Dear All, To start your week, we have three tidbits for consideration. First, results from a trial entitled “Colistin versus meropenem in the empirical treatment of ventilator-associated pneumonia (Magic Bullet study): an investigator-driven, open-label, randomized, noninferiority controlled trial” have been published (Critical Care 23:383, 2019, link). Cisneros et al. sought to enroll 496 subjects into this trial but

Dear All: Early November will be busy! First, BAARN is having their annual meeting in the Boston area on 6 Nov. See below a note from Michael Gilmore with details. If you are in Boston on that day, I highly recommend this meeting as a superb scientific event & networking opportunity. Second, you can then go from BAARN to

Dear All: Two papers (one with an editorial) that are worth your time. First, we have publication of the long-awaited FNIH (Foundations for the NIH) paper on trial designs for studies of HABP-VABP (Hospital-Associated Bacterial Pneumonia and Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia). The paper also comes with an editorial: Talbot, G. H., A. Das, S. Cush, A. Dane, M.

Dear All: In 2014, NIAID set out a 5-year strategic framework for research on Antimicrobial Resistance (download it here). That document laid out these 7 areas for intensive efforts to combat AMR: Systems Biology and Antibacterial Resistance: New Directions for Drug Discovery–Using a holistic approach to examine molecular networks of host-pathogen interactions and global changes in response to

Dear All: The Novo REPAIR Impact Fund is open for its second round of EU-based proposals! Four projects have been funded to date by this $165m project. Could you be among the next?  Initial non-confidential proposals are due 10 May 2019. The broad scope is Discovery through Phase 1 for projects focused on therapeutics to address antibacterial resistance.