{"id":93738,"date":"2018-07-09T15:01:00","date_gmt":"2018-07-09T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=567ce52cb6455058af02740b85d8d1db"},"modified":"2018-07-09T15:01:00","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T15:01:00","slug":"news-story-10-million-research-competition-launched-to-tackle-antimicrobial-resistance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=93738","title":{"rendered":"News story: \u00a310 million research competition launched to tackle antimicrobial resistance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Department of Health and Social Care is announcing the launch of a \u00a310 million research competition to fund innovations to tackle antimicrobial resistance (<abbr title=\"antimicrobial resistance\">AMR<\/abbr>) in humans.<\/p>\n<p><abbr title=\"antimicrobial resistance\">AMR<\/abbr>, which includes bacterial resistance to existing antibiotics, is on the rise and poses a significant threat to health across the world. Without a better understanding of how to tackle and prevent <abbr title=\"antimicrobial resistance\">AMR<\/abbr>, treatable infections could become life-threatening and the advancements made in modern medicine over recent decades are at risk of being reversed.<\/p>\n<p>The competition follows the announcement of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/30-million-of-funding-to-tackle-antimicrobial-resistance\">\u00a330 million to fund research and development projects<\/a> as part of the Global <abbr title=\"antimicrobial resistance\">AMR<\/abbr> Innovation Fund (GAMRIF) in May 2018 with CARB-X, the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND), the Argentinian government, and Canada\u2019s International Development Research Centre (IDRC).<\/p>\n<p>The \u00a310 million will be made available in research grants funded through a Small Business Research Initiative (SBRI). It is being run by Innovate UK on behalf of the Department of Health and Social Care, with the aim of supporting the implementation of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/publications\/uk-5-year-antimicrobial-resistance-strategy-2013-to-2018\">UK Five Year Antimicrobial Resistance Strategy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, a government-commissioned review by Lord Jim O\u2019Neill highlighted the need for more research and development to reduce the global threat of <abbr title=\"antimicrobial resistance\">AMR<\/abbr> \u2013 prompting the government to commit to an additional investment of up to \u00a355 million over 5 years from 2016\/17 towards promoting excellence in <abbr title=\"antimicrobial resistance\">AMR<\/abbr> research and development in the UK.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/apply-for-innovation-funding.service.gov.uk\/competition\/176\/overview\">Today\u2019s competition, which makes available a maximum of \u00a310 million in funding to successful bids<\/a>, forms part of funding announced in October 2017 at the global \u2018Call to Action\u2019 conference by the Wellcome Trust, the UN Foundation, and the UK, Ghanaian and Thai governments, to accelerate action in this area.<\/p>\n<p>Chief Medical Officer, Professor Dame Sally Davies, said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Antimicrobial resistance may seem like a distant threat, but people are already dying needlessly in their thousands across the world, including in this country, because they have a drug-resistant infection and we do not have effective drugs to treat them. This problem is only getting worse \u2013 we urgently need to find solutions.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">More research is critical, which is why the UK government is calling on some of the country\u2019s brightest minds to come up with new ways to prevent, control and combat these infections in the future. I know there are exciting projects needing support in this area \u2013 this competition presents a fantastic opportunity for the UK to lead this work.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The competition aims to encourage the development of innovative scientific approaches to stopping antimicrobial resistance and to infection control and prevention.<\/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\/93738"}],"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=93738"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93738\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93746,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93738\/revisions\/93746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}