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).
Dear All: Sweden has been a steady supporter of work on incentives for antibiotics for over a decade – as a reminder, they hosted the 17 Sep 2009 workshop entitled “Innovative Incentives for Effective Antibacterials” that kick-started a conversation between the Swedish and US presidencies that, in turn, generated the momentum that propelled things like
Dear All, If you are a US citizen, you have an opportunity right now (as in today/tomorrow) to push for the inclusion of the DISARM Act in the COVID-19 bill(s) currently being circulated in Congress. As a reminder, DISARM is the legislation that would reimburse QIDP antimicrobials in the hospital setting outside of the DRG
Dear All, I promise that the next email will be all about the 25 Mar 2020 NHS England webinar on their antibiotic evaluation and procurement pilot (you’re going to love it … NICE and NHS England are doing great stuff … go here if you want to see a prior newsletter on this topic), BUT
Dear All, This email was just today received from the team leading the NHS England antibiotic procurement project (go here for a prior newsletter describing the project): Dear Stakeholders, In November 2019, we held a stakeholder webinar to share our response to the comments raised in targeted engagement and to outline proposals for the procurement process.
Dear All (moderately long note alert; be sure to note the new list of funding opportunities just below my signature), FDA have announced a public workshop on 5 Mar 2020 to discuss progress and challenges in the development and advancement of various animal models for serious infection. The Federal Register notice is here and registration is here.
Addendum: This is the first in a 3-newsletters series on this topic. Go here and here for the next two newsletters. Finally, the results of the STRIVE trial have been published as Hassanzadeh et al. in Clinical Infectious Diseases, ciad218, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciad218. Dear All: I just learned that FDA’s Vaccines and Related Biological Products Committee (VRBPAC) will meet at