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

    Online RI

    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

    Online RI

    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

    Online RI

    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

    Online

    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)

    Online

      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

    Online

    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

    Online

    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

    ONLINE WEBINAR RI

    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 […]

  • Webinar: Tuberculosis, current status update from ongoing research collaborations within the AMR Accelerator (AMR Accelerator Members Only)

    ONLINE WEBINAR RI

    About fifteen people attended this webinar which provided the most recent updates of ongoing TB research within the IMI AMR Accelerator. The following speakers addressed the challenges of their respective TB projects: Michael Hoelscher (Medical University München) who gave an update and intro to UNITE4TB; Santiago Ferrer-Bazaga (Universidad Carlos III Madrid) who discussed some challenges […]