Drug Development Strategies for Integrating Academia, Non-governmental Organizations (NGOs), and Industry Based on Experience in Neglected and Infectious Diseases
Track
:
Track 18: Rare/Neglected Diseases
Program Code:
122
Date:
Monday, June 25, 2012
Time:
10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
EST
CHAIR
:
Melynda Watkins, Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), United States
Ms. Watkins is responsible overall Program Strategy Management at Aptiv to guide and secure the most appropriate and cost effective solutions for a project based on input from development team members. She has worked in the Global Health Arena with the CPDD based at UNC and several other PDPs.
Bob Jacobs is Director of Chemistry, focused on Neglected Disease Drug Discovery at SCYNEXIS, Inc. Prior to joining SCYNEXIS in 2005, Bob was Assoc. Dir. of Medicinal Chemistry at AstraZeneca in CNS Discovery. Bob received his PhD in Organic Chemistry from Cornell University in 1985.
Melynda Watkins, Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), United States
Ms. Watkins is responsible overall Program Strategy Management at Aptiv to guide and secure the most appropriate and cost effective solutions for a project based on input from development team members. She has worked in the Global Health Arena with the CPDD based at UNC and several other PDPs.
Eric Easom, Anacor Pharmaceuticals, United States
Description
This session will describe drug development strategies for integrating academia, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and industry based on experience for the development of drugs for neglected and infectious diseases in the global health arena.
Learning Objectives: Analyze the area of neglected disease drug development to determine program designs to facilitate go/no-go decisions Describe the strategies for virtual drug development to facilitate programs in these diseases Identify strategies for partnering to facilitate programs in developing nations.