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Antibiotics are powerful drugs that prevent many deaths each year. Antibiotics are a precious global resource that must be managed on a sustainable ecological basis, akin to fisheries. But today, antibiotics are either managed in a haphazard fashion or mismanaged. An important task is to fix the broken economic Incentives. Source: Chatam House

This report describes NIAID´s (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) ongoing research portfolio of basic, translational, and clinical research in antimicrobial resistance and outlines a combination of innovative approaches based on the latest scientific advances to be pursued.These strategies draw on multidisciplinary parterships, which are essential for achieving a coordinated and nimble approach to addressing Antibacterial Resistance […]

The Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance is hosting its Strategic Research Agenda launch Conference – “Implementing a Global Research Agenda for AMR” – in Brussels on April 03, 2014. Conference Objectives: • To achieve wide recognition and awareness for the findings and roadmap of the SRA • To encourage uptake of the recommendations developed in the […]

Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) of French-speaking Belgium has joined the first JPIAMR transnational call and is making at least €0,2 million available. Belgium was represented from before by Research Foundation Flanders (FWO).

Call Open!

The Strategic Research Agenda has now been published. The core of the agenda is the identification and description of six priority topics (Priority Topic table): A. Development of novel antibiotics and alternatives for antibiotics – from  basic research to the market. B. Design strategies to improve treatment and prevention of infections by developing new diagnostics. C. Standardisation and extension […]

The report of the conference on Antimicrobial Resistance – Incentivizing Change Towards a Global Solution organized by Chatham House and the Centre on Global Health Security is now available online. Key aims that were addressed: What new efforts by governments and stakeholders in the developing and developed world are needed for global antimicrobial conservation? What obstacles […]

The first joint call features participation of 14 member countries, including newest addition Turkey.

The management board has accepted the final SRA draft as the official SRA of JPIAMR. After several years of work and a very intensive 2013, the SRA is now finalized and will be made public in early 2014. The final version considers all the comments and input from the autumn public and national consultations and […]

A conference organised by the European Commission on the European antimicrobial resistance (AMR) five year action plan and its future challenges is taking place in Brussels on 11 December 2013. The conference provides a platform to discuss this action plan at the mid-stage of its implementation, looking at the issue both from a human health […]