The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 279 No 7473 p417
13 October 2007

Society summary

Symposium will ask: can infectious diseases be brought under control?

A conference on “The control of infectious diseases: virulence, antibiotics and bacterial infection”, jointly hosted by the Royal Pharmaceutical Society and the Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences, is to be held at the Society’s London headquarters on 30 January 2008.

The symposium is designed to examine the evolution of antibiotic resistance, current knowledge of bacterial virulence and infection, and strategies being developed to tackle the threats posed by the emergence of hypervirulent, multi-resistant bacteria.
The symposium will include talks on:

• Antibiotic drug discovery in the post-genomic age

• The development of new antistaphylococcal agents

It should be of interest to those working in the field of microbial infection and anti-infective agents, health care professionals, industrial researchers and academics.

Readers can contact science@rpsgb.org for a programme, or can download one (PDF 240K).