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The JPIAMR Steering Committe members for the forthcoming two years are: Mats Ulfendahl (Swe), Ghada Zoubiane (UK), Martin Steinbakk (Nor), Bülent Genç (Ger), Lene Cividanes (Den), and Martijntje Bakker (NL). We thank Carlos Segovia, Laurent Gutmann, Peter Taylor and Waleria Hryniewicz for their Steering Committee work and welcome the new members to two exciting and […]

We are delighted to announce that Estonia has joined JPIAMR in the capacity of observer. We look forward to future interactions with the Estonian authorities and research community.  

VINNOVA – Sweden’s Innovation Agency, has joined the InnovaResistance call, making €1.1 million available to Swedish industrial partners. Sweden is already represented in this call by the Swedish Research Council which contributes up to €3 million to Swedish academic partners.

Antibiotics are powerful drugs that prevent many deaths each year. Antibiotics are a precious global resource that must be managed on a sustainable ecological basis, akin to fisheries. But today, antibiotics are either managed in a haphazard fashion or mismanaged. An important task is to fix the broken economic Incentives. Source: Chatam House

This report describes NIAID´s (National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) ongoing research portfolio of basic, translational, and clinical research in antimicrobial resistance and outlines a combination of innovative approaches based on the latest scientific advances to be pursued.These strategies draw on multidisciplinary parterships, which are essential for achieving a coordinated and nimble approach to addressing Antibacterial Resistance […]

The Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance is hosting its Strategic Research Agenda launch Conference – “Implementing a Global Research Agenda for AMR” – in Brussels on April 03, 2014. Conference Objectives: • To achieve wide recognition and awareness for the findings and roadmap of the SRA • To encourage uptake of the recommendations developed in the […]

Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique (FNRS) of French-speaking Belgium has joined the first JPIAMR transnational call and is making at least €0,2 million available. Belgium was represented from before by Research Foundation Flanders (FWO).

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The Strategic Research Agenda has now been published. The core of the agenda is the identification and description of six priority topics (Priority Topic table): A. Development of novel antibiotics and alternatives for antibiotics – from  basic research to the market. B. Design strategies to improve treatment and prevention of infections by developing new diagnostics. C. Standardisation and extension […]

The report of the conference on Antimicrobial Resistance – Incentivizing Change Towards a Global Solution organized by Chatham House and the Centre on Global Health Security is now available online. Key aims that were addressed: What new efforts by governments and stakeholders in the developing and developed world are needed for global antimicrobial conservation? What obstacles […]