Scientific Interest Group (SIG) Meeting: From data to discovery: Exploring use cases for machine learning model on antibacterial specificity (AMR Accelerator Members only)
2024-01-29 12:00 - 13:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Online

Antimicrobial Chemotherapy Conference: Free Online Conference
2024-02-06 - 2024-02-07 | Online
ERA4TB’s Diana Angelica Aguilar Ayala from Universidad de Zaragoza will give an oral presentation titled “Unveiling Overlooked Critical Parameters in the Hollow Fiber System for Tuberculosis Studies: Impact on Moxifloxacin Pharmacokinetics/Pharmacodynamics” on 07/02 at 14:50 GMT+1. More information here.

Webinar: How ERA4TB is advancing TB research: imaging, information systems, and computer modelling
2024-02-22 14:00 - 15:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Online
Click here to register.

5th AMR Accelerator Cross-project Meeting (AMR Accelerator Members Only)
2024-03-05 | Basel, Switzerland
The 5th AMR Accelerator Cross-project Meeting for the AMR Accelerator community, a total of 9 projects, will take place on 05 Mach 2024 at the Hyperion Hotel in Basel, Switzerland.

Scientific Interest Group (SIG) Meeting: AI tools for identification of of antibacterial compounds at the hit identification stage (AMR Accelerator Members only)
2024-03-05 13:00 - 14:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Basel, Switzerland
Download the meeting flyer here

Scientific Interest Group (SIG) Meeting: Navigating the regulatory landscape - from global influences to local engagement
2024-03-05 13:00 - 14:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Basel, Switzerland

Scientific Interest Group (SIG) Meeting: Use of mice models in AMR research
2024-03-05 13:00 - 14:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Basel, Switzerland

8th AMR Conference: Novel Antimicrobials & AMR Diagnostics
2024-03-06 - 2024-03-07 | Congress Center Basel, Messeplatz 21, Basel, 4058, Switzerland
More information here.

COMBINE Webinar on Developing Target Product Profiles for Antibiotics
2024-03-15 14:30 - 16:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Online
Recording available here:

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Innovative Approaches in Antibacterial Research and Development to Fight the Antibiotic Resistance Crisis
2024-03-17 - 2024-03-22 | Ventura Beach Marriott, 2055 Harbor Boulevard, Ventura, CA, United States

WORLD HEALTH SUMMIT: Regional Meeting
2024-04-22 - 2024-04-24 | Melbourne, Australia, Melbourne, Australia

ECCMID 2024
2024-04-27 - 2024-04-30 | Barcelona, Spain, Barcelona, Spain
Final project data from AB-Direct will be presented at this conference! More information here.

Multi-stakeholder Hearing on Antimicrobial Resistance
2024-05-15 10:00 - 17:00 (America/New_York) | UN, New York, USA, NY, United States
The multi-stakeholder hearing will provide an opportunity for stakeholders to contribute to the ongoing preparatory process for the high-level meeting on AMR. Participants will exchange views on key priorities for the high-level meeting and its political declaration while exploring key challenges and potential solutions needed for effectively addressing AMR at the national, regional, and global levels.
More information and registration here.
The deadline to register is 24 April 2024 at 12 pm ET.

Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly
2024-05-27 - 2024-06-01 | WHO, Geneva
The Seventy-seventh World Health Assembly is being held in Geneva, Switzerland, on 27 May – 1 June 2024.
This year’s Health Assembly theme is: All for Health, Health for All. Proceedings will be webcast live from this web page. Simultaneous interpretation will be available in Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

Uppsala Antibotic Days 2024
2024-05-28 - 2024-05-29 | Uppsala, Sweden, Uppsala University Main Building, Biskopsgatan 3, Uppsala, 753 10, Sweden
COMBINE will present a poster on communicating about animal research in antibiotics drug development. More information about the event here.

COMBINE Webinar
2024-06-18 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Online
Download the webinar flyer and agenda in PDF format.

32nd PAGE Meeting
2024-06-26 - 2024-06-28 | Rome, Rome, Italy
The COMBINE project will present an update of their work on a translational semi-mechanistic pharmacokinetic-pharmacodynamic framework to design animal studies.

ASM/ESCMID Joint Conference on Drug Development to Meet the Challenge of Antimicrobial Resistance
2024-09-17 - 2024-09-20 | Porto, Portugal, Porto, Portugal

GNA NOW Expert Meeting on Antibiotics for Severe Enteric Infections
2024-09-17 10:00 - 12:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Porto, Portugal, Porto, Portugal
In collaboration with CARB-X, GNA NOW hosts an Expert Meeting focused on developing a Target Product Profile (TPP) for antibiotics to treat severe enteric infections in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). The meeting follows the GNA NOW Annual Meeting on 16 September and precedes another prominent event in the AMR space—the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases (ESCMID) Conference, which will run from 17th to 20 September.
The Expert Meeting will engage specialists in defining a TPP for antibiotics targeting bacterial enteric infections, specifically E. coli, Shigella, Salmonella, and Campylobacter, which are major health concerns in LMICs, particularly among young children. The two-hour session will feature a panel discussion and active audience participation, ensuring a comprehensive and inclusive approach to TPP development. The aim is for the outcomes of the Expert Meeting to be summarised and disseminated through a scientific publication.
Erin Duffy of CARB-X will chair the session with the panellists:
• Valeria Gigante (WHO)
• Seamus O’Brien (GARDP)
• Dorothy Yeboah-Manu (NMIMR, University of Ghana)
• David Paterson (Saw Swee Hock School of Public Health, Singapore)
• Samuel Mungai Kariuki (DNDi, Kenya)
• Joseph (Herb) Harwell (Clinton Health Access Initiative)
Read more and view the event agenda.

High Level Meeting of the General Assembly of the United Nations on AMR
2024-09-26 | UN, New York, USA, NY, United States
More information to be published here: https://www.un.org/en/ga/info/meetings/78schedule.shtml

WORLD HEALTH SUMMIT
2024-10-13 - 2024-10-15 | Berlin, Germany, Berlin, Germany
The World Health Summit is a unique international strategic forum for global health. It brings together stakeholders from politics, science, the private sector and civil society from around the world to set the agenda for a healthier future by inspiring innovative solutions for better health and wellbeing for all.
Register now!

5th COMBINE Annual Meeting
2024-10-28 - 2024-10-29 | GSK, PTM Severo Ochoa 2, Tres Cantos, Madrid, 28760, Spain
The 5th Annual Meeting for the COMBINE consortium will take place on October 28th-29th, hosted by GSK at Tres Cantos, Spain.

COMBINE + ERA4TB Webinar on Engaging with Regulators: European Medicines Agency
2024-11-06 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Online
Time: November 6, 15:00 – 16:30 CEST
Speakers: Radu Botgros, M.D., Senior Scientific Officer for the Office of Health Threats and Vaccines Strategy at the European Medicines Agency (EMA).
AMR Accelerator’s COMBINE and ERA4TB projects are excited to invite you to an engaging and informative webinar that will introduce you to what regulatory agencies can offer drug and vaccine developers. Dr Botgros will explain the role of regulators and guide participants on how to best engage with the EMA, including what to expect and what not to expect from these interactions. You can also ask direct questions during the Q&A. Take advantage of this chance to expand your knowledge of regulators’ roles in drug and vaccine development and engage with an expert at the forefront of public health!
Click here to register for the webinar.

COMBINE Webinar on Machine Learning in Antibiotic Drug Discovery
2025-02-13 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Online
Join us for an insightful webinar on leveraging machine learning (ML) to tackle the challenges of antibiotic drug discovery amidst rising antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Discover how we developed the AntiMicrobial-KG, a comprehensive knowledge graph of in-vitro antibacterial assay data, and used it to train ML models for identifying potential antimicrobial compounds. Learn how our optimised Random Forest model achieved 75.9% accuracy and was successfully applied to predict active compounds in the EU-OpenScreen and Enamine libraries, offering a promising pathway to accelerate AMR drug discovery.
Time: February 13, 15:00 – 16:30 CET
Speakers:

Yojana Gadiya, Data Scientist, Fraunhofer ITMP ScreeningPort
Andrea Zaliani, Senior Data Scientist, Fraunhofer ITMP ScreeningPort
Dr. Philip Gribbon, Head Discovery Research, Fraunhofer ITMP ScreeningPort

Moderator: Frederik Deroose, CEO, Connecting Pharma
Register for the webinar by clicking this link or pasting https://limesurvey.biocom.de/index.php/635919?lang=en in the browser.

6th AMR Accelerator Cross-project Meeting (AMR Accelerator Members Only)
2025-02-24 15:00 - 22:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Pullman Basel Europe, Clarastrasse 43, Basel, 4058, Switzerland
The 6th AMR Accelerator Cross-project Meeting for the AMR Accelerator community will take place on 24 February 2025, 15:00 – 18:30 + Networking dinner, at the Pullman Basel Europe, Switzerland.
The registration is open until 30 January 2025 here (https://limesurvey.biocom.de/index.php/512877?lang=en).

9th AMR Conference: Novel Antimicrobials & AMR Diagnostics
2025-02-25 - 2025-02-26 | Congress Center Basel, Messeplatz 21, Basel, 4058, Switzerland
The AMR Conference is a platform for SMEs, start-ups, big pharma, academia, investors and public institutions to discuss strategies and specific challenges the innovation ecosystem faces in bringing new antimicrobial treatments and diagnostics to the market.
The conference is the one-stop shop for catching up with the latest trends in the development of AMR products, covering scientific, regulatory, financial, and policy topics. Besides high-level talks, the conference is a great place to network and exchange views on innovative technologies, development paths and alternative business models with your peers. The conference also offers one-to-one partnering to facilitate interactions.
The deadline for poster abstract submission and application for a startup pitch is 6 January 2025.

COMBINE Webinar on Success Stories in AMR R&D
2025-03-05 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Online
Join us for an exclusive webinar featuring leading experts in antimicrobial development as they present success stories in research on novel antibiotics and innovative antibacterial approaches!
You will learn:
– The latest breakthroughs in tackling multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria.
– The development of endolysins—from concept to first-in-human trials.
– Key scientific insights, successes, and challenges shaping the future of antimicrobial development.
Time:
March 5, 15:00 – 16:30 CET
Speakers:
Douglas Huseby, PhD
– Researcher and ENABLE-2 Program Manager, Uppsala University
Dr. Lorenzo Corsini
– Managing Director, BioNTech R&D Austria
Dr. Michael Graz
– CEO of Disperazol Pharma ApS, Denmark
– CSO of Biophys Limited, UK
– Research Fellow, Costerton Biofilm Center, University of Copenhagen
Moderator:
Frederik Deroose, CEO, Connecting Pharma
Register for the webinar by clicking this link or pasting https://limesurvey.biocom.de/index.php/458174?lang=en in the browser.

COMBINE-ERA4TB Webinar on The Cost of Treating Tuberculosis
2025-04-09 15:00 - 16:00 (Europe/Berlin) | Online
The cost of treating tuberculosis – the role of health economics in TB treatment development
Join us for this webinar with health economics experts to examine TB’s global cost burden to health systems and patients. The webinar will cover the range of costs associated with TB, how we measure these, and the role of health economics within this, particularly how health economics can provide insights into the priorities for new TB treatment development.
This webinar is an introduction to the topic designed for people working in TB or antimicrobial drug development and those with an interest in the health economics of Tuberculosis, including health technology assessment agencies.
This webinar will be the first in a series of three webinars focused on topics related to health economics and TB, hosted by ERA4TB, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), and COMBINE. It will focus on topics related to health economics and TB.
Time:
April 9, 15:00 – 16:00 CEST
Speakers:
Dr Sedona Sweeney
– Associate Professor of Health Economics, LSHTM
Dr Laura Rosu
– Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
Moderator:
Katharine Cresswell
– Scientific Adviser at NICE
Register for the webinar by clicking this link or pasting https://limesurvey.biocom.de/index.php/458174?lang=en in the browser.

ESCMID Global 2025
2025-04-11 - 2025-04-15 | Messe Wien Exhibition & Congress Center, Messeplatz 1, Vienna, 1020, Austria
Explore Vienna with ESCMID Global 2025 and grab the opportunity to immerse yourself in the latest topics of infectious diseases and clinical microbiology in this former imperial city. Join leading experts, discover cutting-edge research, and network with peers in a dynamic Messe Wien Exhibition & Congress Center setting. Learn more about the next instalment of ESCMID Global, 11–15 April 2025, here.

COMBINE-ERA4TB-GNA NOW Webinar on Hollow Fiber Assays
2025-10-21 15:00 - 16:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Online
Join us for a webinar featuring leading experts in antimicrobial drug development, who will share their expertise in developing hollow fiber systems for both tuberculosis and Gram-negative or Gram-positive pathogens. Several case studies will be presented on why, when, and how to effectively utilise hollow fiber assays and their application in in vitro pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics models. At the end, webinar attendees can participate in an exclusive Q&A session!
Time:
October 21, 15:00 – 16:30 CEST
Speakers:
Professor Shampa Das
– Head of the Department & Professor of Antimicrobial Therapeutics at the University of Liverpool
Santiago Ramón-García
– Research Professor at the ARAID Foundation / University of Zaragoza
Professor Alasdair MacGowan
– Consultant in Infection Research at North Bristol NHS Trust & Professor of Antimicrobial Therapeutics at the University of Bristol
Moderator:
Frederik Deroose
– CEO, Connecting Pharma
Register for the webinar by clicking this link or pasting https://forms.biocom.de/index.php/373438?lang=en in the browser.
