Speaker: Associate Professor Paul A. MacAry, Director, LSI Immunology Programme, Centre for Life Sciences, NUS

Antibodies (magic bullets) are multi-functional glycoproteins that encode hypervariable paratopes that recognise and bind to target motifs (termed epitopes) on target molecules with a high degree of specificity. This activity underlies their wide employment in therapy, research and diagnostics. Antibodies now represent a class of drugs that generate more revenue for the global pharmaceutical industry than any other, and fully one third of new therapies in clinical development are based on this technology. The speaker will present a potted history of antibodies and provide examples from his reserach that illustrate capabilities and opportunities within NUHS for developing new biologic drugs and diagnostics for human disease.

Registration & breakfast at 7.10am, talk begins at 7.40am.