Dear All: CDC have recently posted this eclectic mixture of funding opportunities that circle the globe!  Funding opportunity: CDC-RFA-CK-26-0107 Title: “Building National Partnerships for the Prevention of Emerging and Reemerging Infectious Diseases“ Brief description: Seeks to build capacity in the United States to prevent, detect, and respond to infectious disease threats by building and sustaining

Dear All: Without much fanfare, we have an announcement that PACCARB (the US Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria) is being revived at a 16 June 2026 virtual meeting! Here are the links you need: 19 May 2026 Federal Register notice DHHS webpage about the meeting Date and time: 16 June 2026, 12.30-3.30p ET

Dear All: I’ve just learned of a funding call from Wellcome Leap entitled “Focused antibiotics.” The thesis of the call is that the resistance arises (at least in part) when the gut microbiome is exposed incidentally to an antibiotic intended for an infection elsewhere in body (e.g., the lungs). So, this project seeks to support