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No silver bullets: UK clinicians need rapid point-of-care diagnostic tools so they can prescribe antibiotics with certainty.
A contribution to stimulate discussion at the ‘Antimicrobial Resistance: Managing the Risks and Identifying the Opportunities for Global Investment conference, London, 21 November 2019
Chatham House published a Review of Progress on Antimicrobial Resistance. Our very own Daniel Berman, Global Health Lead at Nesta Challenges, leading the Longitude Prize, attended the event and commented on the shortcomings of the review and the need to raise awareness on diagnostic development.
We spoke to Lina Gasiūnaitė, Co-founder and Director of Science at Biotangents, a veterinary diagnostics company based in Scotland, developing pen-side tests for infectious diseases of livestock.
Today, on World Sepsis Day 2019 - a stark reminder of the tragic risks of infections that are not recognised early and treated promptly - we’re renewing our calls for the need to accelerate innovation in the development of rapid point-of-care diagnostic tests that can be used to identify bacterial infections.
Our diagnostic roundtable event in Delhi, in collaboration with Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council (BIRAC), discussed how essential diagnostics are for a future where antibiotics still save lives.
Innovators competing in £8m Longitude Prize showcase how their diagnostic tests are designed to fight antibiotic resistance in different clinical settings.
We caught up with Penny Wilson, Longitude Prize Judge to discuss the Boost Grant programme in Mumbai, the grant winners and whether an Indian team might win the Longitude Prize.
A new competition, launched by Innovate4AMR, is recruiting teams of students to tackle antibiotic stewardship in low-resource healthcare settings. The objective is to increase access to antibiotics and reduce inequity. Organisers of the competition, Anthony D. So and Joshua Woo from the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, discuss what this means.
29/05/2019
Live webinar for Canadian test developers
The Longitude Prize team is inviting Canadian institutes, researchers & companies that are working on point-of-care diagnostics tests to help tackle antibiotic resistance to join a live webinar (18 June 2019), hosted and moderated by the Canadian Institutes for Health Research (CIHR).
Vanessa Carter has been awarded the Foundation for Innovative New Diagnostics (FIND) Voice for Diagnosis community prize for her advocacy work and shares her decade long battle with drug-resistant MRSA .
In this Q&A we chat with BioAmp Diagnostics, Longitude Prize team from Berkeley, to gain a better understanding of their new partnership with Illumina to validate their urinary tract infection (UTI) test.