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

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: Newcastle Univeristy
• Country: United Kingdom (UK)
• 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.)
  2. 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

• Keywords:

  children; tracheostomy; airway; ear; PICU; intensive care

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

  Our group is interested in two areas of clinical infection; Firstly infections in tracheostomised children, or intubated and ventilated children on PICU Secondly recurrent ear infections in children, and its complications. Our group has particular experience in host innate immunology, particular neutrophil biology in the context of infection. Also the interplay between host and microbiome with infection. We have experience in advanced epithelial cell culture, neutrophil functional biology and co-culture experiments of bacterial pathogens and human innate immune cells.

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

  We would be interested in collaborating with any group interested in particularly; 1) Airway infections in tracheostomiesed, or intubated and ventilated children. Including infections in children in PICU. Also associated antimicrobial stewardship. 2) Recurrent middle ear infections in children, including acute otitis media and its complications. Also associated antimicrobial stewardship. 3) Infective problems that utilise our scientific expertise of innate immunology.

Jason Powell

• Organisation: Newcastle Univeristy
• Position: MRC Clinician Scientist and Honorary Consultant Paediatric ENT Surgeon
• E-mail: jason.powell@newcastle.ac.uk
• Phone: 01912448524
• Web: www.ncl.ac.uk/medical-sciences/people/profile/jasonpowell.html