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How the sausage is made: A day of advocacy for PASTEUR

Dear All, Along with more than 50 others, I spent Tuesday 12 Sep 2023 on Capitol Hill visiting offices of members of Congress (Senate and House) seeking support for the PASTEUR Act. If you’re a regular reader, you’ll know that we now have substantial bipartisan support for PASTEUR: it was re-introduced as The Pioneering Antimicrobial

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CARB-X funding rounds! / The Mold That Changed The World at IDWeek!

Please note that a very interesting Quality Improvement RFP has been added to the current funding opportunities listing with an application cut-off of 6 Oct … apologies for the late posting!  Dear All, First up, CARB-X has at long last announced new funding rounds! As you’ll recall, CARB-X was recently funded for another 10 years by BARDA and Wellcome

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JPIAMR Diagnostics Call / James Bond’s occupational exposures

Dear All, A short one today! Please peruse both the funding opportunities and upcoming meetings just below my signature. Of special note: Building on the call in the recent biodefense-focused BAA from NIAID for diagnostic applications, JPIAMR is also looking for diagnostic applications (7 Mar deadline). Very interesting 2 Mar 2023 Duke-Margolis webinar entitled “Data Capture

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NIAID BAA – Biodefense focus / Fireside Chat on diagnostics and more

Dear All, We are swimming in Broad Agency Announcements aka BAAs! As a refresher, I recently shared a BAA from the CDC and one from BARDA — now we have another one from NIAID! There’s a strong biodefense angle here with lots of scope. Key details of each opportunity are as follows and I highly recommend you check

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Fireside Chat with AMR Action Fund CIO Martin Heidecker

Dear All, Ahead of World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, I sat down with AMR Action Fund Chief Investment Officer Martin Heidecker for a Fireside Chat. It was a fabulous conversation that covered everything from how the Fund’s investment process works to what it’s looking for in portfolio companies to broader investment trends in the AMR space.  As

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High Watermark for Pull Incentives (and more): Reflections on an amazing week!

Dear All, As a follow up to the glorious cacophony of the events occurring right at the end of April, Kevin Outterson and I made time to discuss all that has happened. The PASTEUR Act reintroduced, the AMR House Subcommittee hearing, the European Commission proposals, the CARB-X Annual Report, FDA approval of the first microbiome-based therapeutic …

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AI-based drug discovery: Chemical vs. drugs (Part 4)

Dear All, We had fun in Feb 2020 discussing whether an antibacterial compound discovered using machine learning was a drug or just a chemical. Building on that conversation, the lab that wrote the original report has a new paper about identification of a narrow-spectrum compound with activity vs. Acinetobacter baumannii. Here are the links you’ll

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Antibiograms: Polishing a cloudy crystal ball

Dear All, A recent paper by Hasegawa et al. and a multi-paper supplement, both in Clinical Infectious Diseases, combine to provide an interesting message. First, the paper by Hasegawa and colleagues. I’ve taken the title of this newsletter from an accompanying editorial by MacDougall who opens his commentary with “If there is one thing infectious

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$50-100k grants to address socioeconomic outcome disparities due to AMR-related factors

Dear All, I was fascinated to see Mayo Clinic’s Global Bridges Healthcare Alliance release an RFP on 21 Oct entitled “Antimicrobial Stewardship (AMS) Programs to Address Health Inequities arising from Socioeconomic Disparities in USA, Europe, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand.” The RFP is supported by a grant from Pfizer and seeks to “… solicit programs that have

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