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

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: UCIBIO. Faculty of Pharmacy University of Porto
• Country: Portugal (PT)
• Career stage: Other.

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)

• Keywords:

  Clinical Microbiology; Antimicrobial Resistance; Molecular Epidemiology; Infrared spectroscopy; Diagnostics

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

  I have experience in culturomics, antibiotic susceptibility methods, strain typing methods applied to explain the selection and dissemination of antimicrobial resistant (AMR) bacteria of clinical relevance, using a state-of-the art approach including genomics in close proximity to different healthcare settings. Track record of the development of cost-effective methods for diagnosis and typing of AMR (Blue-Carba test for carbapenemase detection-https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/jcm.01634-13; FT-IR spectroscopy for bacterial typing-doi: 10.1007/s10096-018-3431-3) that are being applied as instruments for a quicker and more effective infection control in hospital settings (10.3390/antibiotics11010092; 10.3390/antibiotics9110806; 10.1007/s10096-020-03956-y).

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

  My expertise could be valuable to assess rates and trends of antimicrobial resistant (AMR) bacteria by state-of-the-art phenotypic and genotypic methods as an evaluation of a given strategy to prevent and control the spread of AMR bacteria. I have been implementing FT-IR spectroscopy as a low-cost, quick and effective method to support infection control and surveillance of AMR bacteria, together with a hospital partners and key agents in implementing stewardship and infection control policies and approaches. These network in Portugal can be valuable to assess representativeness throughout Europe according to variable clinical and public health practices.

Angela Novais

• Organisation: UCIBIO. Faculty of Pharmacy University of Porto
• Position: Senior Researcher
• E-mail: aamorim@ff.up.pt
• Web: orcid.org/0000-0003-1171-0326