Dear All, I learned today from our colleagues at WHO that Alphafold has recently added the proteome of nearly all the WHO priority pathogens to their library of highly accurate prediction of protein structures. Alphafold was new to me and is amazing! Per our colleagues at WHO: AlphaFold is an AI system developed by DeepMind that
Dear All, Whew … still catching up after all the activities of World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW)! More to follow on some of that great content, but for today we have the news that FDA has posted 4 RFPs! All have due dates of 21 Jan 2022: Optimizing dosing strategies for obese patients and in continuous
Dear All, The US Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness & Response (ASPR) is looking for comments on the 2023-2026 National Health Security Strategy (NHSS). They would like input from stakeholders in public health, healthcare, emergency management, national security, non-governmental organizations, academia, and private industry. Their specific questions to consider are: What are the most critical national health
Dear All, WHO are looking for multidisciplinary university groups or other scientific institutions to support the development of a One Health Priority Research Agenda on AMR! Per the RFP on the UN website (https://www.ungm.org/Public/Notice/146908), the terms of reference include scientific and methodological support for the following activities: Review of the grey literature and policy analysis of
Dear All, Building on the success of the 21st Century Cures Act passed in 2016 and springboarding from a concept paper published in Science, U.S. Reps. Diana DeGette, D-Colorado, and Fred Upton, R-Michigan, have today introduced the 21st Century Cures Act v2.0! Here are the links you need: Discussion draft of the Cures 2.0 bill Cures 2.0
Dear All, Explaining AMR to our colleagues is not easy! I wrote in a 30 Oct 2019 newsletter about what Wellcome Trust learned on this point when they interviewed 12,000 people in Germany, India, Japan, Kenya, the UK, the USA and Thailand — in brief, there are universal themes that improve the likelihood that your message will
Dear All, On the theme of global health security, today’s note covers 3 exciting, overlapping items. Here we go… First, the G7 leaders have agreed to sign the Carbis Bay Declaration covering global health, economic stability, climate and more. Specifically related to health in a section entitled “End the pandemic and prepare for the future”, we have
Dear All (and note the related 29 Apr 2021 newsletter), As was discussed at length in the recent Wellcome Trust-sponsored analysis of the AMR-related needs for the coming decades (see this newsletter), it is critical that we build and maintain momentum around AMR-focused work. As a big part of that revolves around being visible in
Note: Newsletter now updated to include the communique from the G7 Finance Ministers! Dear All, The G7 met in Oxford this past week and we now have communiques released from by both the Health and Finance Ministers. Let’s look first at the two fascinating statements from the Health Ministers: A general communique that includes multiple
Dear All (and with thanks to Kevin Outterson for co-authoring this newsletter), Woot, woot! Woot, woot! US Senators Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) and Todd Young (R-Ind.) and Representatives Mike Doyle (D-Pa.) and Drew Ferguson (R-Ga.) have today reintroduced the PASTEUR (Pioneering Antimicrobial Subscriptions to End Up surging Resistance) Act! Here are the links you need: The text of