JPIAMR has announced the results of the 17th call for transnational research projects in the field of antibiotic resistance. Among the thirteen awarded projects, three will be carried out by research teams based in Wroclaw and Warsaw. The total amount of funding provided by the NCN for these projects is over PLN 4.2 million.
The principal objective of this year's call Interventions moving forward to promote action to counteract the emergence and spread of bacterial and fungal resistance and to improve treatments, was to take action against the growing global threat of increased spread of antimicrobial (antibacterial and antifungal) resistance by funding international collaborative research projects aimed at improving, comparing and evaluating the efficacy, cost-effectiveness and uptake of existing interventions against bacterial or fungal infections and/or designing new interventions against fungal infections.
The IMPACT call was open to scientists working in Polish research organisations, who intend to carry out international research projects in collaboration with partners from 19 countries around the world. A total of 154 international consortia submitted proposals in answer to the call, and thirteen were recommended for funding. The three winning Polish research teams will receive funding of over PLN 4.2 million from NCN to further their research.
- PHASEK – Combination of bacteriophages and other antimicrobial agents as a strategy to combat multidrug-resistant E. coli and K. pneumoniae bacteria
The Principal Investigator is Prof. Krystyna Dabrowska, PhD, from the Ludwik Hirszfeld Institute of Immunology and Experimental Therapy of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Wrocław. The project has been awarded over than PLN 1.2 million.
- PHAGES-AntiPERS – Strategies for phage therapy against bacterial persister cells
The leader of the Polish team is Prof. Zuzanna Drulis-Kawa, PhD, from the University of Wroclaw. The project budgeted over PLN 1.2 million.
- FunHitDisco –Platform for high-throughput search for antifungal compounds.
The Principal Investigator is Dr. Maria Klimecka from the University of Warsaw. The project has been awarded over PLN 1.7 million.
The call results are available on the JPIAMR network
List of projects including Polish Research teams qualified for funding, in .pdf