Institute of Malawi |
| Metadata standards for cholera genomics Josefina Campos, Senior Technical Advisor to the International Pathogen Surveillance Network, WHO hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence |
| Panel Moderator: Sofonias Tessema, Program Lead, Pathogen Genomics, Africa CDC Speakers: –Samuel Kariuki, Eastern Africa Director, DNDi -Eduardo Samo Gudo, Director-General, INS Moçambique -Josefina Campos, Senior Technical Advisor to the International Pathogen Surveillance Network, WHO hub for Pandemic and Epidemic Intelligence -Antoine Abou Fayad, Assistant Professor, American University of Beirut |
Joint session: Advancing drug discovery for global health / Applying a translational lens to global health
Drug discovery & development opportunities at the host-pathogen interface for NTDs
Date: Wednesday, 11 October
Time: 10:45 – 12:45
Session facilitator: Gang Liu, Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Session facilitator: Gary Means, Senior Program Officer, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
Session facilitator: Charles Mowbray, Discovery Director, DNDi
| Introduction Charles Mowbray, Discovery Director, DNDi |
| AI guided drug re-purposing of HDTs for Dengue Dan Smith, Lead Data Scientist, BenevolentAI |
| Reverting granuloma formation in female genital schistosomiasis (FGS) Sabine Specht, Head of Filarial Disease Program, DNDi |
| Chagas disease: Exploring HDT to achieve parasitological cure and limit pathology caused by a chronic infection with T. cruzi Walderez Dutra, Professor of Cell Biology Dept. Morphology, Institute of Biological Sciences Federal University of Minas Gerais |
| Approaches to tackle complicated forms of cutaneous leishmaniasis through HDTs Maria Adelaida Gómez, Coordinator of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry Leishmaniasis Research Program, Approaches to tackle complicated forms of cutaneous leishmaniasis through HDTs Rationale for the different approaches and compounds in the pipeline, Centro Internacional de Entrenamiento e Investigaciones Medicas – CIDEIM |
