3rd Annual MarketsandMarkets

Infectious Disease and Molecular Diagnostics Conference

23rd - 24th March 2022

Millennium Gloucester Hotel London Kensington

The Diagnostics sector has emerged as a prominent game changer in healthcare, because of many technological advancements taking place within the field. As diagnostics is a key for making the treatment decisions, it needs to be quicker, précised, and accurate.

MarketsandMarkets is extremely delighted to announce its 3rd Annual Infectious Disease Diagnostics and Molecular Diagnostics Conference scheduled to be held on 23rd - 24th March 2022 in London.

The conference is hand crafted to platform new diagnostics insights, holding discussions on trending technologies along with its latest applications, indicating the challenges in diagnostics area covering, diagnostic setting, sample processing, regulations, validations, high technology cost, challenges involved in blood – transfusion technology, what needs to happen to facilitate better healthcare throughout the world, how vaccines work and their side-effects, challenges associated with test kits, issues with accuracy & the results

This event will witness an overwhelming participation of leading healthcare and industry decision makers who are amplifying the future and counted as some of the best minds on the planet

WHAT TO EXPECT

  • Prenatal Molecular Diagnostics
  • Molecular Diagnostic Techniques for Medical Viruses
  • Addressing challenges of molecular diagnostics through Laboratory Information System (LIS)
  • A systematic approach to novel virus through infectious disease diagnostics • Advances in at-home and point-of-use testing: covid and beyond
  • Portable point-of-care testing systems and increasing global access to care
  • Recent advances in lab-on-a-chip technologies for viral diagnosis
  • Disease wise Diagnostics - Different types of samples with different methods for diagnostics
  • Point of Care Testing and Recommendations for Future Emerging Outbreaks: Advocacy, Education and Clinical Practice
  • Advances in testing and multiplexing
  • Multiplex Blood-Borne Pathogen Detection
  • The impact of the covid-19 pandemic on diagnostic innovation for infectious disease

Hospitals/Universities/Labs

  • Hospitals - Department of infectious diseases. Department of hematology, Department of Genomics, Diagnostics Department, Molecular Biology, Molecular Genetics
  • Hospital Designations - Senior scientist, scientist, Microbiologist, biologists, pathologist, General
  • Practitioners, Lab managers, Lab directors, medical directors, POCT coordinators

  • Universities Designations- Professors, Researchers, Associate professors, Deans, Senior Professors

  • Hospital Laboratories Designations- Pathologists, Lab managers, Lab Directors, Clinicians

  • Learn about innovative devices and procedures for effective diagnostics
  • Meet global heads of infectious disease and molecular diagnostics from the industry and Academics
  • 120+ professionals attending
  • Case studies presented from leading technology collaborations
  • Interactive panel discussions

CONFERENCE AGENDA

Registration

08:15 - 08:55

Welcome note from MarketsandMarkets

08:55 - 09:00

Opening Remarks from the Chairman

Sanjib Bhakta

Sanjib Bhakta, Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Biochemistry, Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck, University of London and UCL

09:00 - 09:10

Keynote Presentation: Integrative interdisciplinary approaches in tackling extensively drug resistance in tuberculosis (TB) on World TB Day

Sanjib Bhakta

Sanjib Bhakta, Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Biochemistry, Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck, University of London and UCL

09:10 - 09:40

IMPLEMENTATION AND INTERPRETATION OF ADVANCED MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS

The Future of Clinical Microbiology” from a Molecular Diagnostic Perspective.

Willem Melchers

Willem Melchers, Lecturer in Medical Microbiology, American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, UK Track, University of Central Lancashire

09:40 - 10:10

The role for Next generation sequencing in Routine Clinical Microbiology

Eric Claas

Eric Claas, Molecular Medical Microbiologist, Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Centre

10:10 - 10:40

Morning Refreshments and Poster Presentation | One-to-One Networking Meetings

10:40 - 11:30

Redefining molecular technology with the innovative qSTAR

Susan Ward

Susan Ward, Director of Channel Marketing, LumiraDx UK Ltd

11:30 - 12:00

The opening of a new era: How to find the unknown - NGS for infectious diseases

Vanya Gant

Vanya Gant , Consultant in Microbiology, and Infection/Director, HSL Laboratories, UCL

12:00 - 12:30

Reimagining Diagnosis of Infection: Utilizing Optical Molecular SmartProbes from the Lung to the Cornea

 Beth Mills

Beth Mills, UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, Translational Healthcare Technologies group, The University of Edinburgh

12:30 - 13:00

Lunch and Poster Presentation | One-to-One Networking Meetings

13:00 - 14:00

Co-Diagnostics New Your Test PCR Platform

Dwight H. Egan

Dwight H. Egan, Chief Executive Officer, Co-Diagnostics, Inc

14:00 - 14:30

MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTIC TECHNIQUES FOR MEDICAL VIRUSES

Diagnostics for Improved Antibiotic Stewardship

Peter Munthali

Peter Munthali , Consultant- Bacteriology · Microbiology, University Hospital Coventry

14:30 - 15:00

Afternoon Refreshments and Poster Presentation | One-to-One Networking Meetings

15:00 - 15:50

PRIORITIZING CHALLENGES IN MOLECULAR DIAGNOSTICS AREA

Addressing challenges of molecular diagnostics through Laboratory Information System (LIS)

Reshma Kadave

Reshma Kadave, Biomedical Scientist & Senior IT Analyst, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, UK

15:50 - 16:20

The use of the Molecular Bacterial Load assay as a preclinical tool to accelerate TB drug discovery

Dimitrios Evangelopoulos

Dimitrios Evangelopoulos, Lecturer in Microbiology, UCL Eastman Dental Institute, London

16:20 - 16:50

Breakout Session by chairman

16:50 - 17:20

Closing Remarks from the Chairman

17:20 - 17:20

Drinks Reception & Networking End of Day 1

17:50 - 17:50

Registration

08:15 - 08:55

Welcome note from MarketsandMarkets

08:55 - 09:00

Opening remarks from the Chairman

Vanya Gant

Vanya Gant , Consultant in Microbiology, and Infection/Director, HSL Laboratories, UCL

09:00 - 09:10

Keynote Presentation-Next generation hematology analyzers for detection or management infectious diseases.

Andre Van Der Ven

Andre Van Der Ven, Department of Internal Medicine, Radboud Center for Infectious Diseases, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen

09:10 - 09:40

TAILORING MODEL’S AND ADVANCEMENTS UNDER INFECTIOUS DISEASE DIAGNOSTICS POINT OF CARE TESTING

miDiagnostics brings Ultra-fast PCR through innovative chip technologies at the point of need

Tom Willshare

Tom Willshare, VP Product Development, miDiagnostics

09:40 - 10:10

Microfluidics for Sample Processing in Infectious Disease Detection and details on Cryptosporidium & TB & Legionella

Helen Bridle

Helen Bridle, Associate Professor, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Biophysics and Bioengineering, Heriot-Watt Research

10:10 - 10:40

Morning Refreshments and Poster Presentation | One-to-One Networking Meetings

10:40 - 11:30

Multiplex Assays for SARS-COV-2 and Variant

Richard Hale

Richard Hale, Biochemist & Molecular Biologist, AusDiagnostics

11:30 - 12:30

SHAPING THE POINT OF CARE ERA WITH BEST TOOLS AND METHODOLOGIES

Diversity of detection of antibody to SARS CoV, what Ebola taught me

Richard Tedder

Richard Tedder, Honorary Consultant Virologist, Dept of Clinical Microbiology, Kings College Hospital London

12:30 - 13:00

Lunch and Poster Presentation | One-to-One Networking Meetings

13:00 - 14:00

Fungal Infections in Patients with Covid

Paul Verweij

Paul Verweij, Consultant microbiologist and professor of Clinical Mycology, Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, The Netherlands

14:00 - 14:30

Decentralized Science (DeSci) – A Marketplace for Crowdsourcing and Sharing of Quality Research Outcomes through Blockchain

Jens Ducree

Jens Ducree, Professor of Microsystems in the School of Physical Sciences, Dublin City University (DCU)

14:30 - 15:00

New microbiology diagnostics in the era of consolidation

Giovanni Satta

Giovanni Satta, Infection Control Doctor/Consultant in Infection, University College London Hospitals

15:00 - 15:30

Closing Remarks from the Chairman End of Conference

15:30 - 16:00

CONFERENCE SPEAKERS

ADVISORS

 Soumini Vasan

Soumini Vasan

Laboratory Director, Oxsed

Alice Street

Alice Street

Senior Lecturer in Medical Anthropology and Principal Investigator of the EU funded DiaDev project (investigating diagnostic devices in global health), University of Edinburgh

Helen Bridle

Helen Bridle

Associate Professor, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Biophysics and Bioengineering, Heriot-Watt Research

SPEAKERS

Blessing Anonye

Blessing Anonye

Senior Lecturer, University of Central Lancashire Preston, UK

Tom Willshare

Tom Willshare

VP Product Development, miDiagnostics

Susan Ward

Susan Ward

Director of Channel Marketing, LumiraDx UK Ltd

Richard Tedder

Richard Tedder

Honorary Consultant Virologist, Dept of Clinical Microbiology, Kings College Hospital London

Richard Hale

Richard Hale

Biochemist & Molecular Biologist, AusDiagnostics

Dimitrios Evangelopoulos

Dimitrios Evangelopoulos

Lecturer in Microbiology, UCL Eastman Dental Institute, London

 Beth Mills

Beth Mills

UKRI Future Leaders Fellow, Translational Healthcare Technologies group, The University of Edinburgh

Paul Verweij

Paul Verweij

Consultant microbiologist and professor of Clinical Mycology, Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen, The Netherlands

Giovanni Satta

Giovanni Satta

Infection Control Doctor/Consultant in Infection, University College London Hospitals

Jens Ducree

Jens Ducree

Professor of Microsystems in the School of Physical Sciences, Dublin City University (DCU)

Andre Van Der Ven

Andre Van Der Ven

Department of Internal Medicine, Radboud Center for Infectious Diseases, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen

Peter Munthali

Peter Munthali

Consultant- Bacteriology · Microbiology, University Hospital Coventry

Vanya Gant

Vanya Gant

Consultant in Microbiology, and Infection/Director, HSL Laboratories, UCL

Willem Melchers

Willem Melchers

Lecturer in Medical Microbiology, American University of the Caribbean School of Medicine, UK Track, University of Central Lancashire

Helen Bridle

Helen Bridle

Associate Professor, Institute of Biological Chemistry, Biophysics and Bioengineering, Heriot-Watt Research

Sanjib Bhakta

Sanjib Bhakta

Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Biochemistry, Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck, University of London and UCL

Eric Claas

Eric Claas

Molecular Medical Microbiologist, Department of Medical Microbiology, Leiden University Medical Centre

Reshma Kadave

Reshma Kadave

Biomedical Scientist & Senior IT Analyst, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, UK

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