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R&D Insight

Manufacturing underpins access in LMICs: An update on cefiderocol

Dear All, No one is safe until we’re all safe! In the 7 April 2025 newsletter on antibiotic access (“UNSLAP: You
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R&D Insight

Most current global summary of Pull incentives

Dear All, I was recently asked about a ready summary of the current state of play of Pull incentives around
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Government Action

Sign-on letter encouraging AMR funding in the FY2026 US budget

Dear All, If you represent a US-based organization with an interest in AMR, there is an opportunity to sign a
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Push/PullSomething Different

UNSLAP: You reach for the antibiotic … and it’s not there!

Dear All (with thanks to Louise for co-authoring and with a wonkish alert … settle in for the ride!), Today’s
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R&D Insight

Antibacterial R&D is very hard! Two great pipeline reviews + an Industry-level view

Dear All (and with thanks to Stephan Harbarth for co-authoring this newsletter), A new review by Ursula Theuretzbacher and colleagues
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R&D Insight

WHO pipeline reviews: Antifungal agents and fungal diagnostics

Dear All, As you know, WHO have been steadfastly producing both priority pathogens lists (PPLs) and pipeline reviews. My current
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R&D Insight

Now live: HERA’s call for rapid point-of-care susceptibility devices

Dear All, I wrote in the 19 Feb 2025 newsletter about HERA’s 13m EUR call for rapid point-of-care susceptibility devices. The
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R&D InsightWHO

Updates: CARB-X TPPs; Independent Panel for Evidence for Action against AMR

Dear All, Two quick updates this evening. First, you will recall that CARB-X have announced their initial 2025 funding round
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R&D Insight

Unexpected resistance: The tale of rifaximin and daptomycin

Dear All (and with thanks to Patricia Bradford for taking the lead on this newsletter): Today, this paper in Nature
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CARB-XR&D Insight

CARB-X announces its 2025 funding round

Dear All, At BEAM’s AMR Conference in Basel, Team CARB-X have today announced their 2025 funding round. Key points: Two
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Jobs

Ineos Oxford Institute for AMR seeks Director

Dear All, I have learned that the Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Research (IOI) has started a job search for
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R&D Insight

HERA: 13m EUR call for rapid point-of-care susceptibility devices

24 Mar 2025 update: The call is live! It’s entitled “Development of a Rapid Point-of-care Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing Diagnostic Medical
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R&D Insight

EMA: 16m EUR to fund regulatory science research

Dear All, EMA have recently posted a call for tenders under which they seek to “procure the services of research
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Government ActionR&D Insight

Sign-on Letter to Preserve Upcoming ACIP Meeting

Dear All, The Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) is scheduled to meet 26-28 Feb 2025 (see links below my signature
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Government Action

ESCMID 2025: Science Policy Forum and Pipeline Day events

Dear All, If you are attending ESCMID Global in Vienna this year, mark your calendar for two major events. I
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R&D Insight

Gates/Novo Nordisk/Wellcome Grand Challenge: Gr-ADI, the Gram-Negative Antibiotic Discovery Innovator

Dear All, A huge announcement today backed by the combined power of the Gates Foundation, Novo Nordisk, and Wellcome! I
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Government ActionR&D Insight

Jan 2025 PACCARB meeting cancelled as new administration takes the reins

Dear All, Sadly, I must report that the 27th meeting of PACCARB (the US Presidential Advisory Council on Combatting Antibiotic-Resistant
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R&D Insight

NOHF-Zoonoses, NARMS, and more: US action on One Health, Surveillance, and much more

Dear All, Three things for today along with some great acronyms! To start, we have an announcement of the first
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Government ActionPush/Pull

Italy delivers a national pull incentive (with a budget of EUR 100 million a year)!

Dear All (and with thanks to Damiano for taking the lead on this newsletter), We start the new year with good
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R&D Insight

WHO-GARDP: Policy interventions for (mostly acute) antibiotic shortages

Dear All, I wrote in the 1 Dec 2024 newsletter about the excellent paper by Baraldi et al. that introduced
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