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Starting an antibacterial drug discovery screening program

On 05 September 2023 from 11:00 AM - 12:30PM EDT, GARDP will host a webinar in collaboration with CC4CARB. This live broadcasted webinar will include the two presentations noted below and an interactive Q&A session. You can register to the free event here. If you have questions, feel free to contact revive@gardp.org or CC4CARB@rti.org.

• Speaker/Presentation 1: Bruce Blough, Principal Investigator and Senior Research Chemist, Chemistry Center for Combating Antibiotic Resistant Bacteria - CC4CARB & RTI International (USA)

  Building a focused compound library (Bruce Blough) - Introducing the Chemistry Center for Combating Antibiotic Resistance Bacteria (CC4CARB) NIAID program - Presenting the solicitation, review, design, production, and distribution of the CC4CARB collection.

• Speaker/Presentation 2: Gerry Wright, Professor, DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, McMaster University (Canada) Moderator Philip Gribbon, Head of Discovery Research, Fraunhofer ITMP (Germany)

  Screening strategies (Gerry Wright) - Presenting various screening strategies to identify antibacterial hits (Gram positive and Gram negative) - Discussing target-based vs. target agnostic approaches - Next steps in derisking hits.

Register to the free event