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21 Mar 2016
Our new partnership with the Government of India will provide seed funding for Indian teams
The Government of India's Biotechnology Industry Research Assistance Council has created an India-focused seed fund as part of our Discovery Award Programme.
11 Mar 2016
Remembering Sir Alexander Fleming
Today marks 61 years since the death of Sir Alexander Fleming, the father of antibiotics.
08 Mar 2016
International Women's Day 2016: STEM fields
On this year's International Women's Day we think about women in STEM and the road ahead to equal representation.
25 Feb 2016
Government of India and WHO host meeting of government, industry and public sector to tackle AMR
We joined an international meeting in New Delhi this week to address AMR as a public health priority
23 Feb 2016
We’re heading to the States in March – Join us!
We're going to the United States and would like meet you in Boston, Washington DC, Houston, San Diego, Seattle or San Francisco.
We are designing and developing the Discovery Award programme, a fund of up to £2 million which will help more individuals and teams work on their ideas and hopefully submit an entry to win the Prize
The adoption of the Sustainable Development Goals heralds a new era for health and development, but antimicrobial resistance is not mentioned once in the SDG targets.
11 Feb 2016
Report from AMR Review calls for vaccines and alternative approaches to tackle drug-resistant infections
In a report published today, Jim O’Neill’s Review on Antimicrobial Resistance sets out that there are too few vaccines and alternative approaches to antibiotics available for doctors to use to tackle many of our most urgent drug resistance threats.
29 Jan 2016
Creating incentives for people-powered health
Longitude Prize is just one of Nesta’s projects aiming to combat pressing health issues through the collective power of people.
Science can be a key inspiration for video games, which have huge potential as an education tool. It’s time for us to pay serious attention to play.
More than 80 leading pharmaceutical, generics, diagnostics and biotech companies, as well as key industry bodies, issued joint declaration at the World Economic Forum in Davos to tackle antimicrobial resistance.
Team mariPOC® from Finland share their experience developing their idea for the Longitude Prize.