17th JPIAMR transnational call for research projects - AMR Interventions 2024 (IMPACT)

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: University Hospital Bonn, Institute of Hygiene and Public Health
• Country: Germany (DE)
• Career stage: Early Career Researcher (up to 8 years** since PhD).

Research area

• Scientific area(s) of the call:
  1. Topic 2: Improve and/or, compare and/or evaluate strategies, technologies, treatments, methods, protocols or data collection based on existing interventions, aiming to prevent or reduce the emergence or spread of antibacterial or antifungal resistance or to treat/cure infections caused by resistant bacteria/fungi and recommend new policies.
• Subtopics:
  1. Improve and/or compare and/ or evaluate the effectiveness of existing interventions (e.g. cost effectiveness clinical utility, socio-economic adaptability, reducing AMR emergence, spread, transmission, treatment etc.)

• One Health Setting:

  Human Health

  Animal Health (incl. wildlife, livestock, acquatic organisms, and companion animals)
  Environment (incl. natural and built)

• Keywords:

  wastewater; ESKAPE pathogens; carbapenemases; transformation; exDNA

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

  My current research is focused on the isolation and characterization of ESKAPE pathogens from diverse environments, including slaughterhouses, municipal wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), and clinical wastewater. Furthermore, my particular interest lies in examining extracellular DNA and its role in the spread of clinically relevant antimicrobial resistances, with a special emphasis on carbapenemases, and cefiderocol resistance.

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

  I am keen to contribute to projects dealing with clinically relevant antimicrobial resistances in a variety of wastewater types, including those from municipal, industrial, and healthcare settings. Projects integrating both traditional culture-dependent methods and innovative molecular-based techniques are of special interest to me.

Michael Savin-Hoffmeyer

• Organisation: University Hospital Bonn, Institute of Hygiene and Public Health
• Position: Postdoc
• E-mail: michael.savin-hoffmeyer@ukbonn.de
• Web: www.ukbonn.de/ihph/