16th JPIAMR transnational call for research projects - AMR diagnostics and surveillance 2023 (DISTOMOS)

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: Wageningen University & Research
• Country: (NL)
• Career stage: Other.

Research area

• Scientific area(s) of the call:
  1. Topic 1: to develop novel, or improve existing, diagnostics, including point of care diagnostics, that can rule out antimicrobial use or help identify the most effective antimicrobial treatment
• One Health Setting:

  Human Health

  Animal Health (incl. wild-life, livestock, acquatic organisms, and companion animals)
  Food

• Keywords:

  POC diagnostics; microarray lateral flow; microarray-ELISA; multiplex amplification; on-site

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

  Development of rapid microarray diagnostic platforms, also combined with preceding multiplex amplification of genes. Already developed a multiplex PCR for 4 genes coding for carbapenamases and the gene coding for colistin.

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

  Project 4 (ZA): Determination of presence of carbapenamases and colistin resistance in the clinical isolates from Mthatha and surrounding areas. Project 9 (UK): Development of novel POC Diagnostics for monitoring infections in livestock

Aart van Amerongen

• Organisation: Wageningen University & Research
• Position: Head of BioSensing & Diagnostics
• E-mail: aart.vanamerongen@wur.nl
• Phone: +31317480164
• Web: www.wur.nl/en/research-results/research-institutes/food-biobased-research/expertises/biosensing-and-diagnostics.htm