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R&D Insight

Antimicrobial Effectiveness: The strategic economic value of antibiotics

Dear All (and with thanks to Lucy Naga for being the lead author on this economic-focused newsletter), Antimicrobials are the ...
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R&D Insight

WHO: New TPPs for antibacterial agents

Dear All, You may recall that in 2019-2020, WHO developed a set of TPPs (TPP = Target Product Profile = A ...
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R&D Insight

EMA: “Regulatory sandboxes” to explore approval pathways

Dear All, No, EMA has not decided to set up shop on the beach! Rather, the point of this newsletter is ...
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R&D Insight

CARB-X seeks new Chief of R&D (fully remote, worldwide)

Dear All, A very senior and globally significant leadership opportunity has appeared: CARB-X is seeking to recruit a new Chief of Research ...
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FDAR&D Insight

FDA: One pivotal trial (+ confirmatory evidence) is default expectation for approval

Dear All (a wonkish guide to something you may have thought was obvious AND with thanks to Aaron Dane for ...
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R&D Insight

Workshop on diagnostics: Can we drive use by making value visible?

Dear All (and with thanks to Robert Skov for co-authoring this newsletter AND with a wonkish alert for this complicated ...
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Government ActionPush/Pull

PASTEUR (v2.0) reintroduced in the US Congress!

Dear All, I’m delighted to be able to say that PASTEUR 2026 was (re)introduced into the US Congress this week! ...
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R&D Insight

The global funding pipeline, 2017-2023: A review

Dear All, In a thoughtful companion to WHO’s preclinical and clinical pipeline reviews, we now have an instructive analysis of ...
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R&D Insight

FDA RFPs: Susceptibility breakpoints and external controls for invasive fungal infections

Dear All, I just today learned that FDA has posted two antimicrobial resistance-related (AMR-related) FY 2026 funding opportunities. The titles ...
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R&D InsightWonkish

Two new oral drugs for gonorrhea!

Dear All (wonkish … but worth it … get ready to follow the links!), Greetings in the new year! As ...
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R&D Insight

CARB-X Novel Chemistry for AMR Challenge

Dear All, Happy New Year! As a great start for January, Team CARB-X have announced (i) that they will have two ...
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R&D InsightSomething Different

The threat of mirror bacteria: Ongoing conversations (2025 wrap-up)

Dear All, Regular readers will be aware of the global conversation now happening around the threat arising from the potential ...
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R&D Insight

Natural product-inspired antibiotics: 1943-2025

Dear All, In a paper that is clearly a labor of love (1,032 references!), Mark Butler and Robert Capon have ...
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Government ActionR&D Insight

Horizon Europe Work Programme 2026-2027: Calls of interest!

Dear All, Our colleagues in Europe have been busy! Along with yesterday’s announcement about transferrable exclusivity vouchers, we also had ...
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Government ActionPush/Pull

Pull incentives in Europe: TEVs to be included in legislative update

Dear All, There are more details yet to come, but the EU Council (“the Council”) and the EU Parliament (EP) ...
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R&D Insight

Help design GAMRIC 2026! Webinar on Tue 16 Dec

Note: As always, please use the copy of the newsletter posted at https://amr.solutions/ if you have trouble with links in this ...
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R&D Insight

Phage therapy: Further notes related to the recent TATFAR paper

Dear All, The 8 Dec 2025 newsletter entitled “Phage therapy: Regulatory perspectives from TATFAR” generated a fair bit of commentary! ...
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R&D Insight

Phage therapy: Regulatory perspectives from TATFAR

Dear All, Integrating perspectives from EC HERA, EMA, Health Canada, Norway, UK MHRA, US FDA, and US NIH, the Transatlantic ...
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R&D Insight

AMR in India: A possible global future unless we act now!

Dear All, On 26 Nov 2026, the Antimicrobial Resistance Surveillance & Research Initiative (AMRSRN) of the Indian Council on Medical Research ...
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R&D Insight

NIAID/DMID FY2027 concepts: Clinical networks (x2!), TB, Cocci, Malaria, MCMs

Dear All, Recently posted, six concepts were approved for FY 2027 funding at the September 2025 meeting of NIAID’s Division of Microbiology and ...
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