RETHINK Antibiotics

Key Visual RETHINK Antibiotics

Antibiotics play a pivotal role in medicine and public health. Since the discovery of penicillin, antibiotic agents have transformed medicine and saved millions of lives worldwide. The efficacy of the existing antibiotics therapies is threatened by the emergence of antibiotic resistance, with hundreds of thousands fatalities per year. Only few new antibiotics have been proven effective against multi-resistant bacteria, leading to an alarming situation where some infections have no cure. We are in urgent need of innovative antibiotic treatments. This symposium brings together leading experts from ETH Zurich and other institutions to present advances in the field of antibiotics.

ETH Symposium at the Berlin Science Week 2019
Thursday, 7 November 2019
16.00-17.30

Venue:
Berlin Science Week Campus, Museum für Naturkunde, Tristan Lounge
Invalidenstraße 43, 10115 Berlin

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There is no charge to attend this event, however we kindly request that you reserve your seat in advance external pagehere.

DownloadProgramme (PDF, 296 KB)

Moderation:
external pageShalini Trefzer, Contributing Editor, Diplomatic Courier

Speakers:

Sven Panke (ETH Zurich)
Evolving new antibiotics

Irene Wüthrich (ETH Zurich)
The nanoFleming: Reinventing Antibiotic Discovery from Soil Microbiota

external pagePeter Sander (University of Zurich)
Drug resistance mechanisms in and drug development for tuberculous and non-tuberculous mycobacteria

external pageSilja Wessler (University of Salzburg)
Helicobacter pylori: paradigm for persistent infections as a global challenge

Gisbert Schneider (ETH Zurich)
Designing antimicrobial peptides

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