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R&D Insight

Australia calls for Subscription (“Netflix”) models: Report and podcast

Dear All, With thanks to alert reader Liam Sharkey, a post-doc in Melbourne, for the heads-up on this topic, I am ...
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R&D Insight

Global livestock resistome: Antibiotic resistance is widespread!

Dear All (and with thanks to Lance Price for co-authoring this deeply wonkish newsletter), Today we turn to the idea ...
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R&D Insight

$ Impact of AMR in your country: Interactive web tool!

Dear All, The 27 Sep 2024 newsletter (“Without action, AMR costs go from $66b to $159b/yr by 2050”) reviewed a ...
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Government ActionJobs

MHRA Seeks Chief Medical and Scientific Officer

Dear All, I have learned that UK’s MHRA (Medicines & Healthcare products Regulatory Agency) is recruiting for the role of Chief ...
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R&D InsightWHO

WHO: Draft TPPs for MDR bacterial infections

Dear All, Back in 2019-2020, WHO developed a set of TPPs (TPP = Target Product Profile = A description of the ...
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Push/Pull

Italy initiates its national pull Incentive!

Dear All (and with thanks to Damiano for taking the lead on this newsletter), We wrote previously in (i) the 7 ...
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R&D Insight

BARDA RFP: Antibiotic for HABP/VABP or Bloodstream Infection

Dear All, BARDA have published an RFP (Request for Proposals) under which it would support clinical development and then stockpiling ...
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R&D InsightSomething Different

Vaccination to prevent AMR: Insights from Wellcome

Dear All (and with thanks to Vega Masignani for co-authoring this newsletter), Waaaay back in 2019 (pre-COVID … remember that?), ...
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R&D Insight

The threat of mirror bacteria: Ongoing conversations

Dear All, I wrote in a 12 Dec 2024 newsletter (“Mirror Bacteria: An AMR threat of unprecedented magnitude”) about the ...
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FDAR&D Insight

Updated FDA Q&A on Antibacterials for Unmet Medical Need

Dear All, An updated version of FDA’s very helpful Q&A entitled “Antibacterial Therapies for Patients With an Unmet Medical Need ...
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Government ActionPush/Pull

UNGA 2024 action: Establishing an Independent Panel on Evidence for Action (IPEA)

Dear All, Referring back to the actions planned following the 2024 UNGA HLM on AMR (UN General Assembly High-Level Meeting ...
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Government ActionPush/Pull

Pull incentives in Europe: Next legislative steps

Dear All (Deeply wonkish alert! Settle in! Great stuff here!): For today, we have a deep dive into the ongoing ...
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R&D Insight

Extending STEDI to diagnostics: STRIDES

Dear All (and with thanks to Betsy Trainor for co-authoring), The idea of the STEDI values of an antibiotic (its ...
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Government ActionR&D Insight

MHRA compilation of regulatory guidance on phage products

Dear All, Attention phage developers — the UK MHRA have compiled all their regulatory guidance for phage into one convenient ...
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Government ActionSomething Different

D-Day: Churchill (1944) → WHO Pandemic Agreement and the Hamburg Statement (2025)

Dear All, D-Day and the momentous Normandy landings were 81 years ago today. In a marvelous new article on bbc.com (and ...
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R&D Insight

FDA Listening Sessions for CEOs, CMOs, or heads of R&D

Dear All, Pushing this one out as a direct quote from the online materials posted yesterday by FDA. Looks interesting! All ...
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R&D Insight

IDWeek 2025: Present your novel antimicrobial or diagnostic

Dear All, As in previous years  (27 Mar 2024 newsletter), IDWeek 2025 will feature pipeline-focused sessions for both antimicrobials and ...
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Something Different

Vaccine development: Polytheism vs. Monotheism

Dear All (and with a wonkish alert!), The idea of more (and better) vaccines to prevent (or even be part ...
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R&D InsightSomething Different

Impact of AMR on cancer therapy

Dear All (unapologetically wonkish … very important material!), Let’s set the scene today by considering two quotes: Prosaic: “The successful ...
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R&D Insight

Evolving the idea of DTR (Difficult-to-Treat Resistance) to include antibiotic access

Dear All (wonkish alert … lots of details here … take your time and absorb it all!), I’ve written several ...
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