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Translating New Technologies to Improve Public Health in Africa Organizer(s): James L. Bennett, Mamoun Homeida, Stephanie L. James and Peter J. Hotez Date: May 15 - 20, 2008 Location: Speke Resort & Conference Centre, Kampala, Uganda Part of the Keystone Symposia Global Health Series, Supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation Summary of Meeting: The question of how to employ new technologies that have evolved out of the various genome/proteome projects and apply them to the neglected diseases within a clinical or research setting in Africa, or any other part of the developing world, will be the focus of this meeting. The organizers of this meeting have brought together a group of internationally recognized investigators who will provide practical insights for taking cutting edge concepts in the biosciences and applying them towards a better understanding of these diseases and/or the design of better strategies for controlling them. This meeting will also address operational issues such as the better integration of the various disease-specific control strategies and the need for capacity building especially as it relates to the issues surrounding clinical trials. Global Health Travel Award Deadline: December 17 2007 Scholarship Deadline: January 15 2008 Discounted Abstract Deadline: January 15 2008 Abstract Deadline: February 18 2008 Discounted Registration Deadline: March 17 2008 We gratefully acknowledge additional support for this conference from: We appreciate the organizations that provide Keystone Symposia with additional support, such as marketing and advertising: Click here to view more of these organizations Special thanks to the following for their support of Keystone Symposia initiatives to increase participation at this meeting by scientists from underrepresented backgrounds: Click here to view more of these organizations

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Translating New Technologies to Improve Public Health in Africa

Organizer(s): James L. Bennett, Mamoun Homeida, Stephanie L. James and Peter J. Hotez

Date: May 15 - 20, 2008
Location: Speke Resort & Conference Centre, Kampala, Uganda

Part of the Keystone Symposia Global Health Series, Supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation

Summary of Meeting:

The question of how to employ new technologies that have evolved out of the various genome/proteome projects and apply them to the neglected diseases within a clinical or research setting in Africa, or any other part of the developing world, will be the focus of this meeting. The organizers of this meeting have brought together a group of internationally recognized investigators who will provide practical insights for taking cutting edge concepts in the biosciences and applying them towards a better understanding of these diseases and/or the design of better strategies for controlling them. This meeting will also address operational issues such as the better integration of the various disease-specific control strategies and the need for capacity building especially as it relates to the issues surrounding clinical trials.

Global Health Travel Award Deadline: December 17 2007

Scholarship Deadline: January 15 2008

Discounted Abstract Deadline: January 15 2008

Abstract Deadline: February 18 2008

Discounted Registration Deadline: March 17 2008

We gratefully acknowledge additional support for this conference from:

We appreciate the organizations that provide Keystone Symposia with additional support, such as marketing and advertising:

Click here to view more of these organizations

Special thanks to the following for their support of Keystone Symposia initiatives to increase participation at this meeting by scientists from underrepresented backgrounds:

Click here to view more of these organizations

Program


Thursday, May 15 \| 3:00PM - 7:30PM Registration Room: Victoria Ballroom
Thursday, May 15 \| 6:30PM - 7:30PM Refreshments Room: Poolside Garden
Thursday, May 15 \| 7:30PM - 8:30PM Keynote Session: Engineering Solutions for the Neglected Dis eases Room: Victoria Ballroom Speaker 1 of 1 Stephen Quake, Stanford University, USA Low Cost Diagnostic Tools for the Developing World
Friday, May 16 \| 7:30AM - 8:30AM Breakfast Room: Nyanja Restaurant
Friday, May 16 \| 7:30AM - 8:30AM Poster Setup Room: Victoria Ballroom Posters of sessions 1 and 2 may be set for both days.
Friday, May 16 \| 8:30AM - 11:30AM The Current Status or Overview of the Major Infectious Disea ses of Africa Room: Victoria Ballroom Speaker 1 of 4 Terrie E. Taylor, Michigan State University, USA Malaria: A Cunning Adversary
Friday, May 16 \| 8:30AM - 11:30AM The Current Status or Overview of the Major Infectious Disea ses of Africa Room: Victoria Ballroom Speaker 2 of 4 * Charles H. King, Case Western Reserve University, USA Helminths-A Reassessment of their Impact and the Need for New Approaches to Control
Friday, May 16 \| 8:30AM - 11:30AM The Current Status or Overview of the Major Infectious Disea ses of Africa Room: Victoria Ballroom Speaker 3 of 4 Elizabeth L. Corbett, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Med / MLW Trust Clinical Research Programme, Malawi Current Status of TB in Africa
Friday, May 16 \| 8:30AM - 11:30AM The Current Status or Overview of the Major Infectious Disea ses of Africa Room: Victoria Ballroom Speaker 4 of 4 Gary J. Nabel, Sanofi, USA Rational Vaccine Design and the Development of an AIDS Vaccine
Friday, May 16 \| 9:20AM - 9:40AM Coffee Break Room: Victoria Ballroom Foyer
Friday, May 16 \| 11:30AM - 12:30PM Lunch Room: Stables Restaurant
Friday, May 16 \| 12:00PM - 2:30PM Poster Session 1 Room: Victoria Ballroom
Friday, May 16 \| 2:30PM - 4:45PM Mining Genomic, Proteomic and Structural Information from In fectious Agents Room: Victoria Ballroom Speaker 1 of 3 David S. Roos, University of Pennsylvania, USA Designing and Mining Pathogen Genome Databases: Genes to Drugs, Vaccines and Diagnostics
Friday, May 16 \| 2:30PM - 4:45PM Mining Genomic, Proteomic and Structural Information from In fectious Agents Room: Victoria Ballroom Speaker 2 of 3 Philip L. Felgner, University of California, Irvine, USA Profiling the Immune Response to Infections on a Whole Microorganism Proteome Scale
Friday, May 16 \| 2:30PM - 4:45PM Mining Genomic, Proteomic and Structural Information from In fectious Agents Room: Victoria Ballroom Speaker 3 of 3 * Wim G.J. Hol, University of Washington, USA Structure-Based Design of Anti-Protozoals
Friday, May 16 \| 4:30PM - 5:00PM Coffee Break Room: Victoria Ballroom Foyer
Friday, May 16 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Workshop 1: Panel on Biomedical Capacity Building in Africa Room: Victoria Ballroom Discussion and debate on the best mechanisms for neglected disease research capacity building, examined at three levels: basic scientific research, translational research, and field research. Speaker 1 of 6 * Terrie E. Taylor, Michigan State University, USA
Friday, May 16 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Workshop 1: Panel on Biomedical Capacity Building in Africa Room: Victoria Ballroom Discussion and debate on the best mechanisms for neglected disease research capacity building, examined at three levels: basic scientific research, translational research, and field research. Speaker 2 of 6 Barbara J. Sina, FIC/NIH/HHS, USA
Friday, May 16 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Workshop 1: Panel on Biomedical Capacity Building in Africa Room: Victoria Ballroom Discussion and debate on the best mechanisms for neglected disease research capacity building, examined at three levels: basic scientific research, translational research, and field research. Speaker 3 of 6 Kelly Chibale, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Friday, May 16 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Workshop 1: Panel on Biomedical Capacity Building in Africa Room: Victoria Ballroom Discussion and debate on the best mechanisms for neglected disease research capacity building, examined at three levels: basic scientific research, translational research, and field research. Speaker 4 of 6 Mamoun Homeida, University of Medical Sciences and Technology, Sudan
Friday, May 16 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Workshop 1: Panel on Biomedical Capacity Building in Africa Room: Victoria Ballroom Discussion and debate on the best mechanisms for neglected disease research capacity building, examined at three levels: basic scientific research, translational research, and field research. Speaker 5 of 6 Julia Royall, National Library of Medicine, USA
Friday, May 16 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Workshop 1: Panel on Biomedical Capacity Building in Africa Room: Victoria Ballroom Discussion and debate on the best mechanisms for neglected disease research capacity building, examined at three levels: basic scientific research, translational research, and field research. Speaker 6 of 6 Amadou Garba, Niger Ministry of Public Health, Niger
Saturday, May 17 \| 7:30AM - 8:30AM Breakfast Room: Nyanja Restaurant
Saturday, May 17 \| 8:30AM - 11:30AM Research in Support of Developing Better Strategies to Contr ol Malaria Room: Victoria Ballroom Speaker 1 of 3 * Janet Hemingway, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, UK Innovative Disease Vector Control
Saturday, May 17 \| 8:30AM - 11:30AM Research in Support of Developing Better Strategies to Contr ol Malaria Room: Victoria Ballroom Speaker 2 of 3 Ian C. Bathurst, Medicines for Malaria Ventures, Switzerland Discovering, Developing and Delivering a New Generation of Antimalarial Drugs
Saturday, May 17 \| 8:30AM - 11:30AM Research in Support of Developing Better Strategies to Contr ol Malaria Room: Victoria Ballroom Speaker 3 of 3 Sebastian A. Mikolajczak, Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases, USA Live Attenuated Pre-Erythrocytic Malaria Parasite Vaccines
Saturday, May 17 \| 9:20AM - 9:40AM Coffee Break Room: Victoria Ballroom Foyer
Saturday, May 17 \| 11:30AM - 12:30PM Lunch Room: Stables Restaurant
Saturday, May 17 \| 12:00PM - 2:30PM Poster Session 2 Room: Victoria Ballroom
Saturday, May 17 \| 2:30PM - 4:30PM Research in Support of Developing Better Strategies to Contr ol Tuberculosis Room: Victoria Ballroom Speaker 1 of 3 Mark Perkins, Foundation for New Diagnostics, Switzerland Developing New Technologies for Diagnosis of TB and Drug Susceptibility Testing
Saturday, May 17 \| 2:30PM - 4:30PM Research in Support of Developing Better Strategies to Contr ol Tuberculosis Room: Victoria Ballroom Speaker 2 of 3 Anthony J. Hawkridge, Aeras Global TB Vaccine Foundation, South Africa Developing New Vaccines Against Tuberculosis
Saturday, May 17 \| 2:30PM - 4:30PM Research in Support of Developing Better Strategies to Contr ol Tuberculosis Room: Victoria Ballroom Speaker 3 of 3 * Stefan H. E. Kaufmann, Max Planck Institute for Infection Biology, Berlin, Germany Biomarkers in Tuberculosis for Monitoring of Vaccine and Drug Trials and Protection of Disease Susceptibility
Saturday, May 17 \| 4:30PM - 5:00PM Coffee Break Room: Victoria Ballroom Foyer
Saturday, May 17 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Workshop 2: Respiratory Tract Infection / Diarrheal Disease and Nutrition Room: Victoria Ballroom Speaker 1 of 4 * Serap Aksoy, Yale University School of Public Health, USA
Saturday, May 17 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Workshop 2: Respiratory Tract Infection / Diarrheal Disease and Nutrition Room: Victoria Ballroom Speaker 2 of 4 Gagandeep Kang, Christian Medical College/Translational Health Science and Technology Institute, India Diarrheal Disease
Saturday, May 17 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Workshop 2: Respiratory Tract Infection / Diarrheal Disease and Nutrition Room: Victoria Ballroom Speaker 3 of 4 Mike English, KEMRI / Wellcome Trust Research Programme, Kenya The Challenge of Childhood Pneumonia in Africa
Saturday, May 17 \| 5:00PM - 7:00PM Workshop 2: Respiratory Tract Infection / Diarrheal Disease and Nutrition Room: Victoria Ballroom Speaker 4 of 4 Jeff Williams, Halosource Inc., USA Emerging Technologies for Point-of-Use Treatment and Storage of Household Drinking Water
Sunday, May 18 \| 7:30AM - 8:30AM Breakfast Room: Nyanja Restaurant
Sunday, May 18 \| 8:30AM - 11:30AM Research in Support of Developing Better Strategies to Contr ol the Helminths Room: Victoria Ballroom Speaker 1 of 3 Richard W. Komuniecki, University of Toledo, USA Aminergic Signaling as a Target for Anthelminthic Drug Discovery: Use of Chimeric Caenorhabditis elegans Expressing Homologous Amine Receptors from Parasitic Nematodes as a Screening Platform
Sunday, May 18 \| 8:30AM - 11:30AM Research in Support of Developing Better Strategies to Contr ol the Helminths Room: Victoria Ballroom Speaker 2 of 3 * James H. McKerrow, University of California, San Diego, USA Developing Drugs for Parasitic Diseases in an Academic Incubator
Sunday, May 18 \| 8:30AM - 11:30AM Research in Support of Developing Better Strategies to Contr ol the Helminths Room: Victoria Ballroom Speaker 3 of 3 Christopher D. Earl, BIO Ventures for Global Health, USA Expanding Biotechnology Industry Initiatives in R&D for Neglected Diseases
Sunday, May 18 \| 9:20AM - 9:40AM Coffee Break Room: Victoria Ballroom Foyer
Sunday, May 18 \| 11:30AM - 12:30PM Lunch Room: Stables Restaurant
Sunday, May 18 \| 12:30PM - 2:30PM Workshop 3: How to Write Your Paper and Get it Published Room: Victoria Ballroom Preparation: Structuring your paper; Tips on how to present your work to an editor; Why editors reject papers and how you can reduce the chances of rejection; and Writing style: Using effective communication to present your research. Speaker 1 of 1 * Serap Aksoy, Yale University School of Public Health, USA
Sunday, May 18 \| 2:30PM - 3:00PM Coffee Break Room: Victoria Ballroom Foyer
Sunday, May 18 \| 3:00PM - 5:00PM Research in Support of Developing Better Strategies to Contr ol HIV Infections Room: Victoria Ballroom Speaker 1 of 3 Jordan Tappero, U.S. Public Health Service, Uganda Evaluating the Population Incidence Impact of High Coverage HIV Prevention Interventions
Sunday, May 18 \| 3:00PM - 5:00PM Research in Support of Developing Better Strategies to Contr ol HIV Infections Room: Victoria Ballroom Speaker 2 of 3 Gary J. Nabel, Sanofi, USA Ebola Virus
Sunday, May 18 \| 3:00PM - 5:00PM Research in Support of Developing Better Strategies to Contr ol HIV Infections Room: Victoria Ballroom Speaker 3 of 3 Barbara J. Sina, FIC/NIH/HHS, USA Building Research Capacity in Africa
Monday, May 19 \| 7:30AM - 8:30AM Breakfast Room: Nyanja Restaurant
Monday, May 19 \| 8:30AM - 11:30AM Operational Issues Regarding Integration of Control Strategi es to Reduce the Morbidity and Mortality of the Neglected Diseases Room: Victoria Ballroom Speaker 1 of 3 Amadou Garba, Niger Ministry of Public Health, Niger Progress of Schistosomiasis Control in West Africa
Monday, May 19 \| 8:30AM - 11:30AM Operational Issues Regarding Integration of Control Strategi es to Reduce the Morbidity and Mortality of the Neglected Diseases Room: Victoria Ballroom Speaker 2 of 3 * John Gyapong, Ghana Health Service, Ghana Controlling Parasite Induced Blindness
Monday, May 19 \| 8:30AM - 11:30AM Operational Issues Regarding Integration of Control Strategi es to Reduce the Morbidity and Mortality of the Neglected Diseases Room: Victoria Ballroom Speaker 3 of 3 James Bennett, USA Concluding Remarks
Monday, May 19 \| 9:20AM - 9:40AM Coffee Break Room: Victoria Ballroom Foyer
Monday, May 19 \| 11:00AM - 11:00AM On Own for Lunch
Monday, May 19 \| 3:30PM - 4:00PM Coffee Available Room: Victoria Ballroom Foyer
Monday, May 19 \| 4:00PM - 6:00PM Challenges of Enhancing Biomedical Infrastructure in Africa Room: Victoria Ballroom Speaker 1 of 3 Mamoun Homeida, University of Medical Sciences and Technology, Sudan Self Sustaining Biomedical Institute in Sudan: A Private Initiative
Monday, May 19 \| 4:00PM - 6:00PM Challenges of Enhancing Biomedical Infrastructure in Africa Room: Victoria Ballroom Speaker 2 of 3 Julia Royall, National Library of Medicine, USA The Change Challenge of Information Technology Infrastructure in Research: Are there Positive Outcomes or is Everything Just Louder and Faster?
Monday, May 19 \| 4:00PM - 6:00PM Challenges of Enhancing Biomedical Infrastructure in Africa Room: Victoria Ballroom Speaker 3 of 3 * Kelly Chibale, University of Cape Town, South Africa Unique Models for Collaborative Drug Discovery Networks and Partnerships in Africa
Monday, May 19 \| 6:00PM - 7:00PM Social Hour with Lite Bites Room: Poolside
Monday, May 19 \| 7:00PM - 10:00PM Entertainment Room: Poolside
Monday, May 19 \| 7:00PM - 10:00PM Cash Bar Room: Poolside
Tuesday, May 20 \| 10:25AM - 10:25AM Departure *Session Chair.