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REVIVE Webinar: Overcoming challenges of tuberculosis drug discovery and development

9 September 2025 - EVENT

BEAM Alliance

Speakers:
– Jeremy Rock, Associate Professor, Rockefeller University (USA) – Dirk Schnappinger, Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Weill Cornell Medical College (USA) – Laura Cleghorn, Reader, Drug Discovery Unit, School of Life Sciences, University of Dundee (UK)

Moderator:
– Valerie Mizrahi, Director, Institute of Infectious Disease and Molecular Medicine, University of Cape Town (South Africa)

Presentation 1: Identifying vulnerable targets and pathways in M. tuberculosis (Jeremy Rock)

Presentation 2: The application of chemical-genetic tools in TB drug discovery (Dirk Schnappinger)

Presentation 3: Opportunities and challenges in TB drug discovery: targeting Pks13 as a case study (Laura Cleghorn)

This live webinar including an interactive Q&A session.

Date and time:
9 September 2025 at 15:30-17:00 CEST.

Dedicated registration linkĀ here

BEAM Alliance