Program of the 9th AMR Conference | 25 – 26 February 2025
25 February 2025 Congress Center 2nd floor
09:00 – 10:30 | Pre-conference workshop | Room Sydney
Moderator: Ursula Theuretzbacher, Center for Anti-Infective Agents
Speakers:
Caterina Bissantz, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd
Marc Engelhardt, Basilea Pharmaceutica International Ltd
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08:45 – 10:30 | General Assembly | Room Osaka/Samarkand
Open only to members of the BEAM Alliance
11:00 – 12:00 | Plenary session | Room Sydney
Opening remarks: Frederic Peyrane, BEAM Alliance
Moderator: Kevin Outterson, CARB-X
Speakers:
Katie Young, World Economic Forum
Abdulrhman Mohana, Public Health Agency of Saudi Arabia
Molly Moss, United Nations Foundation
12:00 – 13:30 | Lunch break
12:30 – 13:15 | Workshop | Room Hong Kong
Speaker: Alexander Satz, Executive Director, WuXi AppTec
13:30 – 14:30 | Plenary session | Room Sydney
Moderator: Marc Bonten, European Clinical Research Alliance on Infectious Diseases (ECRAID)
Speakers:
Abi Manesh, Christian Medical College Vellore
Nour Shamas, WHO Task Force of AMR Survivors
Olga Tosas Auguet, World Health Organization
15:00 – 16:00 | Parallel sessions
Room Sydney
Moderator: Christoph Dehio, NCCR AntiResist
Speakers:
Sebastian Hiller, University of Basel
Yuping Li, University of Basel
Rolf Müller, Helmholtz Institute for Pharmaceutical Research Saarland
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Room Singapore
Moderator: Jens Hellwage, InfectoGnostics
Speakers:
Stéphane Gavoille, Molsid
Richard Grohs, Leibniz Institute of Photonic Technology
Marianne Ismail, Microbira Ltd.
Neciah Dorh, FluoretiQ
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Room Osaka/Samarkand
Moderator: Ingrid Wanninger, HYpharm GmbH
Speakers:
Bernhard Krismer, University of Tübingen
Stefan Hagel, University of Jena
Elda Righi, Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust
Radu Botgros, European Medicines Agency
16:00 – 16:30 | Poster presentations
16:30 – 17:30 | Parallel sessions
Room Sydney
Moderator: Markus Zeitlinger, Medical University of Vienna
Speakers:
Alasdair MacGowan, North Bristol NHS Trust
Anouk Muller, Haaglanden Medical Centre
Room Singapore
Moderator: Martin Heidecker, AMR Action Fund
Speakers:
Sebastian Kreuz, Boehringer Ingelheim Venture Fund
Senior Life Sciences Expert, European Investment Bank
Zina Affas Besse, AXA Investment Management
Mark Jones, Basilea Pharmaceutica International Ltd
Lloyd Payne, Kinvardbio
Room Osaka/Samarkand
Moderator: Erin Sparrow, World Health Organization
Speakers:
Tobi Nagel, Phages for Global Health
Usman Nakakana, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Leander Grode, Serum Life Sciences Europe
18:00 – 19:30 | Pitch session | Room Sydney
Moderator: Lloyd Payne, Kineticos Life Sciences AMR Fund
Running order of pitching companies:
1) mycoBiologics Ltd, presented by Fiona Rudkin
2) SoundCell, presented by Aleksandre Japaridze
3) Inicure AB, presented by Peter Olofsson-Sahl
4) DimiCare Biotech, presented by Juan A. Garcia-Sanchez
5) Precise Health SA, presented by José Bila
6) Nostics, presented by Isabell Trinh
7) Elemental Therapeutics, presented by Ella Casale
8) BioTryp Therapeutics, presented by Ash Zarkan
9) Nanodecal, presented by Roberto de la Rica
10) Osta Therapeutics, presented by Éric Samarut
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Prize sponsor
19:30 – 21:00 | Evening reception
26 February 2025 Congress Center 2nd floor
08:30 – 09:30 | Plenary session | Room Sydney
Moderator: Erin Duffy, CARB-X
Speakers:
Adam Johnson, Centauri Therapeutics
Chandrasekhar Nair, Molbio Pvt. Ltd.
Saskia Janssen, TASK
09:30 – 09:40 | Plenary session | Room Sydney
presented by Erin Duffy, CARB-X
10:00 – 11:00 | Parallel sessions
Room Sydney
Moderator: Florence Séjourné, Aurobac Therapeutics
Speakers:
Andreas Diacon, TASK
Glenn Dale, BioVersys AG
Nicolas Veziris, Sorbonne Université
Room Singapore
Moderator: Robert Leo Skov, ESCMID
Speakers:
Sibyl Anthierens, University of Antwerp
Alexander Krause, bioMérieux
Akhil Bansal, AMR Funding Circle
Holger Rohde, Hamburg University Hospital
Room Osaka/Samarkand
Moderator: Peter Beyer, GARDP
Speakers:
Ismael Maatouk, World Health Organization
Usman Nakakana, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
Teri Roberts, GARDP
11:00 – 11:30 | Poster presentations
11:30 – 12:30 | Plenary session | Room Sydney
Moderator: Stephanie Buurman, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd
Speakers:
Aleksandar Danilovski, DALISCO d.o.o.
Herbert Wetli, GARDP
Gabriela Henriques, Centre for Process Innovation Ltd
Carmen Coxon, Medicines & Healthcare products
Regulatory Agency UK
12:30 – 12:40 | Plenary session | Room Sydney
presented by Megan Neary, Wellcome Trust
12:40 – 14:00 | Lunch break
14:00 – 15:00 | Parallel sessions
Room Sydney
Moderator: Rienk Pypstra, tranScrip
Speakers:
Radu Botgros, European Medicines Agency
Marc Bonten,European
Clinical Research Alliance on Infectious Diseases
Clare Nasmyth-Miller, F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd
Supported by
Room Singapore
Moderator: Grace Hampson, Office of Health Economics
Speakers:
Pol Vandenbroucke, Shionogi
Wolfgang Philipp, European Commission
Jasper Claessen, Dutch Ministry of Health
Najy Alsayed, Menarini
Room Osaka/Samarkand
Moderator: Caline Mattar, Global AMR R&D Hub
Speakers:
Yewande Alimi, Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention
Aula Abbara, Imperial College London
Sarah Tschudin-Sutter, Basel University Hospital
Tine Rikke Jørgensen, Copenhagen University & Consultant for WHO
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15:30 – 16:30 | Parallel sessions
Room Sydney
Moderator: Sina Gerbach, INCATE
Speakers:
Astrid Pentz-Murr, GARDP
Patrice Courvalin, ICARe
Taslimarif Saiyed, CCAMP
Richard Alm, CARB-X
Room Singapore
Moderator: Toby Leslie, Fleming Fund
Speakers:
Alexandra Cameron, World Health Organization
Megan Neary, Wellcome Trust
Kristina Osbjer, International Centre for Antimicrobial Resistance Solutions
Victoria Rutter, Commonwealth Pharmacists Association
Room Osaka/Samarkand
Moderator: Remko van Leeuwen, SurvivX
Speakers:
Zhenkun Ma, TenNor Therapeutics
Cédric Govaerts, Santero Therapeutics
Philippe Herman, Immunochem
Alireza Shamaei-tousi, Debiopharm
16:45 – 17:00 | Plenary session | Room Sydney
Moderator: Sina Gerbach, INCATE
Organized by
Prize sponsor
17:00 – 18:00 | Plenary session | Room Sydney
Moderator: Becky McCall, University College London
Speakers:
Kate Grailey, Imperial College London
Francesca Chiara, AMR Narrative
Diane Shader Smith, Global AMR Diary
18:00 – 19:00 | Farewell reception
BEAM Alliance program committee
Deepali Patel
Marc Gitzinger
