Event Programme

Date: Mon 3rd July 2023 | Venue: SECC, Glasgow

Antibiotics: Solving the Crisis Event Programme

WCP KEYNOTE

08:30 – 09:20: Professor Dame Sally Davies (UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance): No time to wait: global progress and challenges in tackling antimicrobial resistance

09:20 – 09:45: Refreshments and Registration

 

SYMPOSIUM: ANTIBIOTICS, SOLVING THE CRISIS

09:45 – 10:20: Professor Mark Woolhouse (University of Edinburgh, Scotland): One Health Approaches to Tackling Antimicrobial Resistance

10:20 – 10:55: Professor Laura JV Piddock (GARDP, Switzerland): GARDP: Working Globally to Address the Antimicrobial Crisis

10:55 – 11:15: Professor Darko Modun (University of Split, Croatia): Number & proportion of phase III drug trials for infections, 2016-2021

11:15 – 11:40: Dr Rebecca McHugh (University of Glasgow, Scotland): Recent Advances in Antimicrobial Drug Discovery

11:40 – 12:15: Dr Matthew Ronsheim (ENTASIS Therapeutics, Boston, USA) – Antimicrobial Resistance: Innovation Can Avert the Silent Pandemic, But Can We Sustain It?

 

PENICILLIN SESSION

12:30 – 12:55: Ashley J. Stevens, D.Phil.(Oxon) (Focus IP Group, LLC, USA) – The Penicillin Story

12:55 – 13:15: Professor Mike Barrett (University of Glasgow, Scotland) – Presentation to Sheila LeBlanc, the daughter of penicillin’s first patient  

 

Please note this timetable may be amended prior to the symposium