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ICAAC 2007 Leadership Summit

Discussion among Nine Infectious Disease Specialists

September 2007

Project Objectives

To discuss the latest research presented at the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (ICAAC) with key opinion leaders in the field of infectious disease.  ICAAC was held in Chicago from September 17-20, 2007.

§    Review drugs being developed against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) including iclalprim, oritavancin, and ceftobiprole

§    Examine current and future use of Cubicin

§    Discuss the future of doripenem

§    Elucidate any controversy surrounding oral faropenem

§    Evaluate the potential of sitafloxacin, a new fluoroquinolone

§    Explore the ketolides –  discuss experience with Ketek and thoughts about cethromycin, the next-generation ketolide in development

§    Review the Rotavirus vaccines – discuss experience with RotaTeq™, and thoughts about Rotarix™, a new vaccine in development

Companies and Products Mentioned in This Report

 

Ticker Symbol

Company

Products

 

Arpida Ltd.

Icalparim (intravenous)

 

Targanta Therapeutics

Oritavancin

JNJ

Johnson & Johnson

Basilea Pharmaceutica Ltd.

Ceftobiprole

CBST

Cubist Pharmaceutical

Cubicin® (daptomycin)

 

Daiichi Pharmaceutical

Sitafloxacin

JNJ

Johnson & Johnson/Ortho-McNeil

Doripenem

RDYN

Replidyne

Faropenem

SNY

Sanofi-Aventis

Ketek® (telithromycin)

ADLS

Advanced Life Sciences

Cethromycin

MRK

Merck

RotaTeqTM

GSK

AVAN

GlaxoSmithKline

Avant Immunotherapeutics

RotarixTM

 

Inclusion Criteria and Respondent Demographics

Nine key opinion leaders in the field of infectious disease that are board certified and have 2 to 30 years of experience post-training.

Hospitals Represented

 

Academic Affiliation

State/Location

Duke University

NC

Federal University of Bahia

Brazil

Columbia University Medical Center/Morgan Stanley Children’s Hospital

NY

Rush University Medical Center

IL

Vanderbilt University

TN

Harvard Vanguard Medical Associates

MA

Virginia Commonwealth University

VA

Albany Medical Center

NY

Mount Sinai School of Medicine

NY

 

 

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