Drug Discovery Africa-Programme and Speakers

Drug Discovery Africa will start at 1300 on Wednesday 12th March and run through to 1730 on Friday 14th March.

The Conference will be organised into 5 sessions.

Each session will contain talks from invited speakers and short-talks from early career researchers selected through submitted abstracts.

There will be Poster sessions on Thursday and Friday from 1230-1400

There will be plenty of opportunities to meet your fellow researchers through the refreshment breaks, lunch , poster sessions and evening buffets.

Registration for the conference covers all scientific sessions and the Wednesday and Thursday evening social events.

Download the programme Drug Discovery Africa-Programme

Wednesday 12th March

1300-1830 Session 1- Clinical trials and Field studies

18:30 Welcome Reception and dinner

Thursday 13th March

0900-1230 Session 2- Drug targets and Drug target validation

1230-1400 Lunch and Poster session

1400-18.30 Session 3- Medicinal and Computational drug discovery

18:30 Networking and dinner

Friday 14th March

0900-1230 Session 4- DMPK and Toxicology

1230-1400 Lunch and Poster session

1400-1730 Session 5- 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, Zimbabwe
  • 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
  • Erick Strauss, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
  • Roslyn Thelingwani, AiBST, Zimbabwe
  • Susan Wyllie, University of Dundee, UK