Informações
Data: 06/05/2013 – 14:00:00
Fim: 06/05/2013 – 17:00:00
Onde: CNPEM – Rua Giuseppe Máximo Scolfaro, 10.000 – Campinas, SÃO PAULO 13280000 Brazil – Telefone: 19 35121267
Detalhes
Tropical neglected diseases are a group of diseases that affect underprivileged populations and are characterized by the lack of pharmaceutical R&D investments. In this group, leishmaniasis and Chagas disease are noted for causing high morbidity, for being chronic and difficult to cure. An increase in drug discovery activities for these diseases during the last decade has encouraged advances of new candidates, however the lack of standardized methods and the scarcity of experimental models that relevantly reproduce the human disease both in vitro and in animal models hinders the achievement of significant progress. The aim of this symposium is to discuss current models for Chagas disease and leishmaniasis drug discovery, to search for solutions for the current limitations and present the new approach LNBio has taken in this direction.
Chair: Dr. Lucio Freitas-Junior – LNBio
Lectures:
Current status of leishmaniasis and Chagas disease drug discovery
Eric Chatelain
Head of Drug Discovery
Drugs for Neglected Diseases Initiative (DNDi) – Switzerland
The need for standardization in kinetoplastid drug discovery
Anabela Cordeiro-da-Silva
Parasite Disease
Instituto de Biologia Molecular e Celular – Portugal
Phenotypic assays for Chagas disease and leishmaniasis: leveraging discovery to prevent attrition
Carolina B. Moraes
Chemical Biology of Parasites
LNBio – Brazil
Stress response in parasites and implications for drug development
Sergio Schenkman
Molecular Biology of Parasites
Universidade Federal de São Paulo – Brazil
6th May – 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
LNBio – Room 69
Campus – Centro Nacional de Pesquisa em Energia e Materiais – CNPEM
Giuseppe M. Scolfaro, 10.000 – Guará
Phone: (19) 3512-1010
