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

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: Università degli studi di Milano
• Country: Italy (IT)
• 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:

  phage ; phage engineering; antibacterial agents; phage therapy; one health

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

  Isolation and characterization of phages active on EHEC from human, animal and food samples; induction of phages from E. coli strains; study of the relationship with their hosts and selection in a phage therapy approach; sequencing of phage genomes; developing procedures to modify phages. We are a group of microbiologists and biotechnologists with with twenty years of experience on physiology of food bacteria and yeasts working at State University of Milan.

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

  We would like to work on: using of natural lytic phages against any multidrug-resistant bacteria; modifying phages for enhancing antibacterial activity or broadening the host range; studying endolysins as alternative antimicrobials; developing of phage-based tools for fast pathogen detection.

Roberto Foschino

• Organisation: Università degli studi di Milano
• Position: Associate Professor
• E-mail: roberto.foschino@unimi.it
• Web: www.unimi.it/en/ugov/person/roberto-foschino