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Unless otherwise stated, further
details of meetings organised by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society
can be obtained from the Society at 1 Lambeth High Street, London
SE1 7JN. Tel 020 7735 9141. Fax 020 7735 7629
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Anti-infectives: the way forward
The Royal Pharmaceutical Society is to host a two-day multidisciplinary
symposium on “Anti-infectives: the way forward” on 8 and 9
July. The aim of the meeting is to broaden discussion on the response
to antibiotic resistance to cover the range of life sciences that have
an interest in antibiotics.
The theme of the first morning will be the scale of the resistance problem.
An introduction by Lord Soulsby, chairman of the House of Lords Select
Committee on Resistance to Antibiotics, will be followed by an assessment
of the problem nationally by a speaker from the Public Health Laboratory
Service and a global perspective by a speaker from the World Health Organization.
The morning concludes with a paper on the significance to human medicine
of antimicrobial resistance in animals.
The first of two afternoon sessions will examine novel strategies, including
new targets for antibacterials and antivirals and new modalities for treating
bacterial infections. The day’s final session will look at strategies
for novel drug development, with papers on structure-activity modelling
and genomic screening.
Day two will begin with a session on clinical challenges, at which a paper
on the changing pattern of multidrug resistant infection will be followed
by contributions on antibiotic resistance in Gram-positive and in Gram-negative
bacteria. The second morning session will examine prescribing practices
and resistance, with three papers covering hospital, community and veterinary
prescribing.
The afternoon session, on national and international implications, will
begin with a paper on holistic approaches and complementary measures,
after which an assessment of the overall approach to the problem of resistance
will be followed by a final summing-up and discussion.
The full registration fee (which includes morning, coffee, lunch and afternoon
tea on both days and a wine reception after the first day) is £240.
A discounted fee of £160 is available to those paying by personal
cheque who are members of the organising bodies (the Society and the Institute
of Biology) or supporting organisations (Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences,
Association of Clinical Microbiologists, British Electrophoresis Society,
British Society for Cell Biology, Institute of Trichologists, Society
for Applied Microbiology and Society for General Microbiology).
Further details and registration forms are available from the Conference
and Events Manager, Institute of Biology, 20-22 Queensberry Place, London
SW7 2DZ (tel 020 7581 8333 ext 237; fax 020 7589 3606; e-mail a.scales@iob.org).
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