PROGRAMME:

New Indigo Workshop
8 and 9 of September 2011 at IBMC, Porto, Portugal
Host Institutions: I3S

 

PROGRAMME:

 

DAY 1: Anti-trypanosomatid drugs: from the clinic to therapeutic targets and drugs
9.00	Welcome
9.20	Leishmaniasis: Clinical manifestations, therapy and threat of drug resistance
	Sarman Singh, Rajendra Memorial Research Institute of Medical Sciences, Agamkuan, Patna, India
10.00	New insights on leishmaniasis in immunosuppressive conditions [AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD]
	Javier Moreno, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, Spain
10.40	Coffee break
11.10	In silico approaches to target drug discovery
	Nilanjan Roy, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, India
11.50	A rational approach for drug targeting with special reference to Leishmania SIR2 [AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD]
	Ali Ouaissi, INSERM, Montpellier, France
12.30	Lunch break and poster session I
14.30	The discovery of thiadiaza derivatives as pteridine reductase inhibitors in combinations with pyrimetamine as drugs against Leishmania parasites [AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD]
	Maria Paola Costi, Universita Degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
15.10	Mechanism of amphotericin B resistance in clinical isolates of Leishmania donovani in Bihar
	Pradeep Das, Rajendra Memorial Research Institute Of Medical Sciences. Agam Kuan, Patna, India
15.50	Coffee break and poster session I (Antiparasitic drugs)
17.20	Hypusine bisynthetic pathway as a novel drug target in L. donovani
	R. Madhubala, School of Life Sciences, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
18.00	End of the day
18.15	ERA–Net Meeting

 

 

DAY 2: Antitumour drugs: from molecular target validation to novel drugs
9.00	Towards new medicines or myths? - The importance of biological target validation in drug discovery [AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD]
	David Haigh, Centre for Cancer Research & Cell Biology, Queen's University Belfast, UK
9.40	Targeting PI3K/mTOR cell signaling pathway in cancer
	Carlos Garcia-Echeverria, Sanofi Aventis, France
10.20	Coffee break
10.50	Targeting angiogenesis in cancer [AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD]
	Raquel Soares, FMUP, Portugal
11.30	Classical tumour resistance in the molecular age [AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD]
12.10	Lunch break
14.10	Polyamine derivatives: synthesis and their use in parasitic and cancer diseases?
	Paul kong Thoo Lin, Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen, UK
14.50	Selected oral communications I (Antiparasitic drugs) (3x20min) ORAL COMMUNICATION 1 - [AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD] ORAL COMMUNICATION 2 - [AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD] ORAL COMMUNICATION 3 - [AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD]
15.50	Coffee break and poster session II (Antitumour drugs)
17.20	Selected oral communications II (Antitumour drugs) (3x20min) ORAL COMMUNICATION 4 - [AVAILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD] ORAL COMMUNICATION 5 ORAL COMMUNICATION 6
18.20	Adjourn

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scientific committee: Anabela Cordeiro, FFUP and IBMC, Portugal | M Helena Vasconcelos, FFUP and IPATIMUP, Portugal | M São José Nascimento, FFUP and CEQUIMED-UP, Portugal | Ali Ouaissi, INSERM, Montpellier, France | Nilanjan Roy, National of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, India

organizing committee: Anabela Cordeiro, FFUP and IBMC, Portugal | M Helena Vasconcelos, FFUP and IPATIMUP, Portugal | Sofia Costa Lima, IBMC | Hugo Seca, IPATIMUP and FFUP
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