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November 2020
World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2020
The theme for World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2020 for the human health sector is “United to preserve antimicrobials.” Every year, World Antimicrobial Awareness Week aims to increase awareness of global antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and to encourage best practices among the general public, health workers and policy makers to stop the further emergence and spread of drug-resistant infections. WAAW has expanded its scope to address not just antibiotics, but all antimicrobials, including antiviral, antifungal and antiparasitic medicines. This exciting decision came…
Find out more »World Vaccine and Immunotherapy Congress West Coast 2020
In December 2019 SARS-CoV-2 the cause of COVID-19, was responsible for thousands of deaths in Wuhan, China. By March 11, 2020, WHO declared COVID-19 as a worldwide pandemic.The single most effective way to tackle this pandemic is a working vaccine, which is why Vaccine Congress West Coast is bringing together experts who have been working tirelessly to make this happen, in a safe, virtual environment. This is the most important meeting you will be part of. Now more than ever,…
Find out more »December 2020
Evidence to Action Webinar: Advancing the Antimicrobial Resistance agenda during a pandemic
How can efforts to implement Antimicrobial Resistance National Action Plans still progress despite the COVID-19 pandemic? There is no doubt COVID-19 currently represents the most obvious and urgent issue for global health security and the world is rightfully focused on tackling this pandemic. However, the challenges posed by COVID-19 are only a foretaste of what antimicrobial resistance (AMR) can mean to the world without appropriate interventions. AMR, the silent pandemic, can impact many of the global health achievements of past…
Find out more »Milken Institute Future of Health Summit
The Milken Institute Future of Health Summit convenes the best minds in the world to confront the most significant health challenges by matching human, financial, scientific, and educational resources with innovative and impactful ideas. The Summit will focus on the converging crises of public health, economic insecurity, and social injustice. COVID-19 has exposed weaknesses across our health systems, particularly in the treatment of our most vulnerable communities, where access to affordable and quality health care has never been more vital.…
Find out more »BLUE KNIGHT™ Symposium
CARB-X participants include Erin Duffy, Chief of R&D. Johnson & Johnson Innovation – JLABS is collaborating with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA), a component of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, to form Blue Knight. This collaboration aims to stimulate innovation and incubation of technologies that improve health security and response through companies focused on public health threats and emerging infectious diseases. Find out more…
Find out more »January 2021
5th Microbiome Movement – Drug Development Summit Europe 2021
Participants include CARB-X funded companies Eligo Bioscience and Seres Therapeutics. As the first microbiome-based therapeutic steps closer to market approval, the scientific community continue to demonstrate the functional role of the human microbiome as a novel source of therapeutic, biomarker and diagnostic development. Despite this progress, the vast potential to develop effective treatments that target the human microbiome is still limited by the complex challenges in developing them. Part of the foremost conference series for microbiome researchers in industry, the…
Find out more »July 2021
31st European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID)
We invite you to the 31st European Congress of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases (ECCMID), which will take place in Vienna, Austria from 9 – 12 July 2021. This is the first time the event will take place in summer. ECCMID, the world’s premier Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases event, brings together experts from relevant fields to present the latest findings and developments and share their expertise. The congress will take place in the beautiful city of Vienna at the…
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