Thematic Workshop Health – Infectious diseases
Chairs: George A. Kosmiadi, Moscow; Timo Ulrichs, Berlin

Introduction
Part 1: International institutions for furthering research in infectious disease control
Dr. Timo Ulrichs, Vice-President Koch-Metchnikov-Forum, Berlin: “The Koch-Metchnikov-Forum, an Initiative of the Petersburg Dialogue”
Dr. Tatjana Gremyakova, International Science and Technology Center, Moscow: “ISTC – Activities and Funding Opportunities in Control of Infectious Diseases in CIS”
Dr. Martine Bonin, INTAS, Moscow: “Health and Infectious Diseases in INTAS projects: Established East-West Partnerships”
Prof. Nadia Boiko, Uzhhorod National University, Pidgirna, Ukraine: “Collaborative research projects in infection control with Ukrainian partners”

Part 2: Public Health
Prof. Alexander Krämer, School of Public Health, University of Bielefeld: “Megacities – Megachallenge for infectious disease control”
Frauke Jochims, Médecins sans frontières, London, Berlin: “Field Work in Infection Control as Basis for Collaborative Projects”

Part 4: Tuberculosis
Dr. Timo Ulrichs, Vice President Koch-Metchnikov-Forum, Berlin, “Stop TB Partnership for Europe: Research in Tuberculosis Control – from Immunology to Public Health”
Prof. Alexander S. Apt, Central Tuberculosis Research Institute, Moscow: “A mirror-type genetic sensitivity to two relative infections: immunity to and pathogeneses of Mycobacterium tuberculosis- and Mycobacterium avium-triggered diseases in mice”
Prof. Svitlana Cherenko, Institute of Phthisiology and Pneumonitis, Ukraine: “Management of patients with multidrug resistant tuberculosis, collaboration with neighboring countries: transmission of infection, regimens of chemotherapy, duration of intensive and prolonged phases of treatment and monitoring”
Dr. George A. Kosmiadi, Central Tuberculosis Research Institute, Moscow: “7 years of German-Russian Cooperation - Understanding the Local Immune Response in Human Tuberculosis”
Dr. Valentina Vilc, State Medical University Nicolae Testemitanu, Chisinau, Moldova: title to follow

Part 5: Vaccine development
Dr. Camille Locht, Institut Pasteur, Lille: “Current status in TB vaccine development”
Prof. Alexander Gabibov, Shemyakin & Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow: “Catalytic Vaccines”
Dr. Siegfried Weiss, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Infektionsforschung, Braunschweig: „Novel Strategies in Vaccine Development“

Part 6: Antiinfective strategies
Prof. Dr.Mykhaylo Tukalo, Institute of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Ukraine: “Directional search for synthetic antibacterial compounds against specific human infections”
Prof. S.N. Kochetkov, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology, Moscow: “New Blockators of HCV Replication”
Dr. Tatiana V. Ovchinnikova, Shemyakin & Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow: “Antimicrobial Peptides as Molecular Factors of Innate Immunity and their Therapeutic Potential as Antiinfective Drugs”

Round table discussion with all speakers