Dear All, Please mark your calendar now to be in the Washington, DC area on 18-19 Nov 2019 for a 2-day workshop at FDA’s White Oak Campus focused on enhancing the clinical trial enterprise for antibacterial drug development. Jointly co-sponsored by FDA, IDSA, NIAID, and Pew Trusts, this meeting will have a particular focus on (a)
Dear All, Apologies for the delay, but I’ve held off on this note until the majority of the presentations from the 3-6 Sep 2019 ASM-ESCMID meeting (Boston) were online. You can now access the program, most of the presentations, and the meeting abstracts here. It was a wonderful meeting with over 400 attendees. And, please be sure
Dear All, World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) was such a mad scramble! So many events … just no way to attend everything. Some of the highlights in and around WAAW (not everything was precisely within the WAAW dates, thank goodness!) for me were: Andrew Jack and the team at FT (Financial Times) have released an
Dear All: There are days when I have the feeling of drinking from a fire hose … and this is one of them! Multiple interesting new events have crossed my radar in the past 48 hours with topics that span AMR Awareness (two events in Geneva next week!), CNS infections (Rockville, MD), an EMA info-day
Dear All: I don’t mean to inundate your inbox (this is my 3rd email this week!), but these two things have just hit my inbox and one of them has very tight timing: First, I previously wrote about job opportunities with BARDA’s new DRIVe initiative. With the goal of revolutionizing the way we prevent, detect, and respond to major health security threats,
Dear All: I wrote previously about the Duke-Margolis workshop done in collaboration with FDA on the challenges of developing non-traditional antimicrobial products. We’re now back from that workshop and I can report that it was excellent. We covered an array of strategies for non-traditional products and heard an exceptional series of company case vignettes. I’ll say that
Dear All: Following hard on the heels of yesterday’s note about the 14 June 2018 Duke-Margolis workshop on development of non-traditional products, we now have a notice regarding a 21-22 Aug FDA workshop on that same topic! The meeting will be on FDA’s White Oak Campus from 8.30a-4.30p (21 Aug) and 8.30a-noon (22 Aug). From the notice: “The purpose
Dear All: Sponsored by NIH (NIAID, NINDS, NHLBI, NCATS) and DoD (DTRA), a 2-day workshop on CNS infections and ways to penetrate the blood-brain barrier has just been announced for 21-22 Aug 2018. Full details are found online at http://www.cvent.com/d/wgq9j7. The preliminary agenda online looks fascinating and shows planned discussions of viral encephalitis (e.g., West Nile),
Dear All: (18 June addendum: the materials from the meeting are now posted!) First, planning continues apace for the 14 June Duke-Margolis workshop on non-traditional products. There is now a link for registration, confirmation that the event is going to be webcast, and a draft agenda. Mark your calendar now to attend either in person or via the webcast! Second, I would like to
Dear All, As suggested by the subject line, this newsletter is a bit of a mish-mash of time-critical news about meetings and opportunities! The main thing is to look closely at the funding and meeting summaries below my signature for NEW items. Here are a few highlights: Do you recall IDSA’s scary 2004 hypothetical scenario
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