Dear All, Two items for your attention today: an immediate action for you to take to support PASTEUR plus a launch event for a major Wellcome Trust project for your calendar. First, as you may recall, the Oversights & Investigations Subcommittee of the US House Energy & Commerce Committee recently held a hearing about the impact of AMR.
This newsletter is part of a series — here are the links to Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, (this one is Part 4), and Part 5. You might also enjoy the discussion of AI-supported discovery in this May 2026 video from Nature. Dear All, We had fun in Feb 2020 discussing whether an antibacterial compound discovered using machine learning
Dear All, As a follow up to the glorious cacophony of the events occurring right at the end of April, Kevin Outterson and I made time to discuss all that has happened. The PASTEUR Act reintroduced, the AMR House Subcommittee hearing, the European Commission proposals, the CARB-X Annual Report, FDA approval of the first microbiome-based therapeutic …
Dear All, It’s been a busy 48 hours .. three (and a half) things for you! First up, you will find notes below my signature on today’s “Antimicrobial Resistance: Examining an Emerging Public Health Threat” hearing in the US House of Representatives. The recording of today’s hearing is now available on YouTube. It was a fabulous 2 hours
Dear All, I want to call your attention to next week’s AMDAC (Antimicrobial Drugs Advisory Committee) for rezafungin. This meeting is Tue 24 Jan 2023, 9a-4.30p ET and the meeting materials are provided here. Rezafungin is an antifungal but please don’t let that dissuade you from attending: this AMDAC promises to be an important discussion
Dear All, The high-value webinars below have just crossed my radar. First up, we have a very important 2-part webinar on pediatric antibacterial drug development entitled “Improving the Investigation of New Antibacterial Agents for Use in Children: Ensuring That Our Youngest Patients Also Benefit from Innovative Treatments of Infections Caused by Multi-Drug Resistant Bacteria.” Here are the
Dear All, First up for today, WHO’s GLASS (Global Antimicrobial Resistance and Use Surveillance System) have released an update to their ongoing work that provides global data through 2020. Here the links you need: The GLASS dashboard The GLASS report An insightful LinkedIn post on the way(s) that the data can now be used: you
Dear All (and with thanks to Kevin Outterson for being lead author on this newsletter), (wonkish alert on this one … refresh your coffee and dig in!) Bonnifield and Towse of the Center for Global Development have released a blog post and a paper estimating the potential impact of the PASTEUR Act. Here’s what you need:
Dear All, Based on a 2020 RFP, we’ve known that WHO was building a fungal priority pathogen list (PPL). Well, now the list has been released. Here’s what you need to understand the new PPL: Webpage where you can get the report My PowerPoint .pptx that summarizes all the PPLs to date My webpage that provides
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