Webinar: FAIR knowledge and data resources in the IMI AMR Accelerator (AMR Accelerator Members Only)

This webinar described the benefits of using FAIR approaches in data handling, where results from your studies are made Findable, Accessible, Interoperable and Reusable. The "ins and outs" of working with data were described and how teams can establish a streamlined analysis workflow in the projects. The group also demonstrated the GRIT42 software tool which […]

IMI AMR Accelerator Cross-Pillar Meeting (AMR Accelerator Members Only)

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Virtual closed meeting for IMI AMR Accelerator partners to get up to speed with the most novel developments from the Consortium's projects. About this Event IMI AMR Cross-Pillar Meeting (invitation only) This was an online meeting where partners were introduced to the AMR Accelerator projects and heard from Dr Timothy Rawson, Honorary Clinical Research Fellow, […]

Webinar: Animal infection models to study antibiotics against gram-negative bacteria (AMR Accelerator Members Only)

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This webinar provided an overview of animal infection models commonly used for studies of antibiotics against gram-negative bacteria. The webinar was driven by the COMBINE objective to harmonse and standardise a protocol for a mouse infection model used for efficacy and PKPD studies. The infection model was validated through well-characterised bacterial strains and control compounds […]

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

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 […]