Dear All, See also this related newsletter: 14 Jul 2022, entitled “WHO Vaccine Pipeline Review; CDC On Impact Of COVID On AMR.” As part of their Immunization Agenda 2030: A Global Strategy to Leave No One Behind, WHO have now published an AMR-focused action framework that summarizes ways we should seek to use vaccines both
Dear All: Late last year, I had the opportunity to hear a presentation on antibiotic R&D in Japan by Norio Ohmagari. Based in Tokyo at the National Center for Global Health and Medicine Hospital (link), Norio is Director of its (i) AMR Clinical Reference Center, (ii) Disease Control and Prevention Center, and (iii) WHO Collaborating
Dear All, A quick note today to call your attention to an upcoming webinar that will be of wide interest. Substantial new details have been added to the online agenda materials for the 30 August 2022 (virtual, 8.30a-5.00p ET) webinar sponsored by CDC and FDA entitled “Drug Development Considerations for the Prevention of Healthcare-Associated Infections.” This is very
Dear All: I have learned that the program for IDWeek 2022 will have specific dedicated pipeline sessions for therapeutics and diagnostics. The online details are relatively scant, but my understanding is that the therapeutics of interest for these sessions include antibacterials, antifungals, and non-HIV, non-COVID antiviral agents. There do not appear to be any constraints
Dear All, We have a 3-part discussion today on the theme of “I want a new drug … so how do I find it?” Off we go! First, the 14 June 2022 newsletter entitled “Leaky Pipe(lines) / When Is A Molecule A Drug” generated further discussions that are worth sharing: It was noted the microdosing
Dear All, I was fascinated by this recent paper in AAC: Neha K. Prasad, Ian B. Seiple, Ryan T. Cirz, and Oren S. Rosenberg. Leaks in the Pipeline: a Failure Analysis of Gram-Negative Antibiotic Development from 2010 to 2020. Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2022 May 17;66(5):e0005422. doi:10.1128/aac.00054-22. (Addendum: This newsletter has a follow-up newsletter.) In brief,
Dear All, Last fall, the team at ATMF (Access to Medicine Foundation) released the 3rd update to the AMR Benchmark series and Damiano de Felice was a guest author for a newsletter about the findings. That report offered a wealth of granular data, in-depth analyses and revealing graphs about what pharmaceutical companies in the global antibiotic and
Dear All, Post-newsletter addendum: I’ve learned that USDA will host a 10 Aug 2022 (virtual, 10a-4.30p ET) workshop on AMR in food agriculture. See the meetings calendar for more details; go here to register. I’ll confess to having missed entirely the request back in February 2022 from FDA’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM) for comments on antimicrobial
Dear All, A Notice of Special Interest (a “NOSI” in NIH jargon; here’s the link: NOT-ES-22-006) from the NIH could be something of interest for AMR R&D. This NOSI has > 10 of the Institutes behind it and as summarized on the website “this NOSI encourages applications that address the impact of climate change on health
Dear All (Wonkish alert! Get some coffee and settle in!), Almost in parallel, EMA and FDA have released updates to key antibacterial guidance documents! Here are the links you’ll need and I’ve highlighted the key documents. To go deeper, you’ll need to pick through everything and I provide a tour further below in this newsletter: EMA’s
