[GlobalHealth] Announcement: Oct 6 TB symposium, register today!

[Daren Wade]

See the attached announcement of the October 6 TB Drug Symposium.

Please join us on Monday October 6, 2008, for a symposium on Tuberculosis Drug Discovery.  This one-day program will bring together international leaders in drug discovery with students, postdocs, and researchers in and around Seattle to stimulate discussion on the hurdles we face in TB drug discovery.  Our program will focus on two areas:  the biological keys to discovering faster therapies, including models of persistence and target identification/validation, and various approaches to early phase drug discovery, including whole cell screens and structure-based design.

The symposium will be held 9:00am-4:30pm at Seattle Biomedical Research Institute, 307 Westlake Ave N, Seattle, WA 98109.

A plenary lecture will be delivered by Professor Douglas Young, Imperial College of London, at Foege Auditorium, Room S040, Genome Sciences Building, University of Washington.

Speakers include:
Tom Alber, UC Berkeley
Clifton Barry III, NIAID, NIH
Gail Cassell, Eli Lilly and Company
Thomas Dick, Novartis Institute for Tropical Diseases
Deborah Hung, Broad Institute
John Overington, BioFocus DPI
Tanya Parish, Infectious Disease Research Institute
Lalita Ramakrishnan, University of Washington
Eric Rubin, Harvard University
James Sacchettini, Texas A&M University
Douglas Young, Imperial College of London

For more information and registration:
http://www.sbri.org/news/tbsymposium.asp

Hurry!  Registration is free but space is limited.

Questions?  Contact:  tbsymposium at sbri.org

This event is sponsored by Eli Lilly and Company and the Washington Global Health Alliance Discovery Series.

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