Source: Chatham House
Category: News and press
Overcoming Resistance
In the face of bacterial threats that can evade modern medicines, researchers are trying every trick in the book to develop new, effective antibiotics.
Source: TheScientist
Media coverage for the SRA launch conference in Brussels. Read more here
Media coverage during the SRA launch conference in Brussels 3 april resulted in the articles in the links below.
SRA Launch Conference concluded
The launch conference for the Strategic Research Agenda was held on April 3 in Brussels. Representation from funding agencies from every continent in addition to researchers and industry representatives made it a highly interesting day. We would like to thank all speakers and participants for contributing to a successful launch!
Press release: SRA conference, April 3 in Brussels. PDF download here.
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Antibiotic Resistance: 10 questions and answers
Source: Forskning.se
Save lives – Clean your hands global campaign. More information here
SAVE LIVES: Clean Your Hands. WHO global campaign on May 5th. The focus of the 2014 call is the role of hand hygiene in reducing the spread of AMR. Among the activities, WHO is inviting health-care facilities to participate in two global surveys: http://www.who.int/gpsc/5may/global-surveys/en/
Call closed
The InnovaResistance call for pre-proposals is now closed. Full proposal invitations will be communicated in late May.
New Steering Committee composition
The JPIAMR Steering Committe members for the forthcoming two years are: Mats Ulfendahl (Swe), Ghada Zoubiane (UK), Martin Steinbakk (Nor), Bülent Genç (Ger), Lene Cividanes (Den), and Martijntje Bakker (NL).
We thank Carlos Segovia, Laurent Gutmann, Peter Taylor and Waleria Hryniewicz for their Steering Committee work and welcome the new members to two exciting and productive years!
Estonia joins JPIAMR as observer
We are delighted to announce that Estonia has joined JPIAMR in the capacity of observer. We look forward to future interactions with the Estonian authorities and research community.
