{"id":74563,"date":"2016-09-29T08:40:15","date_gmt":"2016-09-29T08:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ab6ac0667afe2fcf64c0e776d2d16463"},"modified":"2016-09-29T08:40:15","modified_gmt":"2016-09-29T08:40:15","slug":"news-story-tackling-drug-resistant-infection-apply-for-funding-support","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=74563","title":{"rendered":"News story: Tackling drug-resistant infection: apply for funding support"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Innovate UK has up to \u00a34 million to support projects that advance the UK\u2019s ability to tackle the global problem of antimicrobial resistance.<\/p>\n<p>The UK Government has acknowledged the need to for a significant research effort to stop the spread of drug-resistant infections.<\/p>\n<p>It is estimated that a failure to tackle drug-resistant infections could lead to at least 10 million extra deaths a year and cost the global economy up to \u00a375 trillion by 2050.<\/p>\n<p>This competition aims to support capital investment in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>new infrastructure that will fast-track research and development of new drugs, diagnostics and vaccines<\/li>\n<li>a global multi-centre clinical trials network for drugs, diagnostics and vaccines<\/li>\n<li>existing UK infrastructure and the setting up of a sample-collection network<\/li>\n<li>databases for new scientific and public understanding of antimicrobial resistance<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/collections\/innovate-uk-health-and-life-sciences\">Find out more about how Innovate UK is supporting the health sector.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h2 id=\"competition-information\">Competition information<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>the competition is open and the registration deadline is at noon on 27 October 2016<\/li>\n<li>projects are open to any organisation including businesses, charities, universities and hospitals<\/li>\n<li>projects can be led by any organisation of any size working alone or in collaboration with other organisations<\/li>\n<li>we expect to fund between 2 and 12 projects<\/li>\n<li>we expect funding requests to be between \u00a3200,000 and \u00a32 million but larger and smaller requests will be considered<\/li>\n<li>businesses could receive up to 50% of their total costs and universities, hospitals and research and technology organisations up to 100%<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div class=\"call-to-action\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/funding-competition-antimicrobial-resistance\">Find out more about this competition and apply<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Organisations can apply for a share of \u00a34 million to support projects that aim to improve UK ability to tackle drug-resistant infection.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74563"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}