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

General Information

• Project title: Bioelectrical antimicrobial susceptivity testing in fungi
• Type: Project looking for partner
• Organisation: i2sysbio
• Country: Spain (ES)
• Career stage: Early Career Researcher (up to 8 years** since PhD).

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

  Plants (incl. trees and crops)

• Keywords:

  point of care rapid detection antifungal resistance fungus fungal infection

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

  We have developed a method to rapidly identify fungal death within 20 minutes of treatment with antifungal compounds. Our approach involves utilizing a specialized device that employs electrical currents and microscopy to observe the response of the fungi to these compounds. We are currently seeking an expert in fungal infections who can collaborate with us by providing clinical samples of fungi for further testing working in Spain. Specifically, according to the call, the expert must be based in hospitals, primary health care or public health administration of the Spanish National Health System (or Accredited Health Research Institutes (IIS))

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

  Our project focuses on evaluating the effectiveness of antifungal compounds and assessing antifungal resistance. We achieve this by employing a specialized device that applies an electric current to the fungi. The fungi\'s response to this current provides crucial information about their viability, which we measure by analyzing the light intensity emitted from membrane potential markers.

iago grobas

• Organisation: i2sysbio
• Position: postdoctoral researcher
• E-mail: ialogro@uv.es
• Phone: 690653949
• Web: www.thesimbiosys.com/