Dear All: The US Presidential Advisory Council on Combating Antimicrobial Resistant Bacteria (PACCARB) has released a request for information (RFI) in which it seeks comments on priority actions for the future. Here is the link to the Federal Register notice: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2018/11/23/2018-25435/notice-of-request-for-information-a-notice-by-the-presidential-advisory-council-on-combating In brief, PACCARB has pursued these 5 goals from the first US National Action

Dear All, Two time-limited opportunities have been announced in the past few days. First, the Novo REPAIR Impact Fund has opened its 2019 US-Canada-focused investment round. Non-confidential proposals are due by 11 Oct … go here for details. Note that you need to dig all the way to the bottom of the web page to find the information.

Dear All, BARDA is (yet again!) pushing the envelope with novel ways to support innovation. Their DRIVe group has just released an RFI in which they request input on their plans to create a VC-like mechanism through a third party to support innovation in the MCM (medical countermeasure) space. Go here for the complete RFI, but I’ll reproduce a