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. 2007 Feb 22;74(3):A1–A26. doi: 10.1016/j.antiviral.2007.01.008

The Twentieth International Conference on Antiviral Research

PMCID: PMC7127467

Sponsored by:
The International Society For Antiviral Research
At the Westin Mission Hills Resort
Palm Springs, CA, USA
April 29–May 3, 2007
Table of Contents
Page
Organization and Conference Committees
Organizing Secretariats, Introduction To Sponsor
Corporate Sponsors
Satellite Symposium, Social Functions
Scientific Program



Monday, April 30, 2007
 Oral Session I: Retroviruses I
 Oral Session II: Respiratory and West Nile Viruses
 Poster Session I: Retroviruses, Respiratory Viruses, West Nile Virus, Hepatitis Viruses, and Antiviral Methods



Tuesday, May 1, 2007
 Mini-Symposium: Hepatitis C Virus: Translating Research to Medicine



Wednesday, May 2, 2007
 Oral Session III: Herpesviruses I and Poxviruses I
 Invitation to 21st ICAR, ISAR Business Meeting
 Oral Session IV: Hepatitis Viruses I
 Poster Session II: Herpesviruses, Poxviruses, other Antivirals, and Medicinal Chemistry



Thursday May 3, 2007
 Oral Session V: Hepatitis Viruses II, Herpesviruses II and Poxviruses II
 Oral Session VI: Other Viruses and Late Breaker Presentations



Abstracts
Complete Author Index
Invitation to the 21th International Conference on Antiviral Research
Locations for Future International Conferences on Antiviral Research
Organization
International Society for Antiviral Research
and
Twentieth International Conference on Antiviral Research
Officers
President—Christopher McGuigan, Cardiff, Wales, UK
President-Elect—Amy K. Patick, San Diego, California, USA
Secretary—Joseph Colacino, South Plainfield, New Jersey, USA
Treasurer—John D. Morrey, Logan, Utah, USA
Past President—John A. Secrist III, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
ISAR Conference Committee
Chair: John A. Secrist III, Birmingham, Alabama, USA
Karen K. Biron, Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA
Robert W. Buckheit, Frederick, Maryland, USA
Erik DeClercq, Leuven, Belgium
John C. Drach, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA
José A. Esté, Barcelona, Spain
A. Kirk Field, North Wales, Pennsylvania, USA
George J. Galasso, Rockville, Maryland, USA
Paul D. Griffiths, London, UK
John D. Morrey, Logan, Utah, USA
Robert W. Sidwell, Logan, Utah, USA
Leroy B. Townsend, Sedona, Arizona, USA
Organizing Secretariats
Courtesy Associates John A. Secrist III
2025 M Street, NW Southern Research Institute
Suite 800 P.O. Box 55305
Washington, DC 20036 Birmingham, AL 35255-5305
USA USA
Phone: +1 202 973 8690 Phone: +1 205 581 2442
Fax: +1 202 331 0111 Fax: +1 205 581 2870
E-mail: isar@courtesyassoc.com E-mail: Secrist@sri.org
Introduction To Sponsor
The International Society For Antiviral Research (ISAR)

The Society was organized in 1987 as a non-profit scientific organization for the purpose of advancing and disseminating knowledge in all areas of antiviral research. To achieve this objective, the Society organizes an annual meeting. The Society is now in its twenty first year of existence, and has about 600 members representing 30 countries. For membership application forms or further information, please contact Dr. Joseph M. Colacino, Secretary, ISAR; Vice President, Drug Discovery, PTC Therapeutics, Inc., 100 Corporate Court, south Plainfield, NJ 07080, USA, Phone +1 908 222 7000x131; fax +1 908 222 0567; E-mail jcolacin0@ptcbio.com. Membership application forms will also be available at the Conference Registration desk, or from our website http://m114.phrm.cf.ac.uk/isar/node/1.

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Platinum
Gilead Sciences Inc., Foster City, CA, USA
Gold
JCR Pharmaceuticals Co. Ltd., Ashiya, Japan
Pfizer, Inc., New York, NY, USA
Silver
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation, East Hanover, NJ, USA
GlaxoSmithKline, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA
Bronze
Abbott Laboratories, Abbott Park, IL, USA
Biota, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Boehringer Ingelheim (Canada) Ltd., Laval, Quebec, Canada
Bristol-Myers Squibb Pharmaceuticals Institute, Princeton, NJ, USA
Debiopharm Group, Lausanne, Switzerland
Medimmune, Inc., Gaithersburg, MD, USA
Medivir AB, Huddinge, Sweden
Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, PA, USA
Pharmasset, Inc., Princeton, NJ, USA
PTC Therapeutics Inc., South Plainfield, NJ, USA
Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, AL, USA
Vertex Pharmaceuticals Inc., Cambridge, MA, USA
Wyeth Research, Pearl River, NY, USA
Additional Support Provided by:
Office of AIDS Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA
SATELLITE SYMPOSIUM
Clinical Update on Antiviral Drugs
Sunday, April 29, 2007
2:00–5:00 p.m.
Celebrity Ballroom EFGH
Westin Mission Hills Resort
SOCIAL EVENTS
Opening Reception
with light hors d’oeuvres
Sunday, April 29, 2007
6:00–8:00 p.m.
Masters Plaza
Westin Mission Hills Resort
Conference Banquet
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Reception
7:30 p.m.
Celebrity Foyer and Plazas
Westin Mission Hills Resort
Dinner and Program
8:00–10:00 p.m.
Celebrity Ballroom EFGH
Westin Mission Hills Resort
Final Program
Twentieth International Conference on Antiviral Research
Sponsored by the
International Society for Antiviral Research
At the Westin Mission Hills Resort
Palm Springs, California
April 29–May 3, 2007
2007 International Conference on Antiviral Research
Monday, April 30, 2007
Opening Greetings
Celebrity Ballroom EFGH
Welcome to the 20th ICAR, Christopher McGuigan, President ISAR
Welcome to Palm Springs, John A. Secrist III, Chair, ICAR Conference Committee



Oral Session I: Retrovirus I
Celebrity Ballroom EFGH
Chairs: Wade Blair, Ph.D. and Masanori Baba, Ph.D.
08:45 Plenary Speaker
Daria Hazuda, Ph.D., Vice President, Merck Research Laboratories, West Point, PA, USA
“Inhibitors of HIV-1 Integrase: Lessons from In Vivo, Preclinical, and Clinical Studies”



09:15 1. Identification of a Novel Small Molecule Inhibitor that Targets HIV-1 Envelope Maturation
Judith Jimenez, Joan Cao, Lynn Jackson, Qinghai Peng, Hua Wu, Jason Isaacson, Scott Butler, Amy K. Patick, Wade S. Blair
Pfizer Global Research and Development (La Jolla, CA, USA)



09:30 2. GS-8374, a Novel Phosphonate HIV Protease Inhibitor with Potent In Vitro Antiretroviral Activity, Low Metabolic Toxicity, and Favorable Resistance Profile
Christian Callebaut1, Kirsten Stray1, Luong Tsai1, Lianhong Xu1, Gong-Xin He1, Andrew Mulato1, Tina Priskich2, Neil Parkin2, William Lee1, Tomas Cihlar1
1Gilead Sciences, Foster City, CA, USA; 2Monogram Biosciences, S. San Francisco, CA, USA



09:45 3. The CXCR4 Antagonist POL3026 is a Potent Inhibitor of Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Gemma Moncunill1, Imma Clotet-Codina1, Anuska LLano1, Mercedes Armand-Ugón1, Bonaventura Clotet1, Jan Willem Vrijbloed2, José A. Esté1
1Retrovirology Laboratory IrsiCaixa and AIDS Unit, Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, 08916 Badalona, Spain; 2Polyphor Ltd., Basel, Switzerland



10:00 Break



10:30 4. Mutations in the RNaseH Region Observed in the HIV-1 of Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) Experienced Patients
J. Waters1, W. O’Neal1, K. White2, E. Lansdon2, M. Miller2, J. Harris1, K. Borroto-Esoda1
1Gilead Sciences, Durham, NC, USA; 2Gilead Sciences, Foster City, CA, USA



10:45 5. Involvement of New Mutational Pattern in HIV-1 gp41 in T-20 Treatment
Stefano Aquaro1,2, Valentina Svicher2, Roberta D’Arrigo3, Mario Santoro2, Giovanni Di Perri4, Sergio Lo Caputo5, Ubaldo Visco-Comandini3, Pasquale Narciso3, Andrea Antinori3, Carlo Federico Perno3
1University of Calabria, Rende (CS), Italy; 2University “Tor Vergata”, Rome, Italy; 3“L Spallanzani” Institute, Rome, Italy; 4University of Turin, Italy; 5“SM Annunziata” Hospital, Florence, Italy



11:00 6. Drug Resistance to Tipranavir (TPV) or Darunavir (DRV) According to New Interpretation Algorithms in PI-naïve HIV-1 Infected Patients
M. Stuermer1, B. Dauer1, A. Haberl1, A. Mueller1, P. Gute2, S. Klauke3, S. Staszewski1, H.W. Doerr1
1JWG-University Hospital, Frankfurt, Germany; 2HIV Specialty Practice, Frankfurt, Germany; 3IFS, Frankfurt, Germany



11:15 7. HIV Interactions With Other Viruses Determine Pathogenesis in Human Lymphoid Tissues
Leonid Margolis
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development



11:30 Lunch
Elion Award Lecture
Celebrity Ballroom EFGH
13:30 Presentation of Award: Christopher McGuigan, Ph.D., President ISAR
Awardee lecture: Frederick Hayden, MD, USA, Medical Officer, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland
“Influenza: Progress, Problems, and Future Prospects”



Oral Session II: Respiratory and West Nile Viruses
Celebrity Ballroom EFGH
Chairs: Colleen Jonsson, Ph.D. and Don Smee, Ph.D.
14:15 8. Identification and Biochemical Characterization of Small Molecule Inhibitors of West Nile Virus Serine Protease By A High Throughput Screen
Radhakris Padmanabhan1, Niklaus Mueller1, Nagarajan Pattabiraman2
1Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Georgetown University; 2Biomids Inc.



14:30 9. Discovery of a New Class of Polycyclic RSV Inhibitors
Silas Bond1, Alistair Draffan1, John Lambert1, Chin-Yu Lim1, Bo Lin1, Angela Luttick1, Jeff Mitchell1, Craig Morton1, Roland Nearn1, Vanessa Sanford1, Simon Tucker1
1Biota Holdings Limited; 2MedImmune Inc.



14:45 10. Potent Inhibition of Viral Entry and Replication of SARS-CoV by siRNAs Targeting the Genes Encoding the Cellular ACE2 Receptor or the Viral Nucleocapsid Protein
Xin Yan1,2,3, Hua Shen2, Yan Feng1, Jun Wang2, Shiwen Lou4, Liping Wang5, Gillian Wong1, Zhaoxiong Yang2, Hongjian Jiang6, Xinqi Wu6, Dan Hu5, Yi Guan4, Fiona Smaill1, Chengsheng Zhang1
1Department of Pathology & Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Canada; 2New Medical Science Research Institute, New York, USA; 3Institute of Chongqing Traditional Chinese Medicine, Chongqing, China; 4Department of Microbiology, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; 5Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA; 6Children's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA



15:00 11. Thiazolides: A New Class of Broad-Spectrum Antiviral Drugs Targeting Virus Maturation
M. Gabriella Santoro1, Alessandra Ciucci1, Patrizia Gianferretti1, Giuseppe Belardo1, Simone La Frazia1, Stefania Carta1, Jean-Francois Rossignol2
1Department of Biology, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Rome, Italy; 2Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA



15:15 12. Oseltamivir-Ribavirin Combination Therapy for Highly Pathogenic H5N1 Influenza Virus Infection in Mice
Natalia A. Ilyushina, Robert G. Webster, Elena A. Govorkova
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA



15:30 13. Intramuscular Administration of Neuraminidase Inhibitor Peramivir Promotes Survival Against Lethal H5N1 Influenza Infection in Mice
David A. Boltz1, Natalia A. Ilyushina1, C. Shane Arnold2, Y. Sudhakar Babu2, Robert G. Webster1, Elena A. Govorkova1
1St Jude Children's Research Hospital, Memphis, TN 38105, USA; 2BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc., Birmingham, AL 35244, USA



15:45 14. Treatment of Paralysis Caused by West Nile Virus in Hamsters
John D. Morrey1, Venkatraman Siddharthan1, Hong Wang1, Aaron L. Olsen1, Ramona Skirpstunas1, Jeffery O. Hall1, Hua Li2, Scott Koenig2, Syd Johnson2, Jeffrey L. Nordstrom2, Nicole Marlenee3, Richard A. Bowen3, Michael S. Diamond4
1Institute for Antiviral Research, ADVS Depart, Utah State Univ, USA; 2Macrogenics, Inc.; 3Depart of Biomed Sci, Colorado State Univ; 4Depart of Mol Micro, Medicine, and Pathol & Immunol, Washington Univ, St. Loius
Poster Session I: Retrovirus, Respiratory Virus, West Nile Virus and Hepatitis Virus, and Antiviral Methods
Celebrity Ballroom ABCD
16:00–18:00
43. Intranasal Protollin Formulated Recombinant SARS-CoV S Protein Elicits Respiratory and Serum Neutralizing Antibodies Dale Barnard1, Mary Hu2, Taff Jones3, Richard Kenney4, David Burt3, George Lowell3
1Institute for Antiviral Research, Dept. ADVS, Utah State University; 2GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals North America of Washington; 3GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals North America of Quebec; 4GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals North America of Maryland



44. Bile Acid Conjugates Improve the Oral Bioavailability of the Neurominidase Inhibitor Zanamivir
Phillip Kish1, Jae Seung Kim1, Blake Roessler2, Shelby Campbell1, John Hilfinger1
1TSRL, Inc. Ann Arbor, MI 48108; 2University of Michigan, Dept of Internal Medicine, Ann Arbor 48109, USA



45. Lymphocytic Necrosis in Hamsters Inoculated with Western Equine Encephalitis Virus
Aaron Olsen1, John Morrey1, Justin Julander1, Jeffery Hall2, Ramona Skirpstunas2, Robert Sidwell1
1Institute for Antiviral Research, Utah State University; 2Utah Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory, Utah State University



46. Combined Anti-Influenza Virus Effect of a Plant Polyphenol-Rich Extract and Ribavirin
Julia Serkedjieva, Ani Teodosieva
Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria



47. Anti-influenza A Synergistic Combination Effect of Rimantadine and Oseltamivir in Mice
Lora Simeonova, Angel S. Galabov, Galina Gegova
The Stephan Angeloff Institute of Microbiology, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, BG-1113, Sofia, Bulgaria



48. Phosphorodiamidate Morpholino Oligomer-Mediated Inhibition of Influenza A Virus in Mice
Thomas Voss2, Kelly Warfield3, Rebecca Brocato2, Joseph Barbercheck2, Bryan Kaplin2, David Stein1, Sina Bavari1, Patrick Iversen1
1AVI BioPharma Inc., 4575 SW Research Way, Corvallis, OR 97333, USA; 2Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Tulane University School of Medicine, New Orleans 70112 LA, USA; 3US Army Medical Research Institute for Infectious Diseases, Fort Detrick, Frederick, MD 21702, USA



49. Practical Synthesis of (−)-Carbocyclic Cytosine (Carbodine) and its In Vitro Antiviral Activity against Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis (VEE) Virus and Yellow Fever Virus
J. R. Rao1, J. G. Julander2, R. W. Sidwell2, C. K. Chu1
1The University of Georgia College of Pharmacy, Athens, GA, 30602, USA; 2Utah State University Institute Antiviral Research, Logan, UT 84322, USA



50. Synthesis, Anti-HIV and CD4 Down-Modulation Activities of Novel CADA Compounds
Sreenivasa Anugu1, Thomas Bell1, Noah Duffy1, Kurt Vermeire2, Dominique Schols2
1Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada, Reno, NV, 89557, USA; 2Rega Institute for Medical Research, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium



51. Synthesis and Antiviral Evaluation of Iso-methyl-alkoxyalkyl (S)-HPMPA Esters
James R. Beadle1, Karl Y. Hostetler1, R. Mark Buller2, Jill Schriewer2, Kathy A. Aldern1, Mark N. Prichard3, Kathy Keith3, Earl R. Kern3
1University of California, San Diego and the San Diego Veterans Medical Research Foundation, San Diego, CA, USA; 2Department of Molecular Microbiology and Immunology, Saint Louis University, St. Louis, MO, USA; 3Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama School of Medicine, Birmingham, AL, USA



52. Raft-tropic Antivirals: 1. Synthesis and anti-HIV-1 Evaluation of Cholesten-containing Polyanios
Y. Egorov, A. Serbin, O. Alikhanova, M. Burshtein, S. Lupandin, A. Bukrinskaya
Health RDF, Moscow, Russia



53. 7-Deaza Neplanocin Analogs Inhibit Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) in Vitro
HJ Kim1, JN Wang1, ZH Huang2, MG Murray2, RF Schinazi3, CK Chu1
1The University of Georgia College of Pharmacy; 2Southern Research Institute; 3Emory University School of Medicine/ Veterans Affairs Medical Center



54. QSAR Analysis of Anti-Coxsackievirus B3 Nancy Activity of 2-Amino-3-Nitropyrazole[1,5-α]Pyrimidines by Means of Simplex Approach
V. Kuz’min1,2, E. Muratov1,2, A. Artemenko2, I. Volineckaya2, V. Makarov3, O. Riabova3, P. Wutzler4, M. Schmidtke4
1Jackson State University, Jackson, MS, USA; 2A.V. Bogatsky Physical-Chemical Institute, Odessa, Ukraine; 3Research Center for Antibiotics, Moscow, Russia; 4Institute of Virology and Antiviral Therapy, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany



55. The Design, Synthesis and Anti-HIV Activity of a selected group of 2′,3′-didehydro-2′,3′-dideoxyguanosine (d4G) and 2′,3′-dideoxyguanosine (ddG) ‘ProTide’ Derivatives
Youcef Mehellou1, Christopher McGuigan1, Jan Balzarini2
1Welash School of Pharmacy, Cardiff University, King Edward VII Avenue, Cardiff CF10 3XF, UK; 2Rega Institute for Medical Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium



56. Novel Diketo Phosphonic Acids Constructed on Nucleobase Scaffolds: Design, Synthesis, Molecular Modeling and anti-HIV Activity
Vasu Nair, Guochen Chi, Iwona Dams, Byung Seo, Vinod Uchil, Arthur Cox
Center for Drug Discovery and Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA



57. Design, Synthesis, Anti-Hiv and Cytotoxicity of Novel Heterocyclic Compounds
Periyasamy Selvam1, Narayanan Murugesh2, Markandavel Chandramohan3, Erik De Clercq4, Christophe Pannecouque4
1Arulmigu Kalasalingam College of Pharmacy, Anand nagar, Krishnankoil 626190, India; 2Institute of Pharmacology, Madurai Medical College, Madurai 625020, India; 3Bharat Ratna Kamarajar Liver Hospital and Research Centre, Madurai 625001, India; 4Rega institute of medical research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium



58. Poly-Cooperation of Ionic and Non-Ionic Antiviral Vectors
A. Serbin, Y. Egorov, O. Alikhanova
Health RDF, Moscow, Russia



59. Potent HCV NS5B Polymerase Inhibitors Derived From 5-Hydroxy-3(2H)-Pyridazinones: Part 2. Variation of the 2- and 6- Pyridazinone Substituents
Y. Zhou, L.-S. Li, S. Webber, B. Ayida, T. Bertolini, Z. Sun, J. Zhao, N. Stankovic, R. Patel, B. Li, L. LeBrun, R. Kamran, M. Sergeeva, D. Bartkowski, J. Khandurina
Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA



60. Synthesis of Novel Types of Anti-Coxsackie Virus Compounds
Michal Šála1, Hubert Hřebabecký1, Martin Dračínský1, Armando De Palma2, Johan Neyts2, Antonín Holý1
1Centre for New Antivirals and Antineoplastics, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, 166 10 Prague 6, Czech Republic; 2Rega Institute for Medical Research, Minderbroedersstraat 10, BE-3000, Leuven, Belgium



61. Metabolism and Pharmacokinetic Studies of SB 9000—A Novel Anti-HBV agent
John Coughlin, Seetharamaiyer Padmanabhan, Radhakrishnan Iyer
Spring Bank Technologies, Inc., 113, Cedar Street, Suite S-7, Milford, MA 01757, USA
kiyer@springbanktech.com



62. Neutralizing Human Antibodies from Immune Phage Display Antibody Library Recognize p35 Orthopoxvirus Protein
Viktoriya Dubrovskaya, Belanov Evgeniy, Bormotov Nikolay, Tikunova Nina
FSRI SRC VB “Vector”



63. New Digital Method of Virus-Cell Interaction Description
Andriy Fedchuk1, Oleksandr Fedchuk1, Alla Fedchuk2, Pavlo Fedchuk3
1I.I. Mechnikov Odesa National University; 2I.I. Mechnikov Ukrainian Research Anti-Plague Institute; 3Odesa State Academy of Refrigeration



64. Fractal Microscope—Multipurpose Device For Antiviral Research
Oleksandr Fedchuk1, Andriy Fedchuk1, Alla Fedchuk2, Pavlo Fedchuk3
1I.I. Mechnikov Odesa National University; 2I.I. Mechnikov Ukrainian Research Anti-Plague Institute; 3Odesa State Academy of Refrigeration



65. Sublingual Delivery of SB 9000—An Anti-HBV Dinucleoside Phosphorothioate Analog
Radhakrishnan Iyer1, Padma Devarajan2, Sayalee Shastri2, Swati Guhagarkar2, Rita Mulherkar3, Ganesh Joshi3, Seetharamaiyer Padmanabhan1, John Coughlin1
1Spring Bank Technologies, Inc., 113 Cedar Street, Milford, MA 01757, USA; 2University Institute of Chemical Technology, Matunga, Mumbai 40019, India; 3Tata Memorial Centre, Advanced Centre for Treatment, Research, and Education in Cancer, Navi Mumbai 410208, India



66. Initial Pharmacodynamic Evaluation of Orally Bioavailable Prodrugs of SB-9000, a Novel Anti-HBV Agent
Radhakrishnan Iyer1, Seetharamaiyer Padmanabhan1, John Coughlin1, Guangrong Zhang1, Cassandra Kirk1, Brent Korba2, John Morrey3
1Spring Bank Technologies, Inc., 113 Cedar Street, Milford, MA 01757, USA; 2Division of Molecular Virology and Immunology, Georgetown University, Rockville, MD, USA; 3Institute for Antiviral Research, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA
kiyer@springbanktech.comjmorrey@cc.usu.edu



67. Characterization of Influenza Virus Clinical Isolates Obtained during Clinical Study of Arbidol
Irina Leneva1, Elena Burtseva2, Elena Shevchenko2, Alexander Shuster3
1Centre of Chemistry of Drugs, Moscow, Russia; 2Ivanovsky Institute of Virology, Moscow, Russia; 3Masterlek, Moscow, Russia



68. Preclinical Development of a New Class of Orally Active Drug Candidates for the Treatment of RSV Infections
Angela Luttick1, Bo Lin1, Craig Morton1, Simon Tucker1, Silas Bond1, Alistair Draffan1, John Lambert1, Chin-Yu Lim1, Jeff Mitchell1, Vanessa Sanford1, Jane Ryan1, Annette Kerr1, Jega Iswaran1, JoAnn Suzich2, Mike McCarthy2
1Biota Holdings Limited; 2MedImmune, Inc.



69. Carbohydrate-Binding Agents (CBAs) Potently Inhibit HIV Infection in Human Primary Monocytes/Macrophages and Efficiently Prevent Viral Capture and Subsequent Transmission to CD+4 T Lymphocytes
Michela Pollicita1,2, Stefano Aquaro2, Willy J. Peumans3, Els JM Van Damme3, Carlo Federico Perno2, Dominique Schols1, Jan Balzarini1
1Rega Institute for Medical Research, K.U.Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; 2University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Italy; 3Department of Molecular Biology, Ghent University, Belgium



70. Generation and Characterization of Fully Human Antibodies Against Orthopoxviruses
Tatynana Yun1, Nina Tikunova1, Ludmila Shingarova2
1FSRI SRC VB “Vector”; 2Shemyakin and Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry



71. Susceptibility of German Porcine H3N2 influenza A Viruses Against Existing Antiviral Drugs
Katja Bauer1, Christina Schrader2, Jochen Suess3, Peter Wutzler1, Michaela Schmidtke1
1Institute of Virology and Antiviral Therapy, FSU, Jena, Germany; 2Federal Institute for Risk Assessment, Berlin, Germany; 3Friedrich Loeffler Institute, Jena, Germany



72. Activation of GS-7340 and Other Tenofovir Phosphonoamidate Prodrugs by Human Proteases
Gabriel Birkus, Nilima Kutty, Gong-Xin He, Andrew Mulato, William Lee, Martin McDermott, Tomas Cihlar
Gilead Science, 333 Lakeside Drive, Foster City, CA 94404, USA



73. NIM811, A Cyclophilin Inhibitor, and NM107, an HCV Polymerase Inhibitor, Synergistically Inhibits HCV Replication and Suppresses the Emergence of Resistance In Vitro
Joanna Boerner, Sue Ma, Teresa Compton, Kai Lin
Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research, 500 Technology Sq., Cambridge, MA 02139, USA



74. Identification of Novel Low Molecular Weight HIV-1 gp41 Fusion Inhibitors Using A New Quantitative High Throughput Fluorescence Intensity Assay
Miriam Gochin1,2, Lifeng Cai1
1Dept. Basic Sciences, Touro University—California, Vallejo, CA 94592, USA; 2Dept. Pharmaceutical Chemistry, UCSF, San Francisco, CA 94143, USA



75. Development of ATP/Luminescence Assays for Profiling Compounds Against a Panel of Positive-Strand RNA Viruses
Edwin Gong, Tania Ivens, Christel Van den Eynde, Sabine Hallenberger, Kurt Hertogs
Tibotec BVBA, Generaal De Wittelaan L11B3, 2800 Mechelen, Belgium



76. Discovery of Two Novel Classes of Inhibitors of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Replication utilizing a Dicistronic Reporter HCV Replicon High Throughput Assay
Weidong Hao, Peter Weady, Fausto Maldonado, Amy Patick, Rohit Duggal
Pfizer Global Research and Development, San Diego, CA 92121, USA



77. Development and Validation of a High Throughput Screen for Inhibitors of Respiratory Syncytial Virus
Marintha Heil, Michael McDowell, Colleen Jonsson, William Severson
Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, 2000 9th Avenue South, Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, AL 35205, USA



78. Development of Intergenotypic Chimeric Replicons for Broad-Spectrum Antiviral Activity Characterization of Hepatitis C Virus Polymerase Inhibitors
Koleen Herlihy
Pfizer PGRD, La Jolla Laboratories



79. shRNAs Targeting Hepatitis C: Effects of Sequence and Structural Features, and Comparison With siRNA
Brian Johnston1,4, Alexander Vlassov1,3, Brent Korba2, Heini Ilves1, Roger Kaspar1,5, Sergei Kazakov1, Kristine Farrar2, Sampa Mukerjee2, Attila Seyhan1
1Somagenics, Inc., Santa Cruz, CA, USA; 2Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Georgetown University Medical Center; 3Institute of Chemical Biology and Fundamental Medicine, Novosibirsk, Russia; 4Department of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine; 5TransDerm, Inc., Santa Cruz, CA, USA



80. Synthesis and Anti-HBV Activity of 7-Deaza-Neplanocin A Analogs
Hyo-Joong Kim1, Ashoke Sharon1, B. E. Korba2, Chung K. Chu1
1The University of Georgia College of Pharmacy, Athens, GA 30602; 2Georgetown University School of Medicine, Rockville, MD 20850, USA



82. Pharmacodynamics of NPI-5291, an Adamantane Class Compound, for Influenza A Viruses
James McSharry1, Kris Zager1, Qingmei Weng1, David Chernoff2, George Drusano1
1Ordway Research Institute; 2Neuromolecular Pharma



83. The Triple Combination of Tenofovir, Emtricitabine and Efavirenz Shows Synergistic Anti-HIV-1 Activity In Vitro
F. Myrick1, J. Feng1, E. Svarovskaia1, M. Miller2, K. Borroto-Esoda1
1Gilead Sciences, Durham, NC, USA; 2Gilead Sciences, Foster City, CA, USA



84. High Throughput Screening of a 100,000 Compound Library for Inhibitors of Influenza A virus (H3N2)
William Severson1, Michael McDowell1, Lynn Rasumussen2, Mindy Sosa2, Subramaniam Ananthan3, James Noah1, Lucile White2, Colleen Jonsson1
1Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology; 2High Throughput Screening Center; 3Department of Chemistry, Southern Research Institute, Birmingham, AL 35205, USA



85. Antiviral Activity of Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors against Porcine Endogenous Retroviruses (PERV)
Minyi Shi1,2, Xin Wang1, Erik De Clercq3, Sonshin Takao2, Masanori Baba1
1Center for Chronic Viral Diseases, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan; 2Frontier Science Research Center, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan; 3Rega Institute for Medical Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium



86. 17-AAG, an Hsp90 Inhibitor, Suppress Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Replication
Saneyuki Ujino1, Kunitada Shimotohno3, Hiroshi Takaku1,2
1Department of Life and Environmental Sciences; 2High Technology Research Center, Chiba Institute of Technology, 2-17-1 Tsudanuma Narashino, Chiba 275-0016, Japan; 3Department of Viral Oncology, Institute for Virus Research, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-0507, Japan



87. Development of Anti-Infective Topical Microbicides: 2. Quantifying Inhibition of Virus Transmission in Microbicidal Setting
Karen Watson, Lu Yang, Robert Buckheit Jr.
ImQuest BioSciences, Inc., Frederick, MD, USA



88. Development of Anti-Infective Topical Microbicides: 1. Effects of Seminal and Vaginal Fluids and Other Additives on Viral Infection and Drug Efficacy
Karen Watson, Lu Yang, Robert Buckheit Jr.
ImQuest BioSciences, Inc., Frederick, MD, USA



89. Development of Anti-Infective Topical Microbicides: 3. Combination Microbicidal Approaches Targeting Multiple Virus Targets or Utilizing Multi-Functional Anti-Infective Agents
Karen Watson, Tracy Hartman, Lu Yang, Robert Buckheit Jr.
ImQuest BioSciences, Inc., Frederick, MD, USA



90. Peptidomimetic Dimerization Inhibitors of HIV-1 Protease: Further Insights Into Structural Variations and Mechanism of Action
Ludovic Bannwarth1, Thierry Rose2, Silvia Frutos3, Ernest Giralt3, Regis Vanderesse4, Brigitte Jamart-Grégoire4, Anamaria Vidu5, Sandrine Ongeri5, Sames Sicsic5, Christophe Pannecouque6, Erik De Clercq6, Michèle Reboud-Ravaux1
1Lab. Molecular and Functional Enzymology, FRE2852, CNRS-University Paris 6, Paris, France; 2Macromolecular Biophysics Facility, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France; 3Institut di Recerca Biochèmica, Parc scientific de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; 4Lab. Macromol. Chemistry and Physics, UMR7568, ENSIC, Nancy, France; 5Lab. Mol. Recognition and Synthesis, Biocis-CNRS, UMR C8076, Fac. Pharmacy, Châtenay-Malabry, France; 6Rega Institute, Leuven, Belgium



91. A High Throughput HIV-1 Full Replication Assay that Includes HIV-1 Vif as an Antiviral Target
Joan Cao, Jason Isaacson, Amy Patick, Wade Blair
Pfizer Global Research and Development, La Jolla, CA, USA



92. DC-SIGN is not Required for HIV-1 Transmission to CD4+ T Lymphocytes
Imma Clotet-Codina, Berta Bosch, Ruth Peña, Bonaventura Clotet, Margarita Bofill, José A. Esté
Retrovirology Laboratory irsiCaixa, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08916 Badalona, Spain



93. The Virtues of Unique Ribonucleotide Reductase Inhibitors Didox and Trimidox for Retrovirus Therapy
Howard Elford1, Ron Lee2, Jadwiga Turchan3, Vincent Gallicchio4, Michael Ussery5, John Hiscott2, Avindra Nath3
1Molecules for Health, Inc.; 2McGill University; 3Johns Hopkins University; 4Clemson University; 5NIAID, National Institutes of Health



94. Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Does Not Escape From Novel Single-Stranded DNAzyme Expression-Mediated Inhibition
Masaak Hyafune1, Yuka Mouri1, Naoko Miyano-Kurosaki1,2, Kahoko Hashimoto1, Hiroshi Takaku1,2
1Department of Life and Environmental Sciences; 2High Technology Research Center, Chiba Institute of Technology, Tsudanuma, Narshino, Chiba 275-0016, Japan



95. Characterization of a New Class of Polycyclic RSV Inhibitors
Angela Luttick1, Bo Lin1, Craig Morton1, Simon Tucker1, Silas Bond1, Alistair Draffan1, John Lambert1, Chin-Yu Lim1, Jeff Mitchell1, Vanessa Sanford1, Mike McCarthy2, JoAnn Suzich2, Nita Patel2, Bettina Richter2
1Biota Holdings Limited; 2MedImmune Inc.



96. HIV Coreceptor Switch Induced by Antagonism to CCR5
Gemma Moncunill, Mercedes Armand-Ugón, Bonaventura Clotet, José A. Esté
Retrovirology Laboratory irsiCaixa, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, 08916 Badalona, Spain



97. Induction of IL-6 and IL-8 by siRNAs Targeting HIV Correceptor CCR5
Eduardo Pauls, Jordi Senserrich, Margarita Bofill, Bonaventura Clotet, Jose Esté
Retrovirology Laboratory irsiCaixa



98. Identification and Characterization of a Novel, Potent HCV Helicase Inhibitor
Junzhong Peng, Chunsheng Huang, Michael G. Murray, Zhuhui Huang
Southern Research Institute, Frederick, MD 21701, USA



99. Design, Synthesis and Anti-HIV Activity of Some Novel Isatin Derivatives
Periyasamy Selvam1, Narayanan Murugesh2, Markandavel Chandramohan3, Zeger Debyser4, Myriam Witvrouw4, Yves Engelborghs5
1Arulmigu Kalasalingam College of Pharmacy, Anand nagar, Krishnankoil 626190, India; 2Institute of Pharmacology, Madurai Medical College, Madurai 625020; 3Bharat Ratna Kamarajar Liver Hospital and Research Centre, Madurai 625001; 4Molecular Medicine, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven and IRC KULAK, Leuven, Flanders, Belgium; 5Laboratory for Biomolecular Dynamics, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Flanders, Belgium



100. HIV-1 Resistance to the Anti-HIV Activity of a siRNA Targeting Rev
Jordi Senserrich, Eduardo Pauls, Bonaventura Clotet, Jose A Esté
Retrovirology Laboratory irsiCaixa, Hospital Universitari Germans Trias i Pujol



101. Design and Cellular Kinetics of Dansyl-Labeled CADA Derivatives With Specific Anti-HIV and CD4 Receptor Down-Modulating Properties
Kurt Vermeire1, Andrea Lisco2, Jean-Charles Grivel2, Paul Blank2, Vincent Schram2, Noah Duffy3, Emily Scarbrough3, Kaka Dey3, Thomas Bell3, Leonid Margolis2, Dominique Schols1
1Rega Institute for Medical Research, Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; 2Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Biophysics, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA; 3Department of Chemistry, University of Nevada, Reno, NV 89557, USA



152. Anti-HBV Nucleotide Prodrug Analogs: Synthesis, Bioreversibility, and Cytotoxicity Studies
Seetharamaiyer Padmanabhan, John Coughlin, Guangrong Zhang, Cassandra Kirk, Radhakrishnan Iyer
Spring Bank Technologies, Inc., 113, Cedar Street, Suite S-7, Milford, MA 01757, USA
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Mini-symposium: Hepatitis C Virus: Translating Research to Medicine
Celebrity Ballroom EFGH
Chairs: Joseph M. Colacino, Ph.D. and Rohit Duggal, Ph.D.



08:30 Joseph Puglisi, Ph.D.
Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
“Translational control in HCV infection”



09:00 Thomas Michalak, Ph.D.
Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, Canada
“Hepatitis C Virus Lymphotropism and Occult Persistence”



09:30 Ann Kwong, Ph.D.
Vertex Pharmaceuticals, Cambridge, MA, USA
“Risk reduction in drug discovery: Telaprevir (VX-950) Preclinical Development”



10:00 Break



10:30 Anita Howe, Ph.D.
Wyeth Research, Collegeville, PA, USA
“Discovering Hepatitis C Polymerase Inhibitors”



11:00 John Tatlock, Ph.D.
Pfizer Global Research & Development, San Diego, CA, USA
“Discovery of Dihydropyrone-containing Hepatitis C NS5B Polymerase Inhibitors with Potent Antiviral Activity”



11:30 Dr. Tarek Hassanein, MD
University of California, San Diego, CA, USA
“Hepatitis C: The Current Epidemic”



12:00 General Panel Discussion



12:30 Adjourn.



Free afternoon and Palm Springs Tours
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Prusoff Young Investigator Award Lecture
Celebrity Ballroom EFGH
09:00 Presentation of Award: Christopher McGuigan, Ph.D., President ISAR
Awardee Lecture: Chris Meier, Ph.D., University of Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
“Prodrugs of antiviral nucleotides and phosphonates—the /cyclo/Sal-story”



Oral Session III: Herpesviruses I and Poxviruses I
Celebrity Ballroom EFGH
Chairs: Mark Prichard, Ph.D. and Mark Schleiss, MD
09:45 15. Synthesis and Structure–Activity Aspects of Some Cyclic Cidofovir Peptidomimetic Prodrugs
Larryn W. Peterson1, Boris A. Kashemirov1, Katarzyna M. Blazewska1, Julie Breitenback4, Kathy Borysko4, John C. Drach3,4, Jae Seung Kim2, Paul Kijek2, John M. Hilfinger2, Charles E. McKenna1
1Dept. of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA; 2TSRL, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI 48108 USA; 3College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109 USA; 4School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 49109, USA



10:00 16. Synthesis and Antiviral Activity of 1-(S)-[3-Hydroxy-2-(Phosphonomethoxy)Propyl]-5-Azacytosine and its Ester Prodrugs
Marcela Krecmerova1, Antonin Holy1, Alois Piskala1, Graciela Andrei2, Robert Snoeck2, Lieve Naesens2, Johan Neyts2, Jan Balzarini2, Erik De Clercq2
1Gilead Sciences & IOCB Research Centre, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic; 2Rega Institute for Medical Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium



10:15 17. In Vivo Antiviral Activity of 1-(S)-[3-Hydroxy-2-(Phosphonomethoxy)Propyl]-5-Azacytosine and its Cyclic Form
Graciela Andrei1, Marcela Krecmerová2, Antonín Holý2, Lieve Naesens1, Johan Neyts1, Jan Balzarini1, Erik De Clercq1, Robert Snoeck1
1Rega Institute for Medical Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Minderbroedersstraat 10, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium; 2Gilead Sciences & IOCB Research Centre, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Flemingovo nam. 2, 166 10 Prague 6, Czech Republic



10:30 Break



10:50 Invitation to the 21st ICAR, Montreal, Quebec, John A. Secrist, III



11:00 ISAR Business Meeting



11:15 18. Isolation and Characterization of an Helicase-Primase Inhibitor (HPI)-Resistant HSV-1 Mutant in Tissue Culture and a Mouse-Skin Model
Subhajit Biswas, Hugh Field
Cambridge University Centre for Veterinary Science



11:30 19. Evidence For In Vivo Inhibition of CMV Infection by the Quinazoline Class Protein Kinase Inhibitor Gefitinib
Mark Schleiss1, Michael McVoy2, Xiaohong Cui2, Yeon Choi1, Jodi Anderson1, Thomas Stamminger3, Bert Klebl4, Jan Eickhoff4, Manfred Marschall3
1Center for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Translational Research, Department of Pediatrics, Minneapolis, MN, USA; 2Virginia Commonwealth University, Department of Pediatrics, Richmond, VA, USA; 3Institute for Clinical and Molecular Virology, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany; 4GPC Biotech AG, Martinsried, Germany



11:45 20. Successful Treatment in the Monkeypox and Variola Primate Models of Smallpox by the Oral Drug ST-246
John Huggins1, Arthur Goff1, Mucker Eric1, Nancy Twenhafel1, Jennifer Chapman1, Mallory Tate2, Rob Jordan3, Tove’ Bolken3, Dennis Hruby3
1US Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases; 2Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; 3Siga Technologies Inc.



12:00 Lunch
Oral Session IV: Hepatitis Viruses I
Celebrity Ballroom EFGH
Chairs: Michael Murray, Ph.D. and Ann Kwong, Ph.D.
14:00 21. Design and Characterization of R1626, A Prodrug of the HCV Replication Inhibitor R1479 (4′-Azidocytidine) With Enhanced Oral Bioavailability
Klaus Klumpp1, David Smith1, Michael Brandl1, Tom Alfredson1, Keshab Sarma1, Mark Smith1, Isabel Najera1, Wen-Rong Jiang1, Sophie Le Pogam1, Vincent Leveque1, Han Ma1, Yaping Tu1, Rebecca Chan1, Chiao-Wen Chen1, Xiaoyang Wu1, Raj Birudaraj1, Steven Swallow1, Joseph A. Martin1, Nick Cammack1, Heather Berns1, Scott Fettner2, David Ipe1, Marie Mannino2, Edward O’Mara2, Carla Washington1, Stuart Roberts3, Graham Cooksley4, Greg Dore5, David Shaw6 David R Blue Jr1, Friederike Zahm7, George Hill1
1Roche Palo Alto LLC; 2F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Nutley, NJ, USA; 3Alfred Hospital, Melbourne, Vic., Australia; 4Royal Brisbane Hospital, Brisbane, Qld., Australia; 5Christchurch Clinical Study Trust, Christchurch, New Zealand; 6Royal Adelaide Hospital, Adelaide, SA, Australia; 7F. Hoffmann La Roche, Basel, Switzerland



14:15 22. Novel 4′-Azido-2′-Deoxy-Nucleoside Analogs Are Potent Inhibitors of NS5B-Dependent HCV Replication
David Smith1, Han Ma1, Sophie Le Pogam1, Vincent Leveque1, Carl Brown1, Nils Gunnar Johansson2, Genadiy Kalayanov2, Staffan Eriksson3, Elena Usova3, Christian Sund2, Anna Winqist2, Tatiana Maltseva2, Mark Smith1, Joseph Martin1, Isabel Najera1, Klaus Klumpp1
1Roche Palo Alto LLC; 2Medivir AB, Huddinge, Sweden; 3Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences, Dept. Mol. Biosciences, The Biomedical Centre, Uppsala, Sweden



14:30 23. Characterization of the Intracellular Metabolism of β-d-2′-Deoxy-2′-Fluoro-2′-C-Methyl-Cytidine and the Inhibition of HCV Polymerase NS5B by its 5′-Triphosphate Species
Han Ma, Wen-Rong Jiang, Nicole Robledo, Vincent Leveque, Samir Ali, David Smith, Mohammad Masjedizadeh, Teresa Lara-Jaime, Nick Cammack, Klaus Klumpp, Julian Symons
Roche Palo Alto LLC, Palo Alto, CA, USA



14:45 24. Sub Micromolar Inhibitors of HCV Generated from Inactive Nucleosides by Application of ProTide Technology
Christopher McGuigan1, Plinio Perrone1, Giovanna Luoni1, Mary Rose Kelleher1, Felice Daverio1, Annette Angell1, Sinead Mulready1, Costantino Congiatu1, Sonal Rajyaguru2, Joseph Martin2, Vincent Lévêque2, Sophie Le Pogam2, Isabel Najera2, Klaus Klumpp2, David Smith2
1Welsh School of Pharmacy, Cardiff University; 2Roche Palo Alto



15:00 25. GL59728: A Potent Allosteric Inhibitor of the HCV NS5b RNA Dependent RNA Polymerase With Excellent Pharmacokinetic Properties
Christopher Roberts, Janos Botyanszki, Dong-fang Shi, Joshua Gralapp, Samantha Koo-McCoy, John Zhang, Kevin Fung, Mohan Sivaraja, Jeffrey Pouliot, Ting Wang, Kevin Dunlop, Wenbao Li, Lillian Lou, Uli Schmitz, Peter Young, Ron Griffith
Genelabs Technologies, Inc. 505 Penobscot Dr., Redwood City, CA 94063, USA



15:15 26. Substituted Imidazopyridines As Potent Inhibitors of Hepatitis C Virus Replication that Target the Viral Polymerase
Inge Vliegen1, Jan Paeshuyse1, Laura S. Lehman2, Weidong Zhong2, Sofie Roofthooft1, Hélène Dutartre3, Barbara Selisko3, Bruno Canard3, Nina Boddeker2, Steven Bondy2, David Oare2, Erik De Clercq1, William A. Lee2, Gerhard Pürstinger4, Johan Neyts1
1Rega Institute, K.U.Leuven, Belgium; 2Gilead Sciences, Foster City, CA, USA; 3CNRS and Universités d’Aix-Marseille I et II, France; 4Universität Innsbruck, Austria



15:30 27. Potent HCV NS5B Polymerase Inhibitors Derived From 5-Hydroxy-3(2H)-Pyridazinones: Part 1. Exploration of Pyridazinone 4-Substituent Variation
Y. Zhou, L.-S. Li, S. Webber, P. Dragovich, D. Murphy, C. Tran, F. Ruebsam, A. Shah, M. Tsan, R. Showalter, J. Brooks, E. Okamoto, T. Nolan, D.A. Norris, L. Kirkovsky
Anadys Pharmaceuticals, Inc., San Diego, CA, USA



15:45 28. Development of Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) Chimeric Replicons for Identifying Broad Spectrum NS3 Protease Inhibitors
Joseph Binder, Selwyna Tetangco, Megan Wick, Karen Maegley, Laura Lingardo, Amy Patick, George Smith
Pfizer Global Research and Development (La Jolla, CA, USA)
Poster Session II: Herpesviruses, Poxviruses, other Antivirals and Medicinal Chemistry
Celebrity Ballroom ABCD
16:00–18:00
102. An Animal Model of HCMV Infection in SCID Mice
Fernando Bravo, Rhonda Cardin, David Bernstein
Division of Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA



103. Use of CpG DNA in Co-Administration With Cidofovir or Monoclonal Antibody as a Post Exposure Antiviral Therapy
Amanda Phelps1, Lin Eastaugh1, Art Kreig2, Amanda Gates1
1Dstl, Biomedical Sciences, Porton Down, Salisbury, WILTS, SP4 0JQ; 2Coley Pharmaceutical Group Ltd.



104. Efficacy of Oral CMX-001 Therapy Against Human Herpes Virus-6 Infections in SCID-hu Mice
Debra Quenelle1, Mark Prichard1, Shannon Daily1, Deborah Collins1, Terri Rice1, George Painter2, Alice Robertson2, Earl Kern1
1Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama School of Medicine; 2Chimerix, Inc.



105. Efficacy of Delayed Therapy Using Combinations of ST-246 with CMX-001 Against Systemic Cowpox Virus Infections in Mice
Debra Quenelle1, Mark Prichard1, Kathy Keith1, Deborah Collins1, Robert Jordan2, Dennis Hruby2, George Painter3, Alice Robertson3, Earl Kern1
1Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama School of Medicine; 2Siga Technologies, Inc.; 3Chimerix, Inc.



106. Design and Synthesis of Novel anti-HCMV Agents: Modifications to the Bicyclic Pyrimidine Base
Rina Adak1, Christopher McGuigan1, Robert Snoeck2, Graciella Andrei2, Eric De Clercq2, Jan Balzarini2
1Welsh School of Pharmacy, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK; 2Rega Institute for Medical Research, Leuven, Belgium



107. HINT as Putative Phosphoramidase Responsible of ProTides Activation: Molecular Modelling Studies
Costantino Congiatu, Christopher McGuigan, Andrea Brancale
The Welsh School of Pharmacy, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK



108. Design, Synthesis, and Biological Evaluation of Novel Anti-VZV Agents
Marco Derudas1, Christopher McGuigan1, Robert Snoeck2, Graciella Andrei2, Erik De Clercq2, Jan Balzarini2
1Welsh School of Pharmacy, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK; 2Rega Institute for Medical Research, Leuven, Belgium



109. Synthesis and Properties of Chiral Open-Ring Acyclic Nucleoside Bisphosphonates
Petra Doláková, Martin Dračínský, Antonín Holý
Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Flemingovo nam. 2, 166 10 Prague



110. Properties of Aminoacid Esters Linked to cyclo Sal-Pronucleotides
Henning Jessen1, Jan Balzarini2, Chris Meier1
1University of Hamburg, Institute of Organic Chemistry, Hamburg, Germany; 2Rega Institute for Medical Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium



111. Discovery of Cage Antiviral Agents
Yuri Klimochkin1, Eugene Boreko2, Andrey Shiryaev1, Igor Moiseev1, Eugene Golovin1, Marina Leonova1
1Samara State Technical University, 244 Molodogvardeyskaya St., 443100 Samara, Russia; 2Research Institute for Epidemiology & Microbiology, 23 Philimonova St., 220114 Minsk, Belarus



112. Pyrimidine Nucleosides Containing 5-Substituent: Synthesis and Antiviral Activity
Stanislav V. Korkach, Olga A. Valueva, Veronika V. Doubniakova, Vladimir A. Korshun, Alexey V. Ustinov
Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Moscow, Russia



113. New Ribonucleosides with Surrogate Bases: Synthesis, Enzymology, Molecular Docking Studies and Antiviral Activity
Vasu Nair1, Xiaohui Ma1, Fan Zhang1, Malik Nishonov1, Qingning Shu1, Robert Sidwell2, Earl Kern3
1Center for Drug Discovery and Department of Pharmaceutical and Biomedical Sciences, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602, USA; 2Institute of Antiviral Research, Utah State University, Logan, UT 84322, USA; 3University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35233, USA



114. Novel Synthetic Approaches to Cidofovir and Foscarnet Prodrugs
Larryn W. Peterson1, Boris A. Kashemirov1, Kanokkarn Saejueng1, Julie Breitenbach4, Kathy Borysko4, John C. Drach3,4, Jae Seung Kim2, Paul Kijek2, Stefanie Mitchell2, John M. Hilfinger2, Charles E. McKenna1
1Dept. of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA; 2TSRL, Inc., Ann Arbor, MI 48108, USA; 3College of Pharmacy, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; 4School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 49109, USA



115. Chloroquine a Novel and Versatile Anti viral Agent with nine prong modes of anti viral actions and postive approach in radical cure of viral hepatitis varieties B and C Both Acute and Chronic Forms
M. Chandramohan1, S.C Vivekanandan1, D. Sivakumar1, P. Selvam2
1Kamarajar Jaundice Liver Hospital & Research Centre, Madurai 625001,Tamilnadu, India; 2Arulmigu Kalasalingam College of Pharmacy, Krishnankoil, India



116. Brivudin (ZostexR) in the Treatment of Herpes Zoster in Immunosuppressed Patients
Astrid Meerbach1, Peter Wutzler1, Bernd Gruhn2
1Institute of Virology and Antiviral Therapy, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena; 2Department of Pediatrics, Friedrich-Schiller University Jena



117. Proteflasid as Inhibitor of EBV-Infection
N. Nesterova1, S. Zagorodnya1, G. Baranova1, A. Golovan1, V. Atamaniuk2, A. Novik2
1Institute of Microbiology and Virology, Ukrainian NAS, Kyiv, Ukraine; 2Ecopharm Research and Production Company, Kyiv, Ukraine



118. Enhanced Antiviral Actitity of Hexadecyloxypropyl-PME-N6-cyclopropyl-diaminopurine Against Herpesviruses, Hepatitis B Virus and Vaccinia Virus, In Vitro
Graciela Andrei1, Robert Snoeck1, Johan Neyts1, Erik De Clercq1, Nadejda Valiaeva2, James Beadle2, Karl Hostetler2
1Rega Institute for Medical Research, Leuven, Belgium; 2University of California, San Diego and the San Diego Veterans Medical Research Foundation, San Diego, CA, USA



119. Molecular Design of Active Antiherpetic Compounds Using Hierarchic QSAR Technology
A. Artemenko1, V. Kuz’min1,3, E. Muratov1,3, A. Fedchuk2, V. Lozitsky2, T. Gridina2, R. Lozytska1, S. Basok1, D. Chikhichin1
1A.V.Bogatsky Physico-Chemical Institute NAS of Ukraine, 86 Lustdorfskaya doroga, Odessa, Ukraine; 2Ukrainian I.I.Mechnikov Research Anti-Plague Institute, Odessa, Ukraine; 3Jackson State University, Jackson, MS, USA



120. Anti-orthopoxviral Activity of the 2-Cycloalkylimino-5-(4-Nitrophenyl)-1,3,4-Thiadiazines
Evgeny Belanov1, Larisa Sidorova2, Vladimir Rusinov2, Nikolay Bormotov1, Sergey Balakhnin1, Olga Serova1, Valerii Charushin2, Oleg Chupakhin2
1State Research Center of Virology and Biotechnology “Vector”, Koltsovo, Novosibirsk reg., Russia; 2Ural State Technical University, Yekaterinburg, Russia



121. Development of Novel Cell Lines for the Detection and Quantification of Herpesvirus Replication
Susan Binford, Amy Patick, George Smith
Pfizer Global Research and Development, La Jolla, CA, USA



122. Discovery of Novel Small Molecule Inhibitors of Dengue Virus Replication
Chelsea Byrd, Eric Stavale, Andrews Wieczorek, Thaun Tran, Dennis Hruby, Robert Jordan
SIGA Technologies, Corvallis, OR, USA



123. Antiviral Activities of New Cidofovir Analogs Against Camelpox Virus, Used As A Model of Variola Virus, in Human Skin Equivalent Cultures
Sophie Duraffour1,2, Robert Snoeck1, Joost Van Den Oord3, Marcela Krecmerová4, Antonín Holý4, Jean-Marc Crance2, Daniel Garin2, Erik De Clercq1, Graciela Andrei1
1Rega Institute for Medical Research, K.U. Leuven, Belgium; 2CRSSA, Grenoble, France; 3Pathology Dpt, K.U. Leuven, Belgium; 4Gilead Sciences & IOCB Research Centre, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Prague, Czech Republic



124. Cytopathic Maporal Hantavirus Infection of Vero E6 Cells
Brian Gowen1, Kie-Hoon Jung1, Michelle Mendenhall1, Irina Gavrilovskaya2, Siddharthan Venkatraman1, Erich Mackow2,3, Robert Sidwell1
1Institute for Antiviral Research, Utah State University; 2The Department of Medicine and the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, State University of New York at Stony Brook; 3Northport Veterans Administration Medical Center



125. Comparison of Anti-Proliferative Activity of Selected Antiviral Agents in Various Assay Systems
Caroll Hartline, Harden Emma, Earl Kern, Prichard Mark
Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama School of Medicine



126. Synthesis and Structure Activity Relationships among Non-nucleoside Analogs of Toyocamycin Active against Herpesviruses
Jack M. Hinkley1, Katherine Z. Borysko2, Julie M. Breitenbach2, Keenan Bora1, Shigetada Kosai1, John C. Drach1,2, Leroy B. Townsend1
1Department of Medicinal Chemistry, College of Pharmacy; 2Department of Biologic & Materials Sciences, School of Dentistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA



127. Combinations of CMX-001 and ST-246 Synergistically Inhibit Orthopoxvirus Replication In Vitro
Kathy Keith1, Earl Kern1, Shalisa Sanders1, Robin Conley1, Robert Jordan2, Dennis Hruby2, George Painter3, Mark Prichard1
1University of Alabama School of Medicine, Dept. of Pediatrics, Birmingham AL, USA; 2SIGA Technologies, Inc., Corvallis, OR, USA; 3Chimerix Inc., Research Triangle Park, NC, USA



128. Inhibition of Cellular Entry and Spread of Lymphocytic Choriomeningitis Virus by Amphipathic DNA Polymers
Andrew Lee1, Jillian Rojek1, Anette Gundersen1, Jean-Marc Juteau2, Michael Oldstone1,3, Andrew Vaillant2, Stefan Kunz1
1Molecular and Integrative Neurosciences Department (MIND), Scripps Research Institute; 2REPLICor Inc. Laval, Quebec, Canada; 3Department of Infectology, Scripps Research Institute



129. Benzimidazole with Broad Spectrum of Antiviral Action
Regina Lozytska1, Dmitry Chikhichin1, Victror Lozitsky1,3, Alla Fedchuk2, Victor Kuz’min1, Anatoly Artemenko1, Larisa Shitikova2, Lubov’ Mudrik2, Tatjana Gridina2, Eugene Muratov1,3
1A.V. Bogatsky Phys.-Chem. Institute, NAS of Ukraine; 2Ukrainian I.I.Mechnikov Research Anti-Plague Institute, Odessa, Ukraine; 3Jackson State University, Jackson, MS, USA



130. A Rapid DNA Hybridization Assay for the Evaluation of Antiviral Compounds Against Epstein-Barr Virus
Mark Prichard, Shannon Daily, Geraldine Jefferson, Amie Perry, Earl Kern
Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama School of Medicine



131. Design, Synthesis, Antiviral Activity and Cytotoxicity of Novel Sulphonamide Derivatives
P. Selvam1, D.F. Smee2, B.B. Gowen2, C.W. Day2, D.L. Barnard2, J.D. Morrey2
1Arulmigu Kalasalingam College of Pharmacy, Krishnankoil, India; 2Institute for Antiviral Research, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA



132. Inhibition of the Tax-Dependent Human T-Lymphotropic Virus Type 1 (HTLV-1) Replication in Persistently Infected Cells by the Naphthalene Derivative JTK-101
Xin Wang1, Minyi Shi1, Jun-ichi Fujisawa3, Yuetsu Tanaka4, Shuji Izumo2, Satoru Ikeda5, Masanori Baba1
1Division of Antiviral Chemotherapy, Center for Chronic Viral Diseases, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan; 2Division of Molecular Pathology, Center for Chronic Viral Diseases, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Kagoshima University, Kagoshima, Japan; 3Department of Microbiology, Kansai Medical University, Moriguchi, Japan; 4Department of Immunology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan; 5Japan Tobacco Inc., Osaka, Japan



133. Combinations of Thiovir and Neuraminidase Inhibitors Exert Synergistic Antiviral Activity on Human, Equine and Avian Influenza In Vitro
Shani Waninger, Silvestre Ramos, Joan Robbins
ADVENTRX Pharmaceuticals, San Diego, CA 92121, USA



135. Development of a Cell-Based Assay For Identification of Viral Entry Inhibitors Against SARS-CoV by High Throughput Screening (HTS)
Chengsheng Zhang1, Yan Feng1, Gillian Wong1, Liping Wang2, Jonathan Cechetto3, Jan Blanchard3, Eric Brown3, James Mahony1
1Department of Pathology & Molecular Medicine, McMaster University, Canada; 2Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA; 3Department of Biochemistry and High Throughput Screening Laboratory, McMaster University, Canada



136. The Inhibitory Effects of Medicinal Herbs on SARS-CoV Entry In Vitro
Min Zhuang1, Hong Jiang2, Peng Xiao1, Yasuhiro Suzuki1, Toshio Hattori1
1Division of Infectious and Respiratory Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Tohoku University, Japan; 2Institute of Laboratory Animal Science, Chinese Academy of Medical Science, Beijing, China



137. Uptake and Metabolism of Cidofovir and Oleyloxyethyl-cidofovir in Human Papillomavirus Positive ME-180 Human Cervical Cancer Cells
Kathy A. Aldern, James R. Beadle, Julissa Trahan, Karl Y. Hostetler
University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California and the Veterans Medical Research Foundation, San Diego, CA, USA



139. Selection of Human Cytomegalovirus Resistant to a Second Generation Methylenecyclopropane Purine
Katherine Z. Borysko1, Julie M. Breitenbach1, Brian G. Gentry1, Jiri Zemlicka2, John C. Drach1
1Department of Biologic & Materials Sciences, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; 2Karmanos Cancer Institute, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI 48201, USA



140. The Combination of Anti-Poxvirus Compounds ST-246 and TTP-018 are synergistic In Vitro
Yali Chen1, Chris Harver1, Guang Yang1, Dennis Hruby1, Robert Andrews2, Robert Jordan1
1SIGA Technologies, Corvallis, OR, USA; 2TransTech Pharaceuticals, High Point, NC, USA



141. Thiazolobenzimidazoles, a Novel Class of Enterovirus Inhibitors, Target the 2C Protein
Armando M. De Palma1, Ward Heggermont1, Erik De Clercq1, Alba Chimirri2, Johan Neyts1
1Rega Institute for Medical Research, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; 2Dipartimento Farmaco-Chimico, Università di Messina, Messina, Italy



142. Selective Phosphorylation of Antiviral Drugs by Vaccinia Virus Thymidine Kinase
Emma Harden1, Kathy Keith1, Mary Johnson1, Alexis McBrayer1, Ming Luo2, Shihong Qiu2, Debasish Chattopadhyay2, Xuesen Fan3, Paul Torrence3, Earl Kern1, Mark Prichard1
1Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama School of Medicine; 2Department of Microbiology, University of Alabama School of Medicine; 3Northern Arizona University



143. Intracellular Localization of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 1 Thymidine Kinase in Cells Infected With various Thymidine Kinase-Deficient Viruses
Chong-Kyo Lee, Ju Ryung Nam, Pan Kee Bae, Jee Hyun Kim, Hae Soo kim, Myung-Jin Lee
Pharmacology Research Center, Korea Research Institue of Chemical Technology



144. Substrate Specificity and Molecular Modelling of Feline Herpesvirus-1 Thymidine Kinase
Islam Mohammad1, Ricardo Nunez2, Laurence Tiley1, Hugh Field1
1Centre of Veterinary Science, Uiniversity of Cambridge, UK; 2Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge, UK



145. Chemical Stability and Intracellular Metabolism of 1-(S)-[3-Hydroxy-2-(Phosphonomethoxy)Propyl]-5-Azacytosine
Lieve Naesens1, Graciela Andrei1, Ivan Votruba2, Marcela Krecmerová2, Antonín Holý2, Jan Balzarini1, Erik De Clercq1, Robert Snoeck1
1Rega Institute for Medical Research, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Minderbroedersstraat 10, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium; 2Gilead Sciences & IOCB Research Centre, Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Flemingovo nam. 2, 166 10 Prague 6, Czech Republic



146. Influence of Substitutes in the Central Phenyl Ring of Capsid Function Inhibitors on Anti-Coxsackievirus B3 Stivity
Michaela Schmidtke1, Olga Riabova2, Vadim Makarov2, Peter Wutzler1
1Inst. of Virology and Antiviral Therapy, FSU, Jena, Germany; 2Research Center of Antibiotics, Moscow, Russia



147. Efficacy of 5-halogenated 2’-deoxyuridines on vaccinia virus thymidine kinase positive and negative strains, and influence of cell type on antiviral potency
Donald Smee, Daniel Humphreys, Brett Hurst, Robert Sidwell
Institute for Antiviral Research, Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA



148. Nucleosidic Fusion Inhibitors
M. St.Vincent1, S. Korkach2, O. Valueva2, V. Korshun2, A. Ustinov2, L. Schang1
1Biochemistry, University of Alberta, Canada; 2Shemyakin-Ovchinnikov Institute of Bioorganic Chemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia



149. Enhanced Potency and Efficacy of 29-mer shRNAs in Inhibition of enterovirus 71
Eng-Lee Tan1, May-Chin Tan2, Vincent Tak- Kwong Chow1, Chit-Laa Poh1
1Department of Microbiology, National University of Singapore, Singapore; 2Department of Biochemistry, National University of Singapore, Singapore



150. Crosstalk Between Scavenger Receptors (SR-A) and Toll-like Receptors (TLR) Results in Rapid Pro-Inflammatory Cytokine Differentiation in Monocytes Exposed to Cytomegalovirus (CMV)
Hooi Yew1, Christopher Harrison1,2
1Children's Mercy Hospital; 2University of Missouri School of Medicine-Kansas City



151. Solid-phase synthesis of the anti-HBV dinucleotide SB 9000—Microwave-assisted Functionalization of Solid Supports
Seetharamaiyer Padmanabhan, John Coughlin, Radhakrishnan Iyer
Spring Bank Technologies, Inc., 113, Cedar Street, Milford, MA 01757, USA
Thursday, May 3, 2007
Oral Session V: Hepatitis Viruses II, Herpesviruses II and Poxviruses II
Celebrity Ballroom EFGH
Chairs: Tomas Cihlar, Ph.D. and Rick Wagner, Ph.D.
08:30 Plenary Speaker
Christopher Aiken, Ph.D., Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN, USA
“Small Molecule Inhibition of HIV-1 Maturation”



09:00 29. The Cyclophilin Inhibitor Debio-025 is A Potent Inhibitor of Hepatitis C Virus Replication In Vitro With a Unique Resistance Profile
Lotte Coelmont1, Jan Paeshuyse1, Suzanne Kaptein1, Inge Vliegen1, Artur Kaul2, Erik De Clercq1, Brigitte Rosenwirth4, Pietro Scalfaro3, Raf Crabbé3, Ralf Bartenschlager2, Jean-Maurice Dumont3, Johan Neyts1
1Rega Institute, KULeuven, Belgium; 2University of Heidelberg, Germany; 3Debiopharm, Lausanne, Switzerland; 4Med Universitaet Wien, Austria



09:15 30. The Imidazopyrrolopyridine Analogue AG110 is A Novel, Highly Selective Inhibitor of Pestivirus Replication and Targets the Viral RNA-Dependent RNA Polymerase
Jan Paeshuyse1, Jean-Michel Chezal6, Matheus Froeyen1, Pieter Leyssen1, Hélène Dutartre3, Robert Vrancken2, Bruno Canard3, Carine Letellier2, Tong Li1, Harald Mittendorfer5, Frank Koenen2, Pierre Kerkhofs2, Erik De Clercq1, Piet Herdewijn1, Gerhard Puerstinger5, Alain Gueiffier4, Olivier Chavignon6, Jean-Claude Teulade6 and Johan Neyts1
1K.U.Leuven, Belgium; 2VAR/CODA, Belgium; 3AFMB-UMR 6098, France; 4University of Tours, France; 5University of Innsbruck, Austria; 6University of Auvergne, France



09:30 31. Nitazoxanide is an Effective Antiviral Agent Against Both HBV and HCV Replication In Vitro
Brent Korba1, Muller Abigail1, Ayers Marc2, Jean-François Rossignol2
1Dept. of Microbiology & Immunology, Georgetown Univ. Med. Ctr., Rockville, MD, USA; 2The Romark Institute for Medical Research, Tampa, FL, USA



09:45 32. Efficacy of Cationic Lipid-DNA Complexes (CLDC) on Hepatitis B Virus in Transgenic Mice
John D. Morrey1, Neil E. Motter1, Brandon Taro1, Fairman Jeffery2
1Institute for Antiviral Research, ADVS Depart., Utah State University, Logan, UT, USA; 2Juvaris BioTherapeutics, Inc., Pleasanton, CA, USA



10:00 Break



10:30 33. Mononuclear Cells as a Transfer Vehicle for Herpes Simplex Virus (HSV) or Vaccinia Virus (VV) Infection of Epithelial Cells Grown in 3D
Graciela Andrei1, Joost Van den Oord2, Erik De Clercq1, Robert Snoeck1
1Rega Institute for Medical Research, K.U.Leuven, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium; 2Laboratory of Morphology and Molecular Pathology, K.U. Leuven, B-3000 Leuven, Belgium



10:45 34. Structural Basis for the Expanded Substrate Specificity of Vaccinia Virus Thymidine Kinase: Insight from the Crystal Structure
Mark Prichard1, Kathy Keith1, Mary Johnson1, Norbert Schormann2, Alexandra Samal2, Debasish Chattopadhyay2,3, Earl Kern1
1Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama School of Medicine; 2Center for Biophysical Sciences & Engineering, University of Alabama School of Medicine; 3Department of Medicine, University of Alabama School of Medicine



11:00 35. Inhibition of an Innate Antiviral Response by Human Cytomegalovirus UL97 Kinase is Antagonized by Maribavir
Mark Prichard, Shannon Daily, Amie Perry, Caroll Hartline, Earl Kern
Department of Pediatrics, University of Alabama School of Medicine



11:15 36. Vaccination as an Antiviral Strategy for Control of Cytomegalovirus (CMV) Disease: A Vectored Vaccine Approach Targeting the UL83 (pp65) Homolog Protects Against Congenital CMV Disease in the Guinea Pig Model
Mark Schleiss1, Juan Lacayo1, Yasmine Belkaid2, Alistair McGregor1, Greg Stroup3, Jon Rayner4, Kim Alterson4, Jeff Chulay4, Jonathan Smith4
1Center for Infectious Diseases and Microbiology Translational Research, University of Minnesota, Department of Pediatrics, Minneapolis, MN, USA; 2Mucosal Immunology Unit, NIAID, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA; 3Meridian Biosciences, Cincinnati, OH, USA; 4AlphaVax, Research Triangle Park, NC, USA



11:30 37. JuvImmune is a Novel Vaccine Adjuvant that Enhances Protection of Mice from Lethal HSV-2 Infection Following Immunization
Jane Strasser1, Rhonda Cardin1, Claudia Chalk1, James Ireland1, Jeff Fairman2, David Bernstein1
1Division of Infectious Diseases, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA; 2Juvaris BioTherapeutics, Inc., Pleasanton, CA, USA



11:45 81. A Novel Class of Amphipathic DNA Polymers Inhibits Hepatitis C Virus Infection by Blocking Viral Entry
Takuya Matsumura1, Takanobu Kato1, Zonghi Hu1, Jean-Marc Juteau2, Andrew Vaillant2, Jake Liang1
1Liver Diseases Branch, NIDDK, NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA; 2REPLICor Inc. Laval, Quebec, Canada



12:00 Lunch
Oral Session VI: Other Viruses and Late Breaker Presentations
Celebrity Ballroom EFGH
Chairs: Brian Gowen, Ph.D. and Roger Ptak
13:30 38. Comparative Activity of Anti-Enteroviral Agents Against Poliovirus Replication In Vitro; Implications for the End Phase of the Polio Eradication Initiative
Armando M De Palma1, Gerhard Pürstinger2, Amy Patick3, Koen Andries4, Erik De Clercq1, Bart Rombaut5, Johan Neyts1
1Rega Institute for Medical Research, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium; 2Department of Pharmaceutical Chemistry, Institute of Pharmacy, University of Innsbruck, Austria; 3Department of Virology, Pfizer Global Research and Development, San Diego, CA, USA; 4Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical Research & Development, Beerse, Belgium; 5Department of Pharmaceutical Biotechnology and Molecular Biology, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium



13:45 39. Carbohydrate-Binding Agents (CBAs) Selectively Target the Glycoproteins of the HCV and HIV Envelope to Prevent Viral Entry
J. Balzarini1, C. Bertaux2, D. Daelemans1, M. Meertens2, E.G. Cornier2, J.F. Reinus3, W.J. Peumans4, E.J.M. Van Damme4, Y. Igarashi5, T. Oki6, D. Schols1, T. Dragic2
1Rega Institute for Medical Research, Leuven, Belgium; 2Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY; 3Montefiore Medical Center, Bronx, NY; 4UGent, Gent, Belgium; 5Toyama Prefectural University, Toyama, Japan; 6Keck School of Medicine, Los Angeles, CA, USA



14:00 40. In Vitro and In Vivo Activity of T-705 Against Arenavirus and Bunyavirus Infections
Kie-Hoon Jung1, Min-Hui Wong1, Yousuke Furuta2, Andrew Sanders1, Michelle Mendenhall1, Kevin Bailey1, Robert Sidwell1, Brian Gowen1
1Institute for Antiviral Research, Utah State University, Logan, Utah; 2Toyoma Chemical Co., Ltd., 3-2-5 Nishishinjuku, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo



14:15 41. QSAR Studies on [(Biphenyloxy)Propyl]Isoxazole Derivatives With Anti-Rhinovirus 2 Activity
E. Muratov1,2, V. Kuz’min1,2, A. Artemenko2, I. Volineckaya2, V. Makarov3, O. Riabova3, P. Wutzler4, M. Schmidtke4
1Jackson State University, Jackson, MS, USA; 2A.V. Bogatsky Physical-Chemical Institute NAS of Ukraine, Odessa, Ukraine; 3Research Center for Antibiotics, Moscow, Russia; 4Institute of Virology and Antiviral Therapy, Friedrich Schiller University, Jena, Germany



14:30 42. Antiviral Activity of (−)-Carbocyclic Cytosine [(−)-Carbodine] Against Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis Virus (VEEV) in a Mouse Model
Justin Julander1, Chung Chu2, Jagadeeshwar Rao2, Kristiina Shafer1, John Morrey1
1Institute for Antiviral Research, Utah State University; 2The University of Georgia College of Pharmacy



14:45 Late-breaker presentation



15:00 Late-breaker presentation



15:15 Late-breaker presentation



15:30 Adjournment of the 20th ICAR

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