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Thursday, May 25th | 9:00 am - 4:30pm EDT
Hybrid event |听Free event in-person听
Reception following 4:30 - 6:00pm听
University Centre, Ballroom, 3rd Floor
3480 McTavish St, Montreal
The 成人VR视频 AMR Centre hosted its 3rd Annual Symposium on May 25, 2023. We welcomed over 100 people for an in-person event to network and discuss AMR-related topics, AMR community research interests and needs, coupled with the live streaming of our keynote speaker, Dr Ramanan Laxminarayan, for those who attended virtually.听 We also enjoyed a special joint presentation by听Yves Brun (U. Montr茅al) and Anne Marinier (IRIC).
Keynote speaker bio Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan,听Ph.D., M.P.H., FIDSA
Dr. Laxminarayan is the Founder and President of the , founded as the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP). He is a senior research scholar at Princeton University. He is an affiliate professor at the University of Washington, senior associate at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and a visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland.
Dr. Laxminarayan chairs the board of GARD-P, a global product development partnership created by the World Health Organization, that aims to develop and deliver new treatments for bacterial infections. He is founder and board chair at HealthCubed, which works to improve access to healthcare and diagnostics worldwide.
Dr. Ramanan Laxminarayan is presenting on the topic, "State of the World鈥檚 Antibiotics in 2023听-听an analysis of antibiotic resistance and its drivers around the world".
Program听
9:00 AM听 听Welcome
9:10 AM听 听成人VR视频 faculty short talks: Therapeutics Session
Madhukar Pai, Epidemiology, Biostatistics and Occupational Health, 鈥淎ntibiotic use by primary care providers in low & middle-income countries: lessons from mystery client studies鈥�
Richard Gold, Law, "Open science drug development for AMR"
Karine Auclair, Chemistry, "Helping macrophages: Inhibition of itaconate degradation as a new strategy to treat infections."
Jerome Waldispuhl, Computer Science, "Leveling Up Citizen Science for AMR research"
10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM Keynote presentation: Ramanan Laxminarayan, One Health Trust, "State of the World鈥檚 Antibiotics in 2023 - an analysis of antibiotic resistance and its drivers around the world"
12:00 PM Lunch
1:00 PM Special presentation: Yves Brun (U. Montr茅al) and Anne Marinier (IRIC), "An integrated, AI-driven high throughput screening approach for antibacterial drug discovery: high resolution microscopy and DNA-encoded libraries"
1:45 PM Trainee poster session with PM Break听
2:45 PM 成人VR视频 faculty short talks: Diagnostics and Surveillance Session
Sara Mahshid, Bioengineering, "Nanomaterials based colorimetric accelerates the phenotypic profiling of antibiotic susceptibility"
Arnold Kristof, Medicine, 鈥淚mplementing Research in ICU-associated Infections and Antimicrobial Resistance at the MUHC鈥�
Marcel Behr, Infectious Diseases, 鈥淨uantifying TB Resistance鈥�
Dominic Frigon, Civil Engineering, 鈥淲astewater-based surveillance of AMR, necessity for integrated One Health approaches鈥�
4:20 PM Closing
4:30-6:00 PM Post-event reception
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