Dear All (and with thanks to Kevin Outterson for co-authoring this newsletter), The recent discussions of the NICE/NHS England pilot subscription model (detailed newsletter plus follow-up FAQ newsletter) and a new paper by Chantal Morel and colleagues on the idea of an Antibiotic Susceptibility Bonus (ASB, link) bring to the fore the question of how to value any given
Dear All, Well, I think we can all agree that being grounded and shut away by COVID-19 is not exactly what any of us had in mind this spring! I certainly miss seeing everyone at the various events and I hope you are all keeping safe. But, staying home does offer a bit of time
Dear All, 3 Apr 2020 update: Significant additional details on the pilot were shared via a 29 Mar 2020 webinar (link to newsletter) and then a FAQ document (link to newsletter). The game is definitely afoot! The hoofbeats of the cavalry bringing us the UK NHS antibiotic subscription model are definitely getting louder! As you
Note that there is a follow-up newsletter that covers a post-webinar FAQ. After reading this newsletter as introduction, please go here for the follow-up newsletter. Dear All (and with thanks to Kevin Outterson for co-authoring this newsletter), Prior newsletters have covered the antibiotic evaluation procurement pilot being run by NICE and NHS England (go here for the
Dear All, Kevin Outterson and I recently shared our analysis of the NICE/NHS England pilot of an antibiotic procurement subscription model (link to that newsletter). The NICE/NHS team have now released a post-webinar FAQ document. Here is the link to the document … and I’ve also added the link to the initial webpage (cited just above) discussing
Dear All: I missed it personally, but by all reports the session on 3 June 2017 at ASM Microbe entitled “Development of New Drugs and Strategies for Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia Caused by MDR Pathogens” during ASM Microbe was an outstanding survey of this challenging area during which Shampa Das, Mike Dudley, and Sumati Nambiar gave great
Dear All, If there is a silver lining to the dark cloud of COVID-19, it’s that we’re all becoming very VERY skillful with internet-based collaboration tools: “to zoom” certainly seems destined to appear in future dictionaries as a synonym for meeting in this way! With that in mind, two recent notices merit sharing: First, the
Dear All, The G20-sponsored Global AMR R&D Hub (https://globalamrhub.org/) has recently published a call requesting proposals to estimate the market potential of four AMR-focused products. The call for tender is ID E47567917 and can be found at this link. The proposal requests bids to estimate the global market potential of these 4 types of products:
Dear All, Three things to share this afternoon. First, Alan Carr has published a newsletter (link) reporting the results from the COVID-19 survey we did as a group last week (go here for the 26 Mar 2020 newsletter about the survey). Approximately 150 individuals in 14 countries responded during 27-29 Mar. Time-to-peak cases was estimated at
Dear All (and with thanks to Kevin Outterson for co-authoring this newsletter): Wonkish and long note alert … top-up your coffee and settle in… We learned about a week ago that Tetraphase, despite having brought an antibacterial (eravacycline) to approval, has been sold for stock worth $14.4m (plus a potential $12.5m more if aggressive sales targets are achieved).