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Amended Indian PPL slide / SUPERBUGS Act / Novo REPAIR Global Call

Dear All, Three bits of news you can use… First, when I wrote yesterday about the new Indian Priority Pathogen List (PPL), I said that it was similar to the WHO PPL list except for the addition of Staphylococcus epidermidis (and speculated that this relates to the role of S. epidermidis in neonatal sepsis). Well, it

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JPIAMR call: 25m Euro for interventions to reduce/prevent AMR

Dear All, JPIAMR is today launching an international call entitled “One Health interventions to prevent or reduce the development and transmission of AMR.” The call, with financial support from the European Commission, includes 30 funding organisations from 21 JPIAMR member countries and has a total estimated call budget of 24.9 million Euro. Here’s the description of

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CDC call for AMR-related proposals: 13 Jan 2021 deadline for white papers

Dear All, Just out is a Broad Agency Announcement (BAA 75D301-21-R-71738) from CDC with a 13 Jan 2021 deadline for white papers. The webpage for the BAA is here and you’ll need to look at the .pdf of the solicitation to understand all the possibilities. The AMR-related research areas include calls for proposals that would: Improve identification of bacteria

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NIAID Small Business Application Assistance Program seeks applications!

Dear All, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) put out a call on 22 Oct 2020 for applications for its Applicant Assistance Program (AAP). The AAP provides no cost support for US-based companies planning to apply for a Phase II, Fast Track, or Direct-to-Phase II Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or Small Business Technology

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Help Alan Carr with a point survey on COVID-19 vaccines!

Dear All, Once again, we’re going to have a brief change from our usual programming with this newsletter. I hope you recognize the name Alan Carr … he is an analyst at Needham & Company (https://www.needhamco.com/) who writes regularly on the antibacterial pipeline. Go here for the most recent (14 Aug 20) newsletter on his summaries:

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NHS England Antibiotic Procurement Pilot: Call for applications!

Dear All, As has been discussed in recent newsletters (link), the UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and NHS England launched a joint project July 2019 to test a payment model for antibiotic products, based on a product’s value to the NHS, rather than how much is used. This goal of the

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Novo REPAIR Impact Fund: Global call is open through 31 July 2020

Dear All, Sharpen your pencils! The Novo REPAIR Impact Fund has just opened its 2020 call for proposals. The focus is on: Pathogens: from the high-priority list of the World Health Organization and the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Therapies: first-in-class therapies have priority Modalities: small molecules, biologics and new modalities Phases: from the

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