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BARDA’s DRIVe is looking for you! Can you help them run a venture fund?

Dear All: I’ve written before about BARDA’s DRIVe initiative (Division of Research Innovation and Ventures, launched June 2018) that seeks to develop countermeasures for chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear threats, as well as for pandemic influenza and emerging infectious diseases. As a core part of this work, DRIVe Ventures seeks to link innovators and investors through creation of a VC-like

22 January 2019 No Comments

Scary, Scarier, Scariest: Achaogen / FT editorial / CBS “60 Minutes” on AMR

There is a follow-up to this note. Go here to read it. Dear All: I don’t like writing about doom and gloom, but a sequence of events in the past few days really drives home both the importance of the work we do to create new antibiotics as well as the fragile state of the ecosystem supporting

22 April 2019 No Comments

JPIAMR: Network proposal call; BARDA: DRIVe Accelerator call

Dear All: I trust you are now home after ECCMID in Madrid … it was an excellent meeting. Two new funding opportunities have recently crossed my radar: brief summaries and one key link for each are here with some further details below my signature. EU JPIAMR funding call: As part of its Virtual Research Institute

7 May 2018 No Comments

Scary, Scarier, Scariest (Part 2): What can YOU do about it?

Long note alert— apologies! Get a cup of coffee and settle in… Dear All: My 22 Apr 2019 note entitled Scary, Scarier, Scariest: Achaogen / FT editorial / CBS “60 Minutes” on AMR (link) caused a number of you to write expressing your related concerns and frustrations. Many thanks for those thoughts! A core theme in those

5 May 2019 No Comments

Clever pipeline visualization from Pew + New guidance documents from FDA

Dear All, Two very brief notes today… First, Pew Trusts continues to work to provide ways to understand the antibiotic pipeline. Building on their ongoing surveys (link), their latest contribution is a clever visualization tool that shows how antibiotics have moved forwards, backwards, and/or stopped during the period 2014-2018. Go here to see it in action and prepare to

5 August 2019 No Comments

The UK jumps in with a subscription model for antibiotics!

Dear All: We had hints back in January that this was coming (see this post), but now it is really happening! In brief, UK’s NHS will test the world’s first subscription-style payment model in which payments delinked from volume are used to incentivise pharmaceutical companies to develop new drugs for resistant infections. Below my signature, I’ve

9 July 2019 No Comments

NDM-1 in the Arctic / IACG seeks your views!

Dear All: Apologies for inundating with updates … the last few days have been very data rich! In case you missed it, McCann et al. (Env Internat, “Understanding drivers of antibiotic resistance genes in High Arctic soil ecosystems,” link) have found NDM-1, one of our more famous recent resistance genes, in the Arctic. As they state in their abstract, “The

30 January 2019 No Comments

Superb podcast series: From “We can treat your cancer but you’ll die of infection” to “Tracking AMR by analyzing airplane toilet waste”

Dear All, I previously wrote (link) about the first of Jason Gale‘s 4-part podcast series on AMR. The whole series is now out and definitely worth your time. Each podcast is about 30 minutes long … please set aside a bit of time to listen to all four! Here they are: #1: In a detailed look at

27 September 2019 No Comments

Start your engines! BARDA antibiotic procurement RFP / CARB-X 2019 funding round webinar

Dear All: Two things of note this afternoon… First, the previously noted BARDA RFP to acquire biothreat antibiotics is now posted here with submissions accepted through 21 June 2019: “Under this RFP, BARDA plans to support the procurement of antibiotic(s), which will either be delivered to the ASPR/SNS or maintained as VMI, using Project BioShield (PBS) funds. “PBS funds will also support

9 May 2019 No Comments

FDA in India / Longitude Prize events / NIAID seeks vaccines & therapeutics for AMR

Dear All: Here’s a potpourri today of several new entries in the forward meetings list below my signature. First, the US FDA will meet with CDSCO (Central Drugs Standard Control Organization, the Indian equivalent of FDA & EMA) in a workshop in Mumbai on 8 Mar. More details here! It’s great to see the global regulatory agencies continuing

26 February 2019 No Comments

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