The University of Ghana and Wellcome Centre for Anti-Infectives Research (University of Dundee)invite you to join us at the University of Ghana from 12-14th March 2025. Our aim is showcase African led drug discovery research against endemic infectious diseases. The conference will bring together leading drug discovery researchers from across Africa and those from Industry and Product Partner Development organisations working alongside them. The conference aims to strengthen existing networks, generate new collaborations and share knowledge.

Topics to be discussed include:

• Clinical trials and field studies

• Drug targets and target validation

• Medicinal and computational drug discovery

• DMPK and Toxicology


• African drug discovery Networks

Confirmed Speakers include:

• Linda Amoah, NMIMR, University of Ghana, Ghana


• Lyn-Marie Birkholtz, University of Pretoria, South Africa


• Rob Bates, GSK


• Steve Brand, MMV


• Arnab Chatterjee, Calibr-Skaggs Institute for Innovative Medicines, USA


• Laura Cleghorn, DDU, University of Dundee, UK


• Beverly Egyir, NMIMR, University of Ghana, Ghana


• Edmund Ekuadzi, KNUST, Ghana


• Jason Hlozek, H3D, South Africa


• Marcus Lee, University of Dundee, UK


• Adriaan Kruger, NuvteQ


• Ujjini Manjuantha, Novartis GH


• Collen Masimirembwa, AiBST


• Charles Mowbray, DNDi


• Fidele Ntie-Kang, University of Buea, Cameroon


• Dinkorma T. Ouologuem, USTTB, Mali


• Devasha Redhi, H3D, South Africa


• Janine Scholefield, CSIR, South Africa


• Thomas Spangenberg, Merck KGaA


• Eric Strauss, Stellenbosch University, South Africa


• Roslyn Thelingwani, AiBST, Zimbabwe


• Susan Wyllie, University of Dundee, UK

Please visit the conference website for further information, https://wcair.dundee.ac.uk/drug-discovery-africa-12-14th-march-2025/

You can contact the organisers : Drug-Discovery-Africa-2025@dundee.ac.uk