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

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: Faculty of veterinary medicine, University of "Ss. Cyril and Methodius"
• Country: Macedonia (MK)
• Career stage: Early Career Researcher (up to 8 years** since PhD).

Research area

• Scientific area(s) of the call:
  1. Topic 2: to develop or improve existing strategies, technologies or methods, or data use strategies to support One Health AMR surveillance
• One Health Setting:
  Animal Health (incl. wild-life, livestock, acquatic organisms, and companion animals)
  Food
  Environment (incl. natural and built)

• Keywords:

  agriculture; veterinary MIC;AST; One Health

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

  The team expertise at the Food Institute is related with research on food-borne bacterial pathogens (Campylobacter, Salmonella, Listeria). We are proficient in microbiology analysis, antimicrobial resistance (AMR) and the development of surveillance system (animal, food and environmental samples). We have knowledge on bioinformatic analyses of whole-genome sequencing data.

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

  We are interested in collaborating on a project in line with the One Health approach.The project will be based on data use strategies for antimicrobial resistance surveillance. The deliverables of the project will support changing work practices that will lead to improvement in AMR surveillance (especially for multi-drug resistant microorganisms).

Ljupcho Angelovski

• Organisation: Faculty of veterinary medicine, University of "Ss. Cyril and Methodius"
• Position: Head of laboratory
• E-mail: angelovski@fvm.ukim.edu.mk
• Phone: +38970433560
• Web: www.fvm.ukim.edu.mk