New antimalarials: from drug discovery to clinical trials (19 e 20/12)

Data: 19 e 20/12

Horário: 9h

Local: ICB II, Sala “Samuel Pessoa”, Av. Prof. Lineu Prestes, nº 1374 – Butantã – São Paulo/SP – CEP 05508-000

Programação

Symposium – New antimalarials: from drug discovery to clinical trials This two-day international symposium is co-organized by the Department of Parasitology of the Institute of Biomedical Sciences, University of São Paulo, Brazil, and the Centre for Malaria Research, Department of Microbiology,Tumor and Cell Biology, Karolinska Institute, Solna, Sweden. Between 19 and 20 December, 2022, a series of conferences will cover several aspects of antimalarial drug development and testing, including drug discovery strategies, drug resistance surveillance, pharmacogenomics, and clinical trial design and execution. Students and post-doctoral fellows are invited to present their research projects and preliminary results as in-person short talks.All presentations will be in English. Confirmed speakers who will participate in-person or remotely via Zoom include:

• Anna Caroline Aguiar (Federal University of São Paulo, Brazil) (co-organizer)
• Brice Campo (Medicines for Malaria Venture)
• Célia R. S. Garcia (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
• Daniel Y. Bargieri (University of São Paulo, Brazil) (co-organizer)
• David A. Fidock (Columbia University, United States)
• Dhelio B. Pereira (Centro de Pesquisa em Medicina Tropical de Rondônia, Brazil)
• Glaucius Oliva (University of São Paulo, Brazil)
• Gustavo Capatti Cassiano (Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal)
• José Pedro Gil (Karolinska Institute, Sweden; Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal) (co-organizer)
• Kim Williamson (Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, United States)
• Leonardo J. Carvalho (Fiocruz, Brazil)
• Leyre Pernaute (Karolinska Institute, Swedenl)
• Lise Musset (Pasteur Institute of Cayenne, French Guiana)
• Luís Carlos Dias (University of Campinas, Brazil)
• Marcelo U. Ferreira (University of São Paulo, Brazil) (co-organizer)
• Pedro Cravo (Nova University of Lisbon, Portugal)
• Taís Nóbrega de Sousa (Karolinska Institute, Sweden; Fiocruz, Brazil)

Student credits: Graduate students from the University of São Paulo or other Brazilian institutions who will attend the symposium in person can register into the graduate course “Scientific Bases of Malaria Eradication” (BMP5786) of the Graduate Program “Biology of the Host-Pathogen Relationships” and earn 2 credit units.

Please contact Mrs. Silvia Camargo (pgbmp@icb.usp.br; with copy to muferrei@usp.br) regarding your registration.

Registration fee: There is no registration fee.

Financial support: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP) and the Swedish Research Council.