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Government ActionR&D Insight

The UK commits to a delinked antibiotic purchase model!

Dear All: Wow! It’s happened! As reported this morning in The Times and The Guardian among others, the UK will announce at Davos that ...
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Can you help?R&D Insight

BARDA’s DRIVe is looking for you! Can you help them run a venture fund?

Dear All: I’ve written before about BARDA’s DRIVe initiative (Division of Research Innovation and Ventures, launched June 2018) that seeks to develop ...
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FDAR&D Insight

FDA Guidance: Coordinating susceptibility (AST) device approval with drug approval

Dear All: FDA has now posted a final guidance entitled “Coordinated Development of Antimicrobial Drugs and Antimicrobial Susceptibility Test (AST) Devices” that ...
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Government ActionR&D Insight

Updated EMA antibacterial guidance: Draft released for public consultation

Dear All: Dated 19 Dec 2018 and marked as released for public consultation on 14 Jan 2019, EMA has posted ...
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R&D InsightSummaries

Categories of resistance: MDR, XDR, PDR, UDR, and (new!) DTR

Note: See also these related newsletters: 20 Feb 2020 (link) on DTR as part of the language of resistance and ...
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R&D Insight

Weekend reading: HABP-VABP study design; Overview of AMR initiatives

Dear All: Two papers (one with an editorial) that are worth your time. First, we have publication of the long-awaited FNIH ...
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Jobs

Two more cool jobs: UK (Dame Sally Davies’ office, 7 Jan deadline!!) and US Senate staff

Dear All: I spotted two more cool job opportunities just moments after sending the last newsletter! The first is with Dame Sally ...
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JobsWellcome Trust

Science Officer role at Wellcome Trust / Novartis adds data to Pew’s SPARK platform

Dear All: Greetings in the new year! Two things of general interest today: First, Wellcome Trust has posted an opening for ...
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R&D Insight

Ouch! Pfizer terminates S. aureus vaccine trial due futility (Part 3 of 3)

Addendum: This is the third in a 3-newsletters series on this topic. I need to do a specific newsletter on ...
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CDCR&D Insight

Initiatives for addressing AMR in the environment: Reports from a joint WT, CDC, and UK-SIN project

Dear All: The United Kingdom Science and Innovation Network (UK-SIN), the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US-CDC), ...
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JobsWHO

WHO Consultancy to support the IACG: 20 Dec 2019 deadline

Dear All: The UN Interagency Coordination on AMR Secretariat, hosted by the World Health Organization (WHO), is looking for a ...
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Jobs

Great job opportunity: Antibiotics Resistance Project Innovation Officer at the Pew Charitable Trusts

Dear All: The Pew Charitable Trusts are in search of an Innovation Officer to form and influence public policy by ...
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Government ActionR&D Insight

Lord O’Neill’s 10 steps to control AMR, two years on / G20 calls for action

Dear All: About two years ago, Lord Jim O’Neill led the UK AMR review to its 7th and final report and proposed these 10 steps as ...
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Jobs

Major job opportunity: Director, BARDA Division of Research, Innovation, and Ventures (DRIVe). Deadline 7 Dec 2019

Dear All: BARDA’s Division for Research, Innovation and Ventures (DRIVe) was established earlier this year with a mission to develop countermeasures to protect ...
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R&D Insight

Three $10k prizes for initiatives that improve access / create demand for diagnostics in LMICs

Dear All: Following the precept (often attributed to Osler, but I can’t find it in his Principles and Practice 1892) that ...
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R&D Insight

PACCARB wants to hear from you! Deadline, 7 Jan 2019

Dear All: The US Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antimicrobial Resistant Bacteria (PACCARB) has released a request for information (RFI) ...
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R&D Insight

Public opinion poll (US): 70%+ agree need for government intervention addressing AMR, including support for AMR R&D

Dear All: IDSA and Research!America have worked together to conduct a broadly representative opinion poll in the United States regarding ...
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R&D Insight

33,100 deaths in EU/EEA during 2015 attributable to resistant bacteria

Dear All: Cassini et al. have just published a truly scary paper. Here’s the bulk of the abstract … I can’t ...
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Government ActionR&D Insight

Two reports on the economics of AMR: UK Parliament, US National Academy of Science

Dear All: Two links to share today. First, we have a report to the UK House of Commons by their Health and Social ...
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FDAR&D Insight

FDA-approved surrogate endpoints for developers

Dear All: As requested by Congress as part of the 21st Century Cures Act, the US FDA has now released ...
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