2024
TEDxGVAGrad
20 April 2024 | Geneva, Switzerland
Sabine Specht, DNDi, TEDxTalk ‘The sight-stealing worm: Searching for a cure for river blindness’
British Society for Parasitology Spring Meeting
2-5 April 2024 | Liverpool, UK
Sabine Specht, DNDi, keynote presentation ‘Development of alternative treatments for filarial diseases’
Workshop on integrating science and journalism
20-22 February 2024 | Bagamoyo, Tanzania
Training workshop for journalists and scientists in Tanzania hosted at the Ifakara Health Institute by HELP
Speakers: Honorati Masanja, Ifakara Health Institute, Jürg Utzinger, Swiss TPH, Jennifer Keiser, Swiss TPH, Said Jongo, Ifakara Health Institute, Sabine Specht, DNDi, Linet Atieno Otieno, DNDi
2023
ECTMIH 2023
20-23 November 2023 | Utrecht, Netherlands
Symposium on ‘Research and development on novel drugs for nematode infections: insight from academia and product development partnerships working together in the EU-funded HELP project’
Speakers: Sabine Specht, DNDi, Marc Hübner, IMMIP, Said A. Jongo, Ifakara Health Institute, Jennifer Keiser, Swiss TPH
Molecular Helminthology
26-29 June 2023 | Madison, USA
Sabine Specht (DNDi) presentation ‘New anthelmintic chemical entities: considerations for development and access’ at session on ‘Therapeutics and drug resistance’
KIT Tagung
15 June 2023 | Leipzig, Germany
Marc Hübner, IMMIP. Presentation ‘Jahre Forschung zur Filarientherapie: Von vielversprechenden Wirkstoffen zu neuen Medikamenten’
DKVB Jahrestagung
30 May 2023 | Bonn, Germany
Marc Hübner, IMMIP. Presentation ‘Entwicklung neuer Therapien für die Onchozerkose und Loiasis’
DZIF Jahrestagung
15 April 2023 | Hanover, Germany
Marc Hübner, IMMIP. Presentation ‘The immune system contributes to treatment efficacy of the anthelmintic benzimidazole oxfendazole’
2022
Universitas Syiah Kuala
16 December 2022 | Online
Marc Hübner, IMMIP, presented on ‘Current Perspectives for New Treatments for Human Filarial Infections’
ASTMH 2022
30 October – 3 November 2022 | Seattle, USA
Marc Hübner, IMMIP, presented on ‘The benzimidazoles oxfendazole and flubendazole eliminate adult filariae of Litomosoides sigmodontis in an immune system-dependent manner’
H3-D Symposium
25-28 October 2022 | Cape Town, South Africa
Keynote speaker: Jennifer Keiser, Swiss TPH
PEG – Sektion „Antiparasitäre Therapie“
5 October 2022 | Online
Marc Hübner, IMMIP, presented on ‘Entwicklung von Oxfendazol zur Behandlung humaner Filariosen’
Hydra Conference Parasitic Helminths
28 August – 2 September 2022 | Hydra, Greece
Keynote speaker: Jennifer Keiser, Swiss TPH
ICOPA 2022
21-26 August | Copenhagen, Denmark
Speaker: Jennifer Keiser, Swiss TPH
DDDS Meeting
13 July 2022 | Oberschleißheim, Germany
Marc Hübner, IMMIP, presented on ‘Identification of new treatments for filarial infections’
22nd Drug Design & Development Seminar (DDDS) 2022 of the German Society for Parasitology (DGP)
12-15 July 2022 | Munich, Germany
Organized by University of Bern, DNDi, and LMU Munich
Sabine Specht, DNDi, is part of the Scientific Committee
Marc Hübner (IMMIP) presented results from HELP experiments: ‘Identification of new treatments for filarial infections’
Conference on Tropical Medicine and Global Health (CTM 2022)
23-25 June 2022 | Rostock, Germany
Session on ‘Parasitology’ including speakers Achim Hörauf, IMMIP, Uni Bonn, Sabine Specht, DNDi
Marc Hübner (IMMIP) presentation ‘Die BEnzimidazole Oxfendazol und Flubendazol eliminieren Adultwürmer von Litomosoides sigmodontis in Abhängigkeit vom Immunsystem’
DZIF meeting
2 June 2022 | Stuttgart, Germany
Marc Hübner (IMMIP) presentation ‘Update on the development of novel anthelminthics and novel models for preclinical testing’ (including results from HELP)
40. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Tropenpädiatrie und Internationale Kindergesundheit
27-29 May 2022 | Basel, Switzerland
Jennifer Keiser, Swiss TPH. Presentation ‘Innovative drugs in helminth infection suitable for the paediatric population’ in the session ‘Paediatric dermatology meets paediatric infectious diseases’
Anti-helminthics: Drugs, Resistance & Vaccines
10-12 May 2022 | University of Massachusetts Medical School, USA
Sabine Specht, DNDi, is part of the Scientific Committee
Keynote speaker: Jennifer Keiser, Swiss TPH
2021
70th ASTMH Annual Meeting
17-21 November 2021
Symposium on ‘Clinical development of new treatments to support the global elimination of onchocerciasis’
Speakers: Achim Hörauf, IMMIP, Uni Bonn, Sabine Specht, DNDi
Poster: ‘Replacement of missing values for one-time-measurement outcomes in onchocerciasis clinical trials’
DZIF TTU NAB meeting
20 April 2021
Marc Hübner (IMMIP) presented on ‘Translational Microbiology’ in a session chaired by Achim Hörauf (IMMIP, Uni Bonn)
Leiden University Medical Center
12 April 2021 | Leiden, The Netherlands
Marc Hübner (IMMIP) presented on ‘Development of alternative treatments for onchocerciasis’
29th Annual Meeting of the German Society for Parasitology
15–17 March 2021 | Virtual
‘Anti-Helmintic Drug Development’ session with HELP partners part of the keynote.
Speakers: Jennifer Keiser, Swiss TPH, Sabine Specht, DNDi, and Marc Hübner, IMMIP
British Society of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
2 February 2021 | Virtual
Achim Hörauf, IMMIP, Uni Bonn. Presentation ‘Pre-clinical development of Corallopyronin A – a novel natural product active against helminths, STIs and Staphylococci’ in the session ‘Pre-clinical antimicrobial development’
2020
69th ASTMH Annual Meeting
15-19 November 2020 | Toronto, Canada, virtual
World Health Summit
26 October 2020
Annual Symposium organized by the German Alliance for Global Health Research Session on ‘Multi-Stakeholder Collaboration in Global Health – Science Meets Implementation’ with presentation from Achim Hörauf, IMMIP, Uni Bonn
4th AMR Conference Novel Antimicrobials & AMR Diagnostics
28 August 2020 | Virtual
Poster: ‘Pre-clinical development of the natural compound antibiotic Corallopyronin A’
Anthelmintics IV: Discovery to Resistance
3 February 2020 | Santa Monica, California, USA
Jennifer Keiser, Swiss TPH Presentation: ‘Drug combinations for soil-transmitted helminthiases’
2019
Keystone Symposia Global Health
8-12 December 2019 | Cape Town, South Africa
Session on ‘Helminth control: Drug development’:
Jennifer Keiser, Swiss TPH. Presentation: ‘Improved treatments for soil-transmitted helminthiases’
Sabine Specht, DNDi. Presentation: ‘Development of alternative treatments against filarial diseases’
68th ASTMH Annual Meeting
20-24 November 2019 | National Harbor, MD USA
Session on ‘New tools to accelerate elimination of onchocerciasis’:
Sabine Specht, DNDi. Presentation: ‘Macrofilaricidal drug development – onwards and upwards’
Institut Pasteur Symposium: The Future of Parasitology
18 November 2019 | Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Jennifer Keiser, Swiss TPH. Presentation ‘Improved treatments for soil-transmitted helminthiases’