Workshop 1: Global diagnostic tools development for tropical disease

 

Registration fee: 1,500 THB


Tropical Medicine Diagnostic Development Center (TropMed DC):

Tropical Medicine Diagnostic Development Center (TropMed DC) is the newly initiated unit in collaboration between FTM (Faculty of Tropical Medicine) and MORU (Mahidol Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit). Given high interest in diagnostic projects of over 40% of translational research applications, TropMed DC aims to become a one-stop service that offer full ecosystem support for diagnostic tools development. For the past year, TropMed DC has created infrastructure and offers various support such as consultation on business development, intellectual property, and regulatory approval, network partnership building, technical support such as accessing shared equipment, validation, samples, scaling up, and finally, a small starting fund to kickstart the project.

Why we are hosting this:

We want to create a network of complete ecosystem between researcher, medical doctor, private sector, NGO, and government, which would allow opportunity for more knowledge sharing, project collaboration, development of policy and support pathway for diagnostic tools development. We also want to take this opportunity to introduce and show case TropMed DC what we offer and who we are.

Expected output:

In this event we want our audience from different sector to become aware of TropMed DC existence and its capacity in supporting the diagnostic tools development. We want the network of stakeholder in diagnostic tools development to create network centering around the TropMed DC and form a collaboration hub here in Bangkok. With this, we wanted to create opportunity for a project collaboration to be form between different stakeholder and ideally create tangible project proposal from this pre-meeting event.

Agenda

Lab visit:

Exclusive Lab Tour : Discover the Future of Diagnostics

(3 group, 10 person/1 group)

Group 1. Extraction Insights activity (30 minutes)

Group 2. High sensitivity detection-QIAcuity Digital PCR activity (30 minutes)

Group 3. Ultra-fast of Automated PCR activity (30 minutes)

Time

Topic

Speaker

9.00 - 9.30 am

Registration

N/A

9.30 - 9.45 am

Workshop objective

Prof. Jetsumon Prachumsri

9.45 - 10.30 am

Global diagnostic collaboration: Accelerating Diagnostic Access Project 2

Rosanna Peeling

10.30 - 10.45 am

 

break

 

10.45 - 11.30 am

 

Diagnostic tools in Primary care: importance of evaluations in the field

Philip Turner

 

11.30 - 12.15 am

 

Local Manufacturing of accessible diagnostics

Cheikh Tidiane DIAGNE

12.15 - 13.45 pm

Networking lunch

 

13.45 – 15.00 pm

(20 mins each)

(15 mins Q&A)

Private perspective: Lab to market

Private perspective: lab to Market

Qiagen

Etana biotech

Fapon biotech

15.15 - 17.00 pm  A

Meet the expert speakers

Rosanna Peeling

Philip Turner

Cheikh Tidiane DIAGNE

15.15 - 17.00 pm  B

Lab visit

Qiagen

17.00 - 18.00 pm 

Networking cocktail session