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Chemicals in our wastewater...and our rivers - closing the water
cycle loop
This blog from the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology's AMR
researcher Dr Andrew Singer, provides a perspective which explains why change
is needed in how we handle our wastewater.
Together against AMR
Following the RCUK UK-India sandpit event Naomi Sykes, the Lawrence Chair in
Archaeology at the University of Exeter, demonstrates the importance of
approaching AMR from a cross discipline perspective.
Hype can undermine hope for new antibiotics
Every time a newly discovered molecule or preclinical drug makes the headlines
as a “cure for drug resistant infections,” we risk people thinking that the
problem has been solved, write Anthony McDonnell and Neil Woodford.
Tackling AMR - social and behavioural issues
The ESRC has been working on a cross-council initiative to identify research challenges in tackling the rise in AMR, and funding research projects that put social and behavioural issues at the forefront of the fight against it. See pages 10-12.
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Wild
Card is a new initiative, pioneered by EIT
Health, to identify and support innovative and high-risk ideas with the
potential to transform an area within European healthcare. Focusing on applied research, entrepreneurial ideas and innovative
thinking, projects that address one of two
challenge areas are invited: Challenge 1: SMART HEALTH: How to transform medical
diagnostics with artificial intelligence and big data? Challenge 2: FIGHT
BACK: How to manage antibiotic resistance in European healthcare? This is
a call for individuals or teams of individuals who are not incorporated as
a company nor part of a larger institution. The call is open until March, 9th.
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UK-China
AMR Centre Partnerships Initiative - The
UK-China AMR Centre Partnerships Initiative call for proposals is now due to
launch on 30 March 2018.
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JPIAMR
Surveillance Network Call - The UK is one of 10 countries participating in the
upcoming AMR Surveillance Network call from the Joint Programming Initiative on
Antimicrobial Resistance (JPIAMR). For more information please see the pre-call
announcement on the JPIAMR website.
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CARB-X launches its 2018
rounds of funding and invites applications to support research into
the development of antibiotics, vaccines, diagnostics, devices and other
life-saving products to respond to the threat of drug-resistant bacteria.
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It’s a date! Science Museum’s Superbugs Late evening set for April 25 - UKRI will be hosting an event space at the London Science Museum’s Superbugs Late evening on 25th April. If you work or study in AMR, and would like to help on the night either hosting interactive exhibits or speaking to the public about AMR research do please get in touch at AMR@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk
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Calling all AMR maestros – are you a good singer? Could you sing to the public about how AMR research is going to beat AMR? If so, we’d love to form a mini choir for the evening to perform to visitors and sing an as-yet-to-be-chosen song on AMR research. Please contact AMR@headoffice.mrc.ac.uk if you’d like to get involved.
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Antibiotics fail in a fifth of post-op infections
A global study found antibiotics are now failing to work in a fifth of patients who suffer an infection after hospital surgery. The Telegraph reported that levels of antibiotic resistance were highest in the poorest countries. The study received funding from a DFID-MRC-Wellcome Trust Joint Global Health Trial Development Grant.
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China’s Phoenix TV on UK
excellence in AMR research
Feature from China’s Phoenix TV
featuring interviews with the MRC’s Jonathan Pearce and microbiologists
Andrew Edwards and Martha Clokie on AMR as a global problem, and the UK’s
role in fighting it. In 2018, the MRC will lead a cross-Councils call on
AMR joint research with the National Natural Science Foundation of China,
putting the two countries at the forefront of international research
combating drug-resistant bacteria.
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