Symposium Information
November 6-8, 2018
The Rockefeller University
Carson Auditorium
1230 York Avenue, New York, NY 10065
Event Organizers
Dr. Vincent Fischetti
Professor and Head
Laboratory of Bacterial Pathogenesis
and Immunology
Rockefeller University
Dr. Raymond Schuch
Vice President of Research,
ContraFect Corporation, USA
Post-Antibiotic Effects of Lysin CF-301 Against Staphylococcus aureus
Dr. Daniel Nelson
Associate Professor
Head, Laboratory of Antimicrobial Discovery,
Institute for Bioscience and Biotechnology Research
University of Maryland
Immunotherapeutics Derived from Bacteriophage Endolysins
Topics, Agenda and Keynote Speakers
1. Gram-Positive Lysins as Therapeutics
2. Engineering Lysins
3. Gram-Negative Lysins
4. Diagnostics
5. Exploiting Lysins for Other Applications
6. The Pathway from Bench to Bedside
Each session will also include additional speakers selected from submitted abstracts.
Keynote Speakers
scheduled so far
Joana Azeredo
Associate Professor, Department of Biological Engineering, University of Minho
Martin J. Blaser, M.D.
Professor of Microbiology, and Director of the Human Microbiome Program at the NYU School of Medicine
Dr. Yves Briers
Assistant Professor, Centre of Synthetic Biology, Ghent University (Belgium)
Dr. Andrés J. García
Executive Director, Parker H. Petit Institute for Bioengineering and Bioscience
Dr. Steven Projan
