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

General Information

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

• Keywords:

  susceptibility testing; MIC; rapid diagnostics; antibiotic resistance: volatiles

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

  I have proof of principle for using sensing of volatile compounds produced by growing bacteria as a rapid (1 hour) approach to susceptibility testing. I\'d like to build on these data to evaluate the approach more comprehensively, extending it to a much broader range of bacterial pathogens of varying antibiotic susceptibility, and thereby explore the potential for deployment in the diagnostic laboratory.

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

  I\'d be interested in partnering with colleagues exploring other rapid MIC methods, as I think (i) evaluating a suite of approaches in parallel would make a really strong proposal and (ii) since the evaluation/ validation aspects would be essentially the same for different methodologies, working together would streamline the workflow and avoid duplication of effort across multiple projects.

Alex O\'Neill

• Organisation: University of Leeds
• Position: Professor of Antimicrobial Research
• E-mail: a.j.oneill@leeds.ac.uk
• Web: biologicalsciences.leeds.ac.uk/molecular-and-cellular-biology/staff/119/professor-alex-o-neill