08:00 - 09:00

Cornhill

Registration, Coffee & Networking

09:00 - 09:10

Ludgate

Chair's Opening Comments

Phil Packer – Innovation Lead, AMR & Vaccines, Innovate UK (Confirmed)

09:10 - 09:30

Ludgate

The Global View

Kathelene Weiss – External Relations Senior Manager, GARDP (Confirmed)

09:30 - 09:50

Ludgate

The Challenge of Demonstrating the Value of Infection Diagnostics

A key, often poorly met, hurdle to the deployment / implementation of infection diagnostics is the sub-optimal data on the value of new tests. Practical suggestions of how to address this shortfall will be discussed. 

Prof. Mark Wilcox – National Clinical Director, AMR & IPC, NHS England (Confirmed)

09:50 - 10:10

Ludgate

UKHSA - Our Role

Dr. Dakshika Jeyaratnam — United Kingdom Health Security Agency (Confirmed)

10:10 - 10:30

Ludgate

Questions and Answers

10:30 - 11:10

Cornhill

Morning Coffee & Networking

11:10 - 11:30

Ludgate

The Antimicrobial Pipeline - Who funds what, what funders are looking for and Opportunity

Holger Zimmermann - CEO, INCATE Europe (Confirmed)

11:30 - 11:50

Ludgate

Keeping PACE with AMR - Shaping Pathways from Innovation to Impact

The journey from scientific opportunity to clinical impact requires the right ecosystem, partnerships and support structures. This presentation will explore how needs-led innovation models, including the PACE approach, can help build and accelerate the next generation of diagnostics and therapeutics.

Dr. Bev Isherwood - Programme Director & Medical Discovery Catapult, PACE (Confirmed)

11:50 - 12:10

Ludgate

The AMR Combat Pipeline

Vega Masignani - Alliance Director, Carb-X (Proposed)

12:10 - 12:20

Ludgate

Questions and Answers

12:20 - 12:25

Transition

12:25 - 12:55

Fleet

IP Protection

Speaker to be announced

12:55 - 14:00

Cornhill

Afternoon Lunch & Networking

14:00 - 14:30

Fleet

Assay Development

Speaker to be announced

14:30 - 14:35

Transition

14:35 - 14:55

Ludgate

Diagnostic Implementation

Prof. Victoria Chalker – Deputy Chief Scientific Officer, NHS England (Confirmed)

14:55 - 15:15

Ludgate

The Innovation Landscape for New Diagnostics

Dr. Jayne Ellis - Scientific Lead, BIVDA (Confirmed)

15:15 - 15:25

Ludgate

Questions and Answers

15:15 - 15:55

Cornhill

Afternoon Coffee & Networking

15:55 - 16:15

Ludgate

The Fast-Track for Diagnostics

Melanie Amphlett – Head of Operations, UKHSA Diagnostic Accelerator (Proposed)

16:15 - 16:35

Ludgate

Moving Forward in Infection Diagnostics

Insights elucidated from the Moving Forwards Infection Diagnostics programme, into the barriers and solutions to the infection diagnostics innovation pathway

Dr. Kerrie Davies MBE - Consultant Clinical Scientist and Head of HCAI Research Group Laboratory/Honorary Associate Professor in Diagnostics for Infectious Disease, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust/University of Leeds (Confirmed)

Prof. Jane Freeman - Professor of AMR and Infection/Honorary Clinical Scientist, University of Leeds/Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust (Confirmed)

16:35 - 16:45

Cornhill

Questions and Answers

16:45

Cornhill

Close of Conference