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

General Information

• Project title: Controlling AMR in hospital through environmental intervention
• Type: Project looking for partner
• Organisation: MEPHI
• Country: France (FR)
• 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. Identify the barriers to uptake, including factors leading to the success or failure of previously run pilot interventions, and when applicable design solutions to overcome them.

• One Health Setting:

  Human Health

  Environment (incl. natural and built)

• Keywords:

  metagenomic; transferrable elements; persistance; desinfection; software

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

  We are looking for a partner with expertise in environmental microbiology, particularly for the realization and analysis of environmental metagenomics projects.

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

  The project focuses on controlling the spread of antibiotic resistance in hospitals. The aim is to understand the role of the environment in the dissemination of multidrug resistant bacteria and/or mobile genetic elements in hospitals. in order to put in place effective protocols to limit their spread.

Dr Sophie Baron

• Organisation: MEPHI
• Position: Clinical microbiologist
• E-mail: sophie.baron.2@univ-amu.fr
• Phone: 0413732313