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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Vivli’s 2025 AMR Surveillance Data Challenge
Dear All, We’ve previously discussed the availability of large surveillance datasets from the Vivli AMR Register. In particular, you should review Patricia ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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-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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