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

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: Fraunhofer ITMP
• Country: Germany (DE)
• Career stage: Other.

Research area

• Scientific area(s) of the call:
  1. Topic 1: Design novel or improved interventions to prevent, mitigate and /or treat fungal infections, which are resistant to treatments and/or are at risk of developing resistance
• Subtopics:

• One Health Setting:

  Human Health

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

• Keywords:

  Assay Development Compound Libraries Drug Repurposing High-Throughput Screening

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

  The Fraunhofer ITMP ScreeningPort has a long-standing expertise in early stage drug discovery. We are specialized in hit identification using biochemical, cell-based, and biophysical methods. We have a state-of-the-art screening facility and our compound libraries include hundreds of thousands of synthetic compounds as well as thousands of approved and investigational drugs. In addition, we offer in silico hit identification using different virtual screening approaches.

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

  We are looking for projects addressing topic 1. We can contribute to hit identification using our screening facility, compound libraries and expertise in assay development and screening.

Björn Windshügel

• Organisation: Fraunhofer ITMP
• Position: Head of Infection Biology
• E-mail: bjoern.windshuegel@itmp.fraunhofer.de
• Web: www.itmp.fraunhofer.de/en.html