Celebrated annually, the World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (WAAW) aims to increase awareness of global antimicrobial resistance and to encourage best practices among the general public, health workers and policy makers to avoid the further emergence and spread of drug-resistant infections.
On 19th November 2021, GARDP will be holding its next AMR Discussions webinar in which panellists will discuss what role industry, the public sector and not-for-profits can play in developing new treatments for drug-resistant infections. Speakers: Onyebuchi Chukwu, Former Minister of Health, Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, Alex Ekwueme Federal University Ndufu Alike, Nigeria Prabhavathi Fernandes, Formerly […]
The SCT, the SFM and sponsors invite you to an exciting two-day symposium entitled: On the hunt for next generation antimicrobial agents. This symposium will bring together some of the most influential researchers involved in these endeavours and should be of interest to a wide audience of basic scientists, medicinal chemists, doctors, and microbiologists. The […]
Kicking off the new year with new webinars, GARD-P continues its successful REVIVE series in 2022. For this webinar, the following speakers will be included: - Balasubramanian V, Co-Founder & COO, Bugworks Research Pvt. Ltd (India) - Valeria Gigante, Team Lead, One Health Research Priority-setting and Synergy, WHO (Switzerland) - Daniela Zinzi, Executive Director, Clinical […]
Kicking off the new year with new webinars, GARD-P continues its successful REVIVE series in 2022. For this webinar, the following speakers will be included: - Ranmini Kularatne, National Institute for Communicable Diseases (South Africa) - Saiq Mullick, University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa) - Francis Ndowa, International Union against STIs (Zimbabwe) - Catherine Martin, […]
After two years of digital AMR Conferences, we will finally meet each other in person for the 6th AMR Conference 2022 in Basel, Switzerland. Looking forward to see you there! Sign up for our AMR newsletter to stay updated about the status of further planning as well as other AMR-related news.
JPIAMR in partnership with the Medical Research Council (MRC UKRI) are hosting a workshop on antibiotic resistance, specifically looking for input from Early to Mid-Career Researchers. Antibiotic resistance is prevalent in bacterial infections across the world, threatening many of the fundamentals of modern medicine. A huge amount of work and funding has been focussed on […]
A 30-minute public webinar will be held on June 9, 2022 at 09:00 AM EDT with representatives from CARB-X, BARDA, Wellcome and NIAID to discuss the global health issues of AMR, and how CARB-X and its partners are working together to address them. The webinar celebrates a recent announcement in which BARDA and Wellcome have committed up to an additional […]
Vaccination programs are known to be effective to both promote the prudent use of antibiotics and to prevent the spread of AMR. JPIAMR, in partnership with the Medical Research Council and BactiVac Network, are holding a live webinar to identify opportunities and priorities for vaccine research from an immunological perspective to a wider translational context, in the field […]
The prosperity of the modern world is threatened by the emergence of drug resistant pathogens, pesticide-resistant insects and herbicide-resistant weeds. Novel investigational cancer drugs increase life expectancy, but fail when resistance develops. The same principles of evolution drive the development of resistance in all of these contexts, yet each field attacks the problem of resistance […]