Dear All, The Drug-Resistant Infections team at Wellcome Trust (link to their homepage) has launched a survey collecting data on current prescribing practices in low-, middle-, and high-income countries. The survey takes about 15 minutes and seeks answers to these questions: Does the WHO Pathogen Priority List (PPL, link), published in 2015, accurately reflect current pathogen
Dear All, BARDA is interested in hearing from antibiotic developers about antibiotics which could be used under Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) or marketing authorization for the treatment and/or PEP (post-exposure prophylaxis) of a biothreat indication, specifically: Y. pestis, F. tularensis, and/or B. pseudomallei. Here’s the core message from the pre-solicitation notice: Topline: “The U.S. Government
Dear All, I want to call your attention to the replay available on YouTube of the excellent 24 Sep 2020 webinar entitled “The global movement of microorganisms:Tracking the spread of difficult-to-treat infections.” Chair by Dame Sally, this 90-minute webinar (link) had 4 global speakers: (Geneva) Hanan Balkhy, Assistant Director-General, World Health Organization (Addis Ababa) John Nkengasong,
Dear All (with thanks to Kevin Outterson for leading this note), HUGE news today: Senator Michael F. Bennet and Senator Todd Young have introduced an updated PASTEUR Act that (if enacted) would create a predictable path to rewarding new #FireExtinguishersOfMedicine for their value to society via a subscription contract (valued at $750m to $3b) that prepays
Dear All, Once again, we’re going to have a brief change from our usual programming with this newsletter. I hope you recognize the name Alan Carr … he is an analyst at Needham & Company (https://www.needhamco.com/) who writes regularly on the antibacterial pipeline. Go here for the most recent (14 Aug 20) newsletter on his summaries:
Dear All (wonkish but intended for everybody to read and absorb): 27 Jan 2021 update: This topic now has its own YouTube video! As the ideas here are VERY confusing, I suggest you make the time to watch the video, read the newsletter, and then watch the video one more time. I have yet to
Dear All (lots and lots of wonkish detail here, be sure your blood caffeine level is adequate!), During the 24-28 Aug 2020 BEAM Alliance-sponsored AMR Conference (go here or see below my signature for more), I had the opportunity on 27 August to chat with Sumati Nambiar (FDA) and Marco Cavaleri (EMA) about ongoing regulatory activities. The
Dear All (and with thanks to Kevin for leading the charge on this newsletter), While listening to last week’s BEAM-sponsored AMR Conference (really a wonderful conference, thank you Team BEAM, go here to listen to the sessions), we tumbled onto a really, really disturbing trend: New antibiotics are not being registered or sold in Europe in
Dear All, IDSA (Infectious Diseases Society of America) have today released an eagerly awaited new guidance document on treating infections due to resistant Gram-negative bacteria (link). 8 Apr 2021 update: IDSA have published an updated version of this document. It excellent to see IDSA working steadily to provide up-to-the-minute advice! 24 Nov 2021 update: IDSA
Dear All, There’s a tidal wave of meetings for you to note! Some have already occurred but can easily be attended via webcast and others are coming. The detailed list is in the meetings calendar (below my signature) … here are highlights of the more recently added meetings: Fans of Dame Sally (i.e., all the
