Program

Koen Andries DVM PhD After studying Veterinary Sciences and obtaining his PhD at the University of Ghent, Dr. Andries joined the team of Dr. Paul Janssen in Janssen Pharmaceutica (Johnson and Johnson) in 1982. Using whole cell assays in search of antiviral compounds, his team discovered nanomolar uncoating inhibitors of rhinoviruses (R77975 - pirodavir), fusion inhibitors ...

Dr. George Drusano MD received his medical training at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, graduating cum laude. He served as Chief Resident at the University of Maryland Hospital and entered the Faculty after completing a Fellowship in Infectious Diseases. He is Co-Director of the Ordway Research Institute in Albany, NY, Director of Clinical Pharmacology Studies, Albany Medical College. Dr. Drusano is a Past-President of the International Society for Anti-infective Pharmacology. ...

Tawanda Gumbo MD, was born in Zimbabwe, and attended the University of Zimbabwe Medical School. Residency (Internal Medicine/International Health Track) and Fellowship (Infectious Diseases) were at Case Western Reserve University (MetroHealth) and the Cleveland Clinic Foundation from 1993-1999. In 2000 he joined the Albany Medical College, and later the Ordway Research Institute in Albany, New York, where he worked to establish the hollow fiber model of tuberculosis in the laboratory of George Drusano, MD., ...

Saye Khoo MDis a Reader in Pharmacology at the University of Liverpool and Honorary Consultant Physician in Infectious Diseases. Research interests centre on the pharmacology of HIV treatment failure. This includes the role of therapeutic drug monitoring, population pharmacokinetic modelling, investigation of drug interactions, molecular characterisation of drug metabolism ...