Online event: Keynote on AMR and TB by Peter Warn at COMBINE Annual Meeting (AMR Accelerator Members Only)

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December 3, 2020, 3.30PM-4.30PM CET Peter Warn is an experienced antimicrobial discovery scientist and consultant with a long and successful record of working in the anti-infective discovery industry. His expertise goes from antimicrobial development (antibacterial, anti-fungal, anti-parasitic and anti Mtb), including in vitro, and animal models from basic models through to PKPD and assisting in […]

Tools for working with sensitive and clinical data in the AMR Accelerator: Ethics; templates and software infrastructure (AMR Accelerator Members Only)

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The webinar covered processes for working with aggregated clinical data in the COMBINE consortium and AMR Accelerator. Firstly, the team outlined a set of procedures established for assessing the ethical status of data sets from external organisations. Then, the team described data formats and standards for working with clinical data sets uploaded into the GRIT42 […]

Expert Workshop on Vaccines for AMR Pathogens

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This workshop provided an open discussion forum to identify, propose and prioritise specific challenges, success and risk factors in the development of vaccines against nosocomial AMR pathogens. Participants included experts in clinical vaccine development from industry, academia and regulatory agencies, as well as experts in innovative clinical trial designs. General discussion topics covered pre-existing clinical […]

EXPERT WORKSHOP: Advancing towards a standardized murine model to evaluate treatments for AMR lung infections

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The COMBINE project is part of the IMI AMR Accelerator. One of the scientific aims of COMBINE is to improve and standardize the pneumonia animal model used in AMR research and to develop improved tools to reliably translate results in animals into results in humans. This workshop addressed the need for standard protocols to ease […]

WEBINAR: GNA NOW OPEN CALL

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This webinar provided a unique opportunity for the antibiotic community. The Innovative Medicines Initiative's GNA NOW Consortium was looking for a novel antibiotic compound to progress to a clinical candidate and informed participants about what was in it for interested candidates, and how to submit a proposal, among others. View the agenda and register now. […]

Introduction to tools to help expertise sharing and collaboration in the AMR Accelerator community (AMR Accelerator Members Only)

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  This webinar will cover the use of knowledge management tools in the IMI AMR Accelerator and how these can be used to both enhance data analysis workflows and also promote collaborations across projects and teams. To support these efforts the AMR Data Management group have developed a set of database and visualisation tools based […]

GNA NOW Open Call webinar II

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GNA NOW Open Call webinar II This webinar provided a unique opportunity for the antibiotic community. The Innovative Medicines Initiative’s GNA NOW Consortium was looking for a novel antibiotic compound to progress to a clinical candidate and informed participants about what was in it for interested candidates, and how to submit a proposal, among others.

Tuberculosis, a key research area of focus within the AMR Accelerator (AMR Accelerator Members Only)

Online

About twenty people attended this webinar which focused on TB research within the IMI AMR Accelerator. During the first part of this TB research focused webinar, Martin Boeree (UNITE4TB and Radboud UMC) introduced UNITE4TB, the newest member of the AMR Accelerator. The second part, given by Michel Pieren (BioVersys) and Alfonso Mendoza-Losana (ERA4TB and University […]

2nd IMI AMR Accelerator Annual Meeting

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The 2nd Annual meeting for the Cross-IMI AMR Accelerator community was held online on 28 September 2021 and brought together >160 members of the 8 AMR Accelerator projects. After an introduction by COMBINE, a round of project updates was organised with an official introduction of the newest project, UNITE4TB. Martin Boeree, UNITE4TB Project Coordinator, presented […]

UNITE4TB Webinar Global Panel discussion on global burden of TB

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Recap of the first UNITE4TB webinar: Panel discussion on global burden of TB On 03 March 2022, UNITE4TB held its first in a series of webinars being organized by project partners, Instituto de Saúde Pública da Universidade do Porto (ISPUP) and the European Respiratory Society (ERS). The session featured a presentation by Prof. Mario Raviglione […]