John’s Top Recurring Meetings
Virtual meetings are easy to attend, but regular attendance at annual in-person events is the key to building your network and gaining deeper insight. My personal favorites for such in-person meetings are below. Of particular value for developers are the AMR Conference and the ASM-ESCMID conference. Hope to see you there!

• 25-26 February 2025 (Basel, Switzerland): The 9th AMR Conference 2025. Go here to register! 
• 11-15 April 2025 (Vienna, Austria): ESCMID Global 2025, the annual meeting of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. Go here for details. 
• (September-ish, no date as yet) 2025 ASM/ESCMID Joint Conference on Drug Development to Meet the Challenge of Antimicrobial Resistance. Go here to see details of the outstanding 2024 meeting!
• 19-22 Oct 2025 (Georgia, USA): IDWeek 2025, the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Details pending; go here for the general meeting website.

  Upcoming meetings of interest to the AMR community:

• 20-22 Feb 2025 (Melbourne, Australia): 12th Annual Meeting of the Australian Society for Antimicrobials. Go here for details and to register.
• 25-26 Feb 2025 (Basel, Switzerland): The 9th AMR Conference 2025. See list of Top Recurring meetings, above.
• 27 Feb 2025 (virtual, 1700-1830 CET / 1100-1230 EST): GARDP REVIVE webinar entitled “In vitro and in vivo correlations for prediction of human pharmacokinetics and dose of antimicrobials.” Go here to register.
• [NEW] 3 Mar 2025 (Virtual, 12-1p CET / 6-7a ET): WHO-GARDP webinar entitled “Policy and regulatory interventions to address antibiotic shortages in low and middle-income countries.” Go here to register. This webinar will be the official launch of the WHO-GARDP report of the same name with a discussion of measures being undertaken to address antibiotic shortages. For background on this, see the 1 Dec 2024 newsletter for a discussion of the paper by Baraldi et al. on possible meanings of Lack of Access and as well the 13 Dec 2024 newsletter about WHO-GARDP report.
• 11-15 April 2025 (Vienna, Austria): ESCMID Global 2025, the annual meeting of the European Society for Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. See Recurring Meetings list, above.
  • [NEW] During ESCMID, mark your calendar for the Science Policy forum during which we’ll have follow-up from UNGA 2024  (11 April, 3-8p CEST) and Pipeline Monday (14 April) during which we’ll have a variety of sessions on the antimicrobial pipeline. See also the 13 Feb 2025 newsletter for details and commentary.
  • [NEW] I’ve also learned of a 14 April (12.15-1.15p, Hall 8) symposium on mechanisms to expand access to antibiotics. To find this one, you have to go the general program and navigate to Hall 8 at 12.15p. Awkward, but a direct link is not possible due the design of the ESCMID webpage.
    
• 30 June – 1 July (in person and virtual, Grand Hyatt, Washington DC): BARDA Industry Days 2025 (BID2025) with the theme “Enhancing Health Security With a Sustainable Future.” This is a major annual opportunity to interact with BARDA and ASPR teams and thereby identify potential areas of collaboration in the field of MCM (medical countermeasure) research and development. Go here for details.
• 19-22 Oct 2025 (Georgia, USA): IDWeek 2025, the annual meeting of the Infectious Diseases Society 
• 11-15 April 2025 (Vienna, Austria): ESCMID Global 2025. See list of Top Recurring meetings, above.
• 30 June-1 July 2025 (virtual and in Washington, DC): BID2025: BARDA Industry Days — Enhancing Health Security With a Sustainable Future.  BID provides the opportunity to discuss U.S. government medical countermeasure (MCM) priorities, provide the private sector an informal opportunity to interact with BARDA and ASPR teams, and identify potential areas of collaboration in the field of MCM research and development. Go here for details.
• 19-22 Oct 2025 (Georgia, USA): IDWeek 2025. See list of Top Recurring meetings, above.
• 11-19 Oct 2025 (Annecy, France, residential in-person program): ICARe (Interdisciplinary Course on Antibiotics and Resistance) … and 2025 will be the 9th year for this program. Patrice Courvalin orchestrates content with the support of an all-star scientific committee and faculty. The resulting soup-to-nuts training covers all aspects of antimicrobials, is very intense, and routinely gets rave reviews! Seating is limited, so mark your calendars now if you are interested. Applications should open ~March 2025 — go here for more details.

 Noteworthy self-paced courses and training materials (this is a new section — comments or builds would be appreciated!):

• OpenWHO: “Antimicrobial Resistance in the environment: key concepts and interventions.” Per the webpage for the course, it will teach you “…why addressing AMR in the environment is essential and gain insights into how action can be taken to prevent and control AMR in the environment at the national level.” This course builds on WHO’s 2024 Guidance on wastewater and solid waste management for manufacturing of antibiotics. For further reading, see also the 25 Sep 2023 newsletter entitled “Manufacturing underpins both access and stewardship: Cefiderocol as a case study” and the 28 Jan 2024 newsletter entitled “EMA Concept Paper: Guidance on manufacturing of phage products”.