Drug Discovery-Africa 2025, Save the Date

We invite you to join us at the University of Ghana, Accra from 12-14th March 2025. Our aim is showcase African led drug discovery research against endemic infectious diseases. The conference will bring together leading drug discovery researchers from across Africa and those from Industry and Product Partner Development organisations working alongside them. The conference aims to strengthen existing networks, generate new collaborations and share knowledge. 

Topics to be discussed include

  • Clinical trials and field studies   
  • Drug Targets and target validation 
  • Medicinal and Computational drug discovery 
  • DMPK and Toxicology 
  • African Drug Discovery Networks

Confirmed Speakers include

  • Linda Amoah, NMIMR, University of Ghana, Ghana
  • Lyn-Marie Birkholtz, University of Pretoria, South Africa
  • Rob Bates, GSK
  • Steve Brand, MMV
  • Arnab Chatterjee, Calibr-Skaggs Institute for Innovative Medicines, USA
  • Laura Cleghorn, DDU, University of Dundee, UK
  • Beverly Egyir, NMIMR, University of Ghana, Ghana
  • Edmund Ekuadzi, KNUST, Ghana
  • Jason Hlozek, H3D, South Africa
  • Marcus Lee, University of Dundee, UK
  • Adriaan Kruger, NuvteQ
  • Ujjini Manjuantha, Novartis GH
  • Collen Masimirembwa, AiBST
  • Charles Mowbray, DNDi
  • Fidele Ntie-Kang, University of Buea, Cameroon
  • Dinkorma T. Ouologuem, USTTB, Mali
  • Devasha Redhi, H3D, South Africa
  • Janine Scholefield, CSIR, South Africa
  • Thomas Spangenberg, Merck KGaA
  • Eric Strauss, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
  • Roslyn Thelingwani, AiBST, Zimbabwe
  • Susan Wyllie, University of Dundee, UK

 

Details for registration and the programme will be released at the end of August.

There will be bursaries to support the attendance of early career researchers, details on how to apply will follow.

 

Thank you to

Wellcome for their generous sponsorship which has allowed us to cover the registration and travel costs for early career researchers from Africa.

The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation for covering the costs of the members of GC-ADDA to attend the conference.