Ramesh Agarwal works as a Professor of Paediatrics, leads the Newborn Division and WHO-CC at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India. He is engaged in establishing a program on Neonatal Sepsis involving institutions and scientists of diverse background in India and beyond. The program so far has produced research outputs that have added meaningful value to our understanding. He has a keen interest in healthcare technology innovation and supports and mentors many groups that makes healthcare

Jeffrey L. Ambroso is a board-certified toxicologist with 21 years of experience in nonclinical safety evaluation of drugs and biotechnology products, in both public and private sectors. At RTI International, Jeffrey works closely with both the TB Alliance and CARB-X to develop novel therapies to treat bacterial pathogens. He has served as the preclinical safety representative on multiple project teams developing drugs for a variety of indications.

Antoine Andremont is currently Emeritus Professor at the Paris Diderot University Medical School, France, a scientific advisor at the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation, and serves as an expert witness for the French National Highest Judiciary Court (Cour de Cassation). He is also the co-founder and a senior scientific advisor at biotechnology company Da Volterra - which he created in 2000 to research and understand the impact of antibiotics on the intestinal flora microbiota, the development and

John van den Anker is a renowned paediatric consultant based at the Children’s National Medical Center Washington, DC, whose research has resulted in a much more evidence-based use of antibacterial agents such as aminoglycosides, cephalosporins, penicillins, meropenem, and vancomycin in children. John holds many titles including, the Evan and Cindy Jones Endowed Professor of Paediatric Clinical Pharmacology at Children’s National Medical Center; the Eckenstein-Geigy Distinguished Professor in Paediatric Pharmacology and Pharmacometrics at the University of Basel Children’s Hospital in Switzerland,

Carl Balibar is a Principal Scientist in the department of Infectious Disease and Vaccines at Merck & Co. which he joined in 2012. He is an expert in antibiotic mechanism of action and antibacterial drug discovery. He is specifically responsible for efforts ranging from early discovery and target validation through clinical development utilizing various modalities in support of anti-infective drug discovery. Carl has written more than 30 papers and book chapters and participated in the discovery and development of the

Peter Beyer is a trained lawyer and Senior Advisor at the World Health Organization (WHO) where he leads a team working on global initiatives on antimicrobial resistance. He focuses on developing global instruments to combat antimicrobial resistance and to foster the development of new antimicrobial treatments. Peter was involved in establishing the Global Antibiotic R&D Partnership (GARDP) as a WHO and DNDi joint initiative as well as the trilateral collaboration among the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the World Trade

Jessica Blair currently holds a Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) David Phillips Fellowship and is a lecturer in Antimicrobial Resistance at the Institute of Microbiology and Infection at the University of Birmingham UK. She is an expert in the molecular mechanisms of antibiotic resistance and specifically bacterial efflux pumps. Her team at the University of Birmingham are predominantly interested in how efflux contributes to antibiotic resistance and how the expression of efflux pumps are regulated as well as

Mark Brönstrup has been head of the Department of Chemical Biology at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research and since 2013 he has also held a Professorship at the Leibniz Universität Hannover. After his graduation, he worked as a laboratory head for Mass Spectrometry at Aventis. This was complemented by a research sabbatical in 2003 at Harvard Medical School. He then led the Natural Product Sciences section at Sanofi-Aventis in Frankfurt with the goal of discovering leads from natural sources

Marco Cavaleri is the head of the office of biological health threats and vaccines strategy at the European Medicines Agency (EMA). He is the Chair of the EMA COVID-19 Taskforce and responsible for EMA activities for emergent pathogens, vaccines and AMR. Marco is a pharmacologist who has spent several years in the industry within research and development mainly in the area of anti-infectives covering different positions in preclinical and clinical development. In 2005 he joined the EMA as scientific administrator

James (Jim) Collins is the Termeer Professor of Medical Engineering & Science and Professor of Biological Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), as well as a member of the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences & Technology Faculty. He is a core founding faculty member of the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University, and an Institute Member of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard. Being one of the founders of the field of synthetic biology, his research

Lloyd Czaplewski is Chief Scientific Officer for Persica Pharmaceuticals Limited and a Director of Chemical Biology Ventures where he provides life and chemical sciences consultancy services. Previously, Lloyd has served as an R&D executive for Biota, Prolysis, and British Biotech Pharmaceuticals. In his scientific career so far, he has led the creation and clinical evaluation of an engineered cytokine, discovery of the potential for minimal lentiviral vectors in antigen presentation, and demonstrating ability to create and lead structure-informed screening. He

Shampa Das is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Liverpool and a Pharmacokinetics and Pharmacodynamics (PK/PD) consultant. Following 17 years within the pharmaceutical industry, Shampa has extensive expertise in using PK/PD for developing Clinical Pharmacology and dose strategies to support the clinical development and regulatory approval of new anti-infective drugs. Shampa is a senior leader within the Antimicrobial Pharmacodynamics and Therapeutics group which supports biotechnological and pharmaceutical companies to develop new antimicrobial agents by developing the critical Pharmacokinetics and

David Denning is an infectious diseases clinician with expertise in fungal diseases. He has been a Professor of Infectious Diseases and Global Health at the University of Manchester since 2005. From 2009 to 2020, David led the National Aspergillosis Centre, Manchester, a referral centre in the UK for all patients with chronic pulmonary aspergillosis. His current academic interests are chronic and allergic pulmonary fungal disease, the global burden of fungal infection, resistance in Aspergillus and getting new antifungals developed. He

Harpal Dhillon is a pharmacist, founder of AntiBx and a Global Medical Value consultant. Harpal has amassed over 15 years of experience working across healthcare, public health, academia and the pharmaceutical industry in a variety of roles within infectious diseases. He has specialized in developing innovative strategies and initiatives to optimize antibiotic prescribing. This has included the launch of TARGET antibiotics in the UK and the execution of an EU-wide compassionate use programme for an antibiotic. His experience led to

Thomas Dougherty is a Senior Scientist in the laboratory in Professor Steve Lory in the Department of Microbiology at Harvard Medical School. Here, he researches compounds that inhibit the lipoprotein pathway in the periplasm, to pharmacologically compromise the outer membrane integrity of Gram-negative bacteria. Thomas spent 8 years at the Rockefeller University in Alexander Tomasz’s laboratory, 3 as a postdoctoral fellow and 5 as an assistant professor. He worked on studies funded by the United States, National Institute of Health

Cecilia joined the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) as AMR Medical Officer in 2018. Here, she supports projects addressing gaps in the availability and use of diagnostic tests for antimicrobial resistance in order to better guide the appropriate use of treatments. Prior to joining FIND, Cecilia worked at Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) for 14 years in several countries such as China, Somalia, South Sudan and Uganda. In this role, she implemented HIV and tuberculosis (TB) activities in conflict affected

Lena Friberg is Professor of Pharmacometrics at the Faculty of Pharmacy at Uppsala University, Sweden, a position she has held since 2014. Lena obtained her PhD degree in Pharmacokinetics and Drug Therapy in 2003 and spent nearly two years as a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Queensland in Australia. She has published over 125 original articles and nearly 15 reviews and book chapters in the area and has an H-index over 40. Her research is focused on advancing pharmacometric

Brigitte Happ is an independent consultant of regulatory affairs. She has more than 25 years of extensive experience in global regulatory affairs for biotechnological and pharmaceutical companies and as an Independent Consultant. Her expertise covers a broad range of therapeutic areas such as metabolic endocrinology, dermatology, oncology, therapeutic vaccines and urology as well as autoimmune and inflammatory diseases. Brigitte has a strong scientific background being able to bridge the gap between research and development. As the founder of Happ consulting,

Stephan Harbarth is a full professor at the University of Geneva, Switzerland. A position he has held since 2018 and he is board certified in infectious diseases. After serving as a clinical fellow in the Infectious Diseases Division in the Department of Internal Medicine at Geneva University Hospitals, Stephan completed his master’s degree in epidemiology at Harvard University in Boston, USA. Stephan's work has garnered several awards. His group is currently conducting several clinical and epidemiological studies to evaluate key

Paul J. Hergenrother is the Kenneth L. Rinehart Endowed Chair in Natural Products Chemistry at The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He established his own laboratory in 2001 which seeks to understand compound accumulation in Gram-negative bacteria to then use this information to create novel antibiotics. Paul is the co-founder and Chief Scientific Officer of Vanquish Oncology, and an anticancer compound discovered by his lab is now being used in multiple clinical trials. Paul has received numerous awards including the

Edward W. Hook III is an Emeritus Professor of Medicine at the University of Alabama at Birmingham (USA) with expertise in infectious diseases, microbiology and epidemiology. In his role as a clinical investigator with a focus on sexually transmitted infections, Edward has led and participated in clinical trials of new antimicrobials, vaccines, and diagnostic tests as well as conducting epidemiologic research on a variety of topics. He has consulted with the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Centers for Disease

Yanmin Hu is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute for Infection and Immunity in St George’s University of London. Yanmin’s major research interests include new drugs for tuberculosis and other important infectious diseases as well as improved chemotherapy to eradicate persistent bacteria. She also studies molecular approaches to understand the processes of infection and pathogenesis of tuberculosis, the discovery of novel antibiotics and drug combination against antibiotic-resistant bacteria. Yanmin is also Research Director at Helperby Therapeutics, a UK based antibiotic

Diarmaid Hughes is Professor of Medical Molecular Bacteriology at Uppsala University, Sweden. He has been working actively within the Innovative Medicines Initiative (IMI), New Drugs for Bad Bugs (ND4BB), ENABLE Project since its beginning in February 2014. ENABLE is a public-private partnership involving collaboration between more than 40 partners including several European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries and Associations (EFPIA) companies, multiple small and medium-sized enterprises, research institutes, academic hospitals and universities spread throughout Europe. ENABLE’s remit is to develop promising

Anders Karlén is a professor of Computer-Aided Drug Design at Uppsala University and focuses on hit identification and lead development in antibacterial drug discovery. His research group studies targets of importance in infectious diseases with a focus on tuberculosis and Gram-negative infections. At Uppsala University, he is the overall medicinal chemistry project leader for drug discovery efforts directed at several different anti-bacterial targets. Since February 2014, Anders has led the Managing Entity as well as been co-coordinator of the project

Cassandra Kelly-Cirino is Director of Emerging Threats at the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND). She joined this organization in 2017 with over 20 years of experience working in Canadian and US public health and private sector settings. Most recently, Cassandra was responsible for multiple initiatives to bring simple collection and stabilization solutions to the global public health and outbreak response fields at DNA Genotek. She has supported the development of public health policy for infectious diseases with a focus

Kevin Krause is Vice President of Clinical Sciences and Development at AN2 Therapeutics, a company he joined in November 2019. Here, he focuses on the development of treatments for infectious diseases with a high unmet need. Before joining AN2 Therapeutics, Kevin was part of the senior leadership team at Achaogen. During his time there, Kevin led plazomicin out-licensing efforts for key regions. He also played an instrumental role in the phase 3 development programme, regulatory defense and launch of this

Ramanan Laxminarayan is founder and director of the Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy (CDDEP) and a senior research scholar at Princeton University. He is an affiliate professor at the University of Washington and a visiting professor at the University of Strathclyde in Scotland as well as the University of Kwazulu Natal in South Africa. He also chairs the boards of GARDP and HealthCubed. Since 1995, Ramanan has worked to improve the understanding of antibiotic resistance as a problem

Richard E. Lee is Member and Endowed Chair in Medicinal Chemistry at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital. He previously held a research scientist position in the intramural program of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health (USA). He has also held a tenure-track position at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center, USA in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Department, where he moved up the ranks to full professor. In August 2009, he moved his research program

Alexander Lepak is an Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin in the Department of Medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases. He is an active physician, educator and researcher. Alexander directs antimicrobial stewardship quality improvement initiatives and research projects. His main research pursuits are in performing and translating antimicrobial pharmacodynamic (PD) studies (both in vivo animal models and patient-level data) to optimize therapy against numerous pathogens. This research has specifically included medically important fungal and bacterial pathogens, including those that are