program

Pre-Evening Event, 27/11/2024

19:00 - 22:00

Welcome reception drinks & snack 

  • Bar Ameron (on generous invitation by BioGenius)

 

Program, Thursday, 28/11/2024

09:00 - 09:10 

Welcome and Opening

  • Dr. Florian H. H. Brill & Alexander Brux
09:10 - 11:00

BPR Data Packages: Risk assessment, residual test and other data packages. An Update of requirements and challenges today
Chair: Dr. Michael Werner, Bielefeld

  • Current challenges and New Pitfalls in Human Health Risk Assessment for Biocides, Dr. Volker Mostert, Langenfeld
  • BPR: expectations meet reality. A consultant view, Dr. Maren Lillich, Bad Kreuznach
  • Efficacy testing of biocidal products on surfaces against insects - methodology and its challenges, Martin Tomakidi, Dr. Fabian Müller, Bergisch Gladbach
  • Keeping track of the BPR maze: How to master data generation and how it all relates to product assessment, Kai Dettmer, Hamburg
BREAK
11:30 - 12:30

Panel discussion: 25 years Biocidal Regulation – Lessons learned and Outlook
Moderator: Dr. Michael Werner

  • Panelists:
    - Christoph Zutz, Kwizda Agro, Vienna
    - Dr. Volker Mostert, EXTERA, Langenfeld
    - Heike Schimmelpfennig, Dr. Brill Regulatory Services, Hamburg
    - Mike Bublitz, BioGenius GmbH, Bergisch Gladbach
LUNCH
13:30 - 14:15

Keynote Lecture Professor Dr. Ojan Assadian, Vienna
Relevance for Applied Hospital Hygiene from Hospital Management view

BREAK
14:45 - 16:15

Session: Hot topic Infection Prevention & Control
Chairs: Professor Dr. Eike Steinmann, Bochum and Professor Dr. Jörg Steinmann, Nuremberg

  • Disinfection profiles of (re-)emerging viruses, Dr. Toni Luise Meister, Hamburg
  • COVID-19 – From rapid prevention to understanding disease mechanisms, Prof. Dr. Stephanie Pfänder, Hamburg
  • Alongshan virus: An Emerging Segmented Flavivirus with Human Tropism, Dr. André Gömer, Bochum 
  • Hidden transmissions - results from longitudinal epidemiology of environmental and clinical isolates, Professor Dr. Johannes Knobloch, Hamburg
BREAK
16:45 - 17:30

Keynote Lecture Professor Dr. Rasmus Leistner, Berlin
Environmental cleaning with probiotic-based agents - opportunities and risks in the prevention of nosocomial infections

EVENING PROGRAM
18:30 - 19:00
19:00 - 22:00
22:30 - 23:00
Boarding at “Überseebrücke” on MS Concordia
Boat cruise including dinner through river Elbe and Hamburg Harbor
Unboarding from MS Concordia

 

Program, Friday, 29/11/2024

09:00 - 11:00

Keynote Lecture Dr. Florian H. H. Brill, Hamburg
Overview of development of efficacy testing of disinfectants, antiseptics, wound dressings, and antimicrobial surfaces 2030

BREAK 
11:30 - 13:00

Session Resistance Development
Chair: Professor Dr. Jörg Steinmann, Nuremberg

  • Development and testing of Resistance Development, Professor Dr. Laurent Piorel, Fribourg (CH)
  • Efficacy of laundry disinfection procedures against Candida auris More resistant than other Candida?, Dr. Britta Brands, Kleve
  • Efficacy of surface disinfectants against different Candida auris clades, Henrik Gabriel, Hamburg

Session Biofilm Activity testing & Medical Devices, Chair: Dr. Matthias Buhmann, Hamburg

  • Relevance of and testing against Biofilms in flexible Endoscopes, Dr. Lionel Pineau, Marseille
  • Drain Hygiene – Using a small-scale biofilm model to test the activity of a drain disinfection procedure in a practice-relevant assay, Nicole van Leuven, Kleve
  • Biofilms and Regulations – What is going on and what is coming?, Paulina Rakowska
LUNCH 

14:00 - 15:30

 

Practice-like activity tests for biocidal Products and their regulatory Impact
Chairs: Dr. Kerstin Walendy-Gnirss, Dr. Gunnar Kleist, Hamburg

  • Role and responsibilities of Regulatory Affairs in the disinfectant marketing process, Dr. Gunnar Kleist, Hamburg
  • Evaluation of Residual Activity in Common Skin Antiseptic Actives Using the IMS Vitro-Skin Model, Dr. Marven Lee, Kuala Lumpur

 

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