🚨 Big news: The U.S. District Court has ruled in our favor, thwarting the FDA’s attempt to impose excessive regulations on laboratory-developed testing procedures (LDTs). This is a win for labs, patients and innovation! Ruling and opinion: amp.org/advocacy/amp-v…

70 years ago Today, Jonas Salk's polio vaccine was declared safe and successful, Salk was hailed as a "miracle worker" and the day almost became a U.S. national holiday.

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Joseph Lister, the man who first thought that surgeons could prevent infecting their patients by washing and disinfecting their hands with carbolic acid. This idea initially earned him ridicule, but he's now remembered as the father of antiseptic surgery.

The 2025 Vivli AMR Surveillance Data Challenge, funded by Johnson & Johnson, Paratek, Pfizer, and an NIH award* is now OPEN. Head to lnkd.in/djaXB-PX to read about the challenge and how to enter. Expressions of interest must be received by 26-May-2025. #AMR

Happy Dave Brubeck Day. 🤓

IDSA ASM new meeting on antimicrobial resistance (IMARI). Bringing our community back together again. asm.org/press-releases…

Today in 1796, Edward Jenner administered the first successful vaccination against smallpox, which was also the first vaccination ever. Jenner is often called "the father of immunology": his work likely saved more lives than the work of any other human.

The deadline for submission of expressions of interest is approaching. We look forward to seeing all the great ideas! linkedin.com/posts/vivli_am…

Check out this new scheme for Class D b-lactamases. SAND: a comprehensive annotation of class D β-lactamases using structural alignment-based numbering | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/aa…

👏FDA accepts New Drug Application for zoliflodacin — an investigational first-in-class oral antibiotic for uncomplicated #gonorrhoea. 🌍 Developed in collaboration with @InnovivaSTx, it could become the first new oral antibiotic for gonorrhoea in over 30 years. 🔗 Read the

Some sad news. George will be missed legacy.com/us/obituaries/…

121 years ago Today, Marie Skłodowska Curie went before the examination committee for her Ph.D., becoming the first woman in France to receive a doctoral degree. Later in this same year she was awarded a Nobel Prize for her research.

In people’s minds, July 6 rings no bells. But 139 years ago Today, Louis Pasteur successfully used the vaccine for rabies for the first time on a human, a 9-year-old named Joseph Meister, after the boy was badly mauled by a rabid dog.

Major UK project to tackle AMR closed by aid cuts - AMR Insights amr-insights.eu/major-uk-proje…

So excited for this meeting- a long overdue follow on to ICAAC. Submit your abstracts and hope to see you there

Born Today in 1920, Rosalind Franklin was chemist and X-ray crystallographer whose work was central to the understanding of the molecular structures of DNA (deoxyribonucleic acid), RNA (ribonucleic acid), viruses, coal, and graphite

Trying to crowdsource some information: For the upcoming IMARI meeting we are doing a retrospective on projects highlighted in the New Agents sessions at ICCAC/Microbe in the past and are missing info for years 2015-2018. Did you or a colleague speak? Please reply in the comments

Born Today in 1900, Hans Krebs won the 1953 Nobel Prize for Medicine for the discovery in living organisms of the series of chemical reactions known as the tricarboxylic acid cycle (also called the citric acid cycle, or Krebs cycle).

Born Today in 1918, Katherine Johnson was the mathematician whose calculations of orbital mechanics as a NASA employee were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights [✏️ Steve Breen, San Diego Union Tribune]