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

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: Empa
• Country: Switzerland (CH)
• Career stage: Early Career Researcher (up to 8 years** since PhD).

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)
  Environment (incl. natural and built)

• Keywords:

  bacteria detection; nanomaterials; fluorescence; responsive materials; POC design

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

  During my working experience as a pharmacist, I could not help but notice the overuse and misuse of antibiotics in particular broad-spectrum antibiotics. Therefore, as a researcher, I help to find a solution to the problem by developing rapid, cost-efficient, sensitive, and specific diagnostic approaches allowing the prompt administration of the right antibiotic. Moreover, I have been working on developing responsive nanomaterials used for achieving smart drug delivery systems.

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

  Design and development of a novel and advanced sensing method to improve the diagnosis of bacterial infections. The developed approach should be sensitivity, selectivity but also cost-efficient.

Dr. Giorgia Giovannini

• Organisation: Empa
• Position: Scientist
• E-mail: giorgia.giovannini@empa.ch
• Web: www.researchgate.net/profile/Giorgia-Giovannini