Author: Anna Sundin

The JPIAMR in partnership with 14 countries (Belgium, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Latvia, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Spain, Sweden and Switzerland) is launching a fifth joint call for transnational research Projects.

The call targets research in the following topic:

Comparison of prevention, control and intervention strategies for AMR infections through multidisciplinary studies, including One Health approaches

Call procedure:

The call has a two-step procedure, with a first stage (pre-proposal submission) from which selected applicants will be invited to submit a full proposal.

Deadline:

The pre-proposal submission deadline is March 21st, 2017 (17:00, CET)
The full proposal submission deadline is July 4th, 2017 (17:00, CET)

Read more here for information and how to submit your application.

 

At the fifth anniversary of the launch of the second wave of Joint Programming Initiatives
(JPI), the ten initiatives present a new brochure and factsheets on all JPIs.

The new folder explains the benefits of participating in a Joint Programming Initiative, provides an overview of the governance model and highlights the implementation actions for transnational cooperation. In addition to the general introduction to Joint Programming all JPIs developed a factsheet with an overview of member countries, objectives and key achievements.

The brochure was presented at the Annual Joint Programming Conference on 22-23 November 2016 in Brussels and can be downloaded here.

Download JPIs brochure
Download JPIs factsheets

 

Today, at European Antibiotic Awareness Day in Brussels, JPIAMR Chair Carlos Segovia announces our new research proposal call on prevention and intervention strategies to control AMR infections. Read more on the pre-announcement here

JPIAMR just awarded 28.3 M EUR to 19 research projects to bridge the knowledge gap on AMR transmission mechanisms. 19 project consortia with a total of 96 research groups from 16 countries were awarded 28.3 M EUR for 3 years of research from JPIAMR member countries and the European Commission under the ERA-NET Co-fund scheme. The JPIAMR joint co-funded call “To unravel the dynamics of transmission and selection of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) at genetic, bacterial, animal, human, societal, and environmental levels, in order to design and evaluate preventive and intervening measures for controlling resistance” closed in July 2016 and received 83 applications. Read more about the recommended projects here

In addition, the JPIAMR has funded 13 new Networks/ Working Groups in the field of AMR through its last June 2016 joint call. These researcher networks will work on the development of different AMR policy recommendations and research strategies. Their outcomes will be published in December 2017. Read more about the funded projects here

 

Call Pre-announcement

JPIAMR is launching a new research of proposals call in the area of Interventions with a total budget of about 12 M EUR and the participation of approximately 12 countries. The primary aim of the fifth joint call of JPIAMR is to compare prevention, control, and intervention strategies to prevent the development, transmission of AMR infections. The call will be published in January 2017 and will close in March 2017. Read more here

 

 

JPIAMR is supporting the WHO World Antibiotic Awareness Week and is also an active partner in the ECDC European Antibiotic Awareness Day November 18^th. 

Considerable efforts in research, health care, animal health, food production and environmental technology has to be done to counteract the development of antimicrobial resistance. Therefore, organizations all over Europe has joined European Antibiotic Awareness Day November 18. This is an annual campaign to increase knowledge about antibiotic resistance hosted by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, ECDC.

JPIAMR will participate during the campaign day November 18 and JPIAMR Chair will announce the results of the third and fourth call for proposals as announce the upcoming call on intervention strategies.

Read more at: European Antibiotic Awareness Day

 

 

CORBEL – Coordinated Research Infrastructures Building Enduring Life-science services – is an EC Horizon2020 project uniting 11 Biological and Medical Science Research Infrastructures (RIs). In CORBEL, the participating RIs expand their cooperation in order to harmonise researchers’ access to their cutting-edge technologies and services by establishing a sustainable platform of aligned services that will enable faster admission to and a wider portfolio of technologies and services to boost research projects.

The CORBEL Open Call invites researchers to apply to access technologies and services from more than 15 facilities from eight different research infrastructures across Europe. Selected projects will be allocated to so-called Access Tracks and gain unprecedented opportunities to utilise a wide range of high-end technologies and services. These include state-of-the-art offers from the fields of advanced imaging, biobanking, curated databases, marine model organisms, mouse mutant phenotyping, screening and medicinal chemistry, structural biology as well as systems biology.

Projects will be supported at every stage, with CORBEL project managers on hand to help scientists navigate between different service providers and exploit the full potential of the offers available.

Learn more about the CORBEL Open Call by visiting our website http://www.corbel-project.eu/1st-open-call.html

 

 

On the 21^st of September, the UN General Assembly convened to discuss on antimicrobial resistance (AMR) for the first time. Representatives from 193 countries signed a declaration to “Act on AMR”, which signals a strong commitment to curb the global overuse of medicines to treat disease.

Since 2010, the Joint Programming Initiative on antimicrobial resistance, JPIAMR, has coordinated research funding in the field of antimicrobial resistance, in order to allow greater impact and avoid duplication of research. Today, JPIAMR includes more than twenty actively participating countries. While initially only Europe-based, JPIAMR has recently expanded globally to Argentina, Israel and Canada.

“We are very pleased that awareness of antimicrobial resistance has now been lifted to the global level. International cooperation is essential in this matter. JPIAMR will be engaging with more countries outside Europe, making it an ideal platform for global coordination of AMR research”, says Chairman of JPIAMR, Carlos Segovia.

Much of the content in the UN Declaration is consistent with the work already done by JPIAMR. Carlos Segovia is happy about this, but wants to see well-defined priorities:

“Several points of the declaration touch on aspects that our initiatives have already succeeded in achieving – including creating and implement national plans. We wish, however, for an even stronger focus on how the different countries should coordinate their research funding in prioritized areas.”

Through JPIAMR’s funding initiatives, more than 50M EUR has been distributed for research on new antimicrobials and therapies as well as on transmission mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance. The program also finances ten networks that address various policy issues regarding antimicrobial resistance including diagnostics or interventions.

Next year, the efforts will be intensified with additional grants for research on combating antimicrobial resistance. In January, JPIAMR is going to launch a new call for proposals on AMR Interventions with a budget of over 10M EUR.

 

JPIAMR Workshop “The interplay between AMR Surveillance and Science”

Oslo, Norway October 12-13. 2016

Surveillance is a key component of any strategy to counteract the spread and consequences of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).  Present surveillance systems have severe limitations  and the purpose of the workshop is to explore how surveillance systems can be developed to support scientific research, and how science can fill knowledge gaps to optimize surveillance. 

The workshop will be hosted by the Norwegian Research Council as a lunch-to-lunch meeting for invited participants on October 12-13 in Oslo, Norway. The discussion will revolve around selected keynote lectures, breakout sessions and plenary discussions.

Program

October 12 2016       

Lunch

• Welcome and scope of the workshop
• Gunnar Skov Simonsen (University of Tromsø, Norway)
• “The use of AMR surveillance data in scientific research – Opportunities and limitations”

Liselotte Diaz Högberg (European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control, Sweden)

• “The global transition from phenotypic to genotypic AMR surveillance – How do we get there? “

Neil Woodford (Public Health England, UK)

• Breakout session in two groups to identify knowledge gaps in AMR surveillance and suggest funding calls for scientific research to amend these
  • AMR surveillance for patient management

Hajo Grundmann (Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Germany)

• AMR surveillance in non-human reservoirs
• Bruno Gonzalez-Zorn (Complutense University, Spain)

October 13 2016

Breakfast

• “Novel technologies and strategies for surveillance”
• David Aanensen (Imperial College, UK)
• Reports from breakout sessions
  • “The interplay between surveillance and science to optimize patient management”

Hajo Grundmann (Universitätsklinikum Freiburg, Germany)

• “The interplay between surveillance and science to contain non-human AMR reservoirs”

Bruno Gonzalez-Zorn (Complutense University, Spain)

• Plenary discussion on future JPI-AMR funding call for AMR surveillance.
• Martin Steinbakk (Norwegian Institute of Public Health, Norway)

 

We are pleased to report that the Microbiology Society has honored  Laura Piddock the Vice-chair of the Scientific Advisory Board for JPIAMR  with the 2016 Outreach Prize. The Prize is awarded to a microbiologist who has engaged in high-quality outreach activities during the last 2–5 years. As the Vice-chair of the Scientific Advisory Board, Laura uses her extensive expertise in the AMR field to make sure JPIAMR’s scientific focus follows the identified strategic route. She is Professor of Microbiology at the University of Birmingham where she runs the Antimicrobials Research Group. Her current research focuses on understanding mechanisms of antibiotic resistance as a basis for drug discovery.

Read more on the 2016 Outreach prize

Read more on Laura Piddock’s research here