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JPIAMR Evolves as Global Collaborative Platform on Antimicrobial Resistance. On February 26, 2018, South Korea was accepted as full member of the Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPIAMR). Now, 27 countries are members of the global collaborative platform and engaged in the mission to harness antimicrobial resistance (AMR). “AMR is a serious social issue […]

Today we are reached by the final report from DRIVE-AB with the headline: “Revitalizing the Antibiotic Pipeline“. The context is that “The current pipeline for innovative antibiotics in various stages of R&D is insufficient, potentially delivering no more than one innovative antibiotic for a “critical” World Health Organization (WHO) priority pathogen within the next five years.”, the report say in […]

The sixth transnational call for research projects for the JPIAMR within the ERA-NET JPI-EC-AMR THE CALL IS OPEN The JPIAMR, in partnership with sixteen member countries; Belgium, Czech Republic, Egypt, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland, is launching a sixth joint call for transnational research projects. The total […]

We are pleased to share that the date for the launch of the 6th Call is set for January 11, 2018. On that day, the application process will open and the final call text will be published. Romania has joined the Call and now sixteen nations have joined forces in the call for:  Innovation against antibiotic resistant bacteria: new […]

As always, the European Antibiotics Awareness day is a big day for us and many many other projects and organisations who work tirelessly to find solutions and make improvements in order to harness Antibiotic resistance. On November 15th, many gathered in Brussels , to make announcements  marking the 10th European Antibiotic Awareness Day at an EU-level event entitled ‘Keeping […]

One of the most interesting developments of the JPIAMR right now is the JPIAMR-VRI; the Virtual Research Institute on AMR. The JPIAMR-VRI is a key to unlock new potentials of AMR research and to be even more inclusive by increasing the diversity of researchers working together on AMR across disciplines, embracing the One Health approach. […]

The workshop, initiated by JPIAMR and the Swedish Research Council, was led by Professor Joakim Larsson at the University of Gothenburg. Over 20 scientists with core expertise on the Environmental Dimensions of Antibiotic Resistance, met in Gothenburg, Sweden, to discuss the steps needed to create a JPIAMR roadmap for research on AMR within the environment. […]

We are pleased to pre-announce the 6th Joint Call for transnational research projects “New Targets, Compounds and Tools”. To date fifteen countries are participating with a total budget of approximately 13 million Euros. The launch of the 6th Call will be in January, 2018. This year the WHO published the Global priority pathogen list of […]

We are pleased to announce the results of the JPIAMR 2017 call for transnational research projects “Comparison of prevention, control and intervention strategies for AMR infections through multidisciplinary studies, including One Health approaches”. Within this funding opportunity over EUR 11.5 million have been awarded to 10 projects. Consortia include 47 funded research groups from 11 […]

JPIAMR Working Groups are motivated groups of leading experts funded in order to enhance resource alignment and pushing forward the new ideas of value to the wider research community. Working groups are coordinated by scientists from participating countries but open to international experts. Preliminary scope of the call: Improvement, integration, standardisation and impact of surveillance. […]