Programme
Symposium T4
Infectious Diseases: the battle we will win
Wednesday 24 May 2017
09:00-12:00
Stockholmsmässan : K16
Co- Chair(s): Linda Hakes, APS and Ulf Janzon, IPS
Programme
09:00 – 09:10 Opening remarks from the Chair
09:10 – 09:45 Economic implications of antimicrobial resistance and ineffective treatments
Murray Aitken, QuintilesIMS Institute, USA
09:45- 10:20 Scientific approaches to tackle antimicrobial resistance
Ron de Winter, COMBACTE, The Netherlands
10:20 - 10:40 BREAK
10:40 – 11:15 Tackling tuberculosis
Klaus Romero, The Critical Path Institute, USA
11:15 – 11:50 Tropical parasitic diseases – the challenge of developing effective treatments
Alan Fairlamb, University of Dundee, UK
11:50 – 12:00 Closing remarks from the Chair