Dear All, New on the meetings calendar today is the 10 Jan 2021 UCSF-Stanford Innovations in Regulatory Science Summit. Per the meeting website: “It is a gathering of leaders in the academia, industry and regulatory sectors to discuss the role of regulatory science in medical product development. “The 2021 Summit will have a major focus on
Dear All: Happy New Year! I hope everyone was able to take a least a brief break over the holidays. Two things for today. First, there are two meetings in January and one in February that have just popped onto my radar. See the meetings calendar for a pair of Keystone Symposia on the microbiome,
Dear All, Breaking news! Prior newsletters (initial and follow-up) have discussed the UK’s innovative antibiotic subscription pilot (aka, “Netflix for antibiotics”). In brief, the UK intends to identify two innovative antibiotics suitable for being purchased via a delinked model in which the payment to the innovator is a fixed annual fee rather than a per-use
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
Dear All, The US Department of Defense (DoD) is offering funds through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program for a “Novel Antibiotic for the Treatment of Multidrug-Resistant Pseudomonas Aeruginosa Infections.” Antibody, phage, and vaccine approaches are out of scope and the business must be located in the United States. To find the funding offer, navigate
Dear All, Howard Bauchner, the editor-in-chief of JAMA, regularly does 30-minute Q&A podcasts. Today’s Q&A was with Tony Fauci and is a superb review of current state of play. Yes, he is ready to get the vaccine and is going to be vaccinated in public! Go here to listen. For more, below my signature you
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
Dear All, I know we are all really, really tired of COVID but it certainly is not tired of us! The recent news on the vaccine front is exciting, but my personal guess is that we’re unlikely to see large-scale gatherings until late in 2021 … it’s just going to take time to get everybody
Dear All, Today we have a bit of a potpourri for WAAW (World Antibiotic Awareness Week). Lots of good stuff… In the new meetings category, we have two meetings for investors seeking social impact: 23 Nov 2020 (online, 6-7p CET): Webinar sponsored by Access to Medicine Foundation (ATM) entitled “The Materiality of Superbugs: Investor Action
Dear All, Today we have two hopeful signs from our younger colleagues about the future of AMR! First Global AMR Youth SummitThe World Health Students’ Alliance (WHSA) has announced a 3-day virtual event (20-22 Nov 2020, see details below) where “youth around the world come together to discuss, learn, and get empowered about various AMR-related