An apple a day (used to) keep the doctor away
Dear All: OK … enough with bad news, at least for today. In today’s edition of XKCD (link), we learn about resistance to apples and
11 June 2019
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AMR stays on the G20’s to-do list with calls for Push and Pull mechanisms
Aside: Please look closely at the forward calendar. In addition to two new webinars from GARDP’s REVIVE project, there is a meeting in Thailand in December
5 July 2019
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Novo’s REPAIR Fund: Application Template Out (15 May Deadline) + Sr. Associate Job Opening
Dear All: The new Novo REPAIR impact fund ($165m over 5 years for antibacterials) is now open for applications — see the template at this link.
1 April 2018
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Commissioner Gottleib (New FDA initiatives, need for Pull incentives) + updated Pew pipeline analyses
Dear All: It was a HUGE day at the Pew Charitable Trusts today! First, Commissioner Scott Gottleib gave a superb and very exciting speech. You can
14 September 2018
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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
22 January 2019
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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
5 May 2019
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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
22 April 2019
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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
7 May 2018
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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
5 August 2019
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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,
30 January 2019
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