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7 Nov 2017 FDA VRBPAC: Pfizer’s S. aureus vaccine — do results in one population generalize?
Addendum: This is the second in a 3-newsletters series on this topic. Go here for the first newsletter and here …
Summary of funding initiatives (Simpkin et al.) + E9(R1) Statistical methods update (FDA)
Dear All: Two updates today. First, our colleagues at London School of Economics have just published a review of antibiotic innovation incentives that includes …
Incentives for antibiotics: Recent papers, with an emphasis on Pull
Dear All: For your weekend reading list, I have some papers on the topic of (mostly pull) incentives for antibiotics. …
CDC funds more than 20 AMR-focused projects!
Dear All: CDC has today announced $9m in funding for more than 20 new projects focused on slowing or combating antimicrobial resistance. …
7 Nov 2017 FDA VRBPAC: Clinical development plan for a S. aureus vaccine
Addendum: This is the first in a 3-newsletters series on this topic. Go here and here for the next two …
Preclinical pipeline overview / Help fund a movie about AMR!
Dear All: Two things today. First, Ursula Theuretzbacher, Miloje Savic, Christine Ardal, and Kevin Outterson have published in Nature Reviews Drug Discovery a brief …
16 Nov FDA AdComm – Inhaled ciprofloxacin for non-CF bronchiectasis
Dear All: A Federal Register notice has been released announcing a 16 Nov 2017 FDA Antimicrobial Drugs Advisory Committee meeting to review Bayer’s …
6 Nov 2017 BAARN (Boston Area Antimicrobial Resistance Network) + 7-8 Nov BARDA Industry Days
Dear All: Early November will be busy! First, BAARN is having their annual meeting in the Boston area on 6 Nov. See …
WHO Pipeline Review: “The world is running out of antibiotics”
Dear All: Released just a few hours ago in parallel with the UN General Assembly meetings, WHO has produced a …
International AMR Action! 21 Sep Wellcome Trust-UNGA event / 12-13 Oct Call to Action (Berlin)
Dear All: The international conversation continues apace following the recent DRIVE-AB meeting on antibiotic incentives. There are two further important meetings coming …
Incentives for antibiotics: Summary of DRIVE-AB / Slides from the 6-8 Sep 2017 ASM-ESCMID meeting
Dear All: I wrote twice last week with materials from the 5-8 Sep ASM-ESCMID conference (EMA-FDA-NICE updates and the CARB-X + GARDP …
Updates from EMA, FDA, and UK NICE at the 6-8 Sep 2017 ASM-ESCMID Antibiotic Development Conference
Dear All: On Wednesday 6 Sep at the ASM-ESCMID Conference on Antibacterial Development, we heard 3 superb back-to-back talks on the …
Summary, slides, & video from the CARB-X + GARDP Bootcamps, 5-8 Sep 2017 ASM-ESCMID Conference
This note was updated on 12 Jan 2018 to provide links to the videos from the bootcamp sessions. Dear All: …
New meetings & grants, with a focus on Vietnam, China, and the UK
Dear All: Below my signature, find details of 4 new meetings and (collectively) 4 active or upcoming grant opportunities. One …
PK measures in space and time: Summary of high-resolution methods
Dear All: I recently sent around discussions of ways to measure/estimate drug concentrations both in living animals (aptamer-based probes, Kevin Plaxco’s …
Superb PBS Newshour segment on agricultural use of antibiotics + McKeena’s Big Chicken book
Dear All: I wrote a few weeks ago about the Stopping Superbugs series from PBS Newshour. PBS has since then added some superb new …
Lessons in Discovery from Lynn Silver + Pro-con on alternatives to antibiotics
Dear All: “Good decisions come from experience, and experience comes from bad decisions … and paying attention.” You’ve probably heard …
High-resolution (effectively 3-D) drug concentration measurements in tissues
Dear All: I’m really not trying to flood your inbox with email, but when ideas surface I do like to …
Real-time continuous in vivo drug monitoring
Dear All: I recently became aware of a technology for real-time continuous in vivo monitoring of drug levels that I …
FDA Grand Rounds: The comprehensive in vitro proarrhythmia assay (CiPA) initiative
Dear All: Per an email received today, there will be an FDA Grand Rounds webcast on 14 Sep 2017 (noon-1p …
