JPIAMR 14th Call Partner Search Tool

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: Cardiff University
• Country: United Kingdom (UK)

Research area

• Scientific area(s) of the call:
  1. Improvement of drug/plant protection agent efficacy and/or specificity through chemical modifications (including hit to lead optimisation)
  2. Optimisation of drug/plant protection agent combinations, alone or with adjunct therapies (including therapeutic vaccines)
  3. Design and implementation of new strategies (including optimisation of drug doses) for improved application, efficacy and delivery of single or combinations of antimicrobials
  4. Design and implementation of innovative tools, including novel chemistry and/or new materials for improved application, efficacy and delivery of antimicrobials
• One Health Setting:

  Human Health Animal Health (including wild-life, livestock, fishes, and companion animals)

• Type of studies/experimental approaches:

  in silico, in vitro, in vivo

• Keywords:

  drug delivery; controlled release; nanomedicine

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  Would like to collaborate with polymer chemists or expertise in in vivo models. Can contribute expertise in polymer conjugation, physicochemical characterisation, in vitro assays and access to clinical samples (incl. clinical bacterial strains)

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  Using drug delivery to improve effectiveness and reduce toxicity of antibiotics (including antibiotics that have been abandoned in development due to toxicity). Can also design in stimuli-responsive drug release and combinations of 2 or more antibiotics (or other bioactive molecule).

Elaine Ferguson

• Organisation: Cardiff University
• Position: Reader
• E-mail: FergusonEL@cardiff.ac.uk
• Web: www.cardiff.ac.uk/people/view/39401-ferguson-elaine