If you are on LinkedIn, don't forget to follow us and keep up to date with the latest theme activities, funding calls and job opportunities! Let's connect👇📰 ▶️ linkedin.com/company/nihr-i…

We are delighted to announce that the United Nations Foundation (United Nations Foundation) is joining the 'Trailblazers in AMR' award programme, co-designed by the Fleming Initiative and CSIRO, as a nominating organisation. Learn more ⤵️ fleminginitiative.org/post/amr-trail…

Another project funded through our 2nd Pilot Project Call is led by Dr Rachel Lai 👏. Her work focuses on fast-tracking infection diagnosis with cutting-edge technology, leveraging the convergence of microbiology, analytical chemistry, and bioinformatics ⚡️👩‍🔬

We are looking to collaborate with members of the public to co-design social media video(s) on the topic of antibiotic use and antimicrobial resistance. Find more details and sign-up here ⤵️ tinyurl.com/makeamrvideo

Huge congratulations to Surgery and Cancer's Critical Care Research team for winning one of the first-ever National Institute for Health and Care Research Impact Prizes! 🥳 Their work has transformed the care of critically ill patients with sepsis & #COVID19, saving lives worldwide. 👏 imperial.ac.uk/news/262294/cr…

Join our seminar next week with Prof Sarah Fidler. She will be talking about her work in the RIOtrial using Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies (BNABs) to control HIV off antiretroviral therapy. 🗓️1 April, 1-2pm 👉 imperial.ac.uk/events/191583/…

Our next Invention for Innovation - Product Development Awards opens on 9 April 2025! Sign up to our webinar on 10 April, 10am - 12pm to find out more about this #fundingopportunity ➡️ nihr.ac.uk/funding/produc…

Huge congratulations to the team behind Dragonfly, a groundbreaking portable diagnostic platform! 🧪 This power-free tool delivers results in under five minutes, making rapid, accessible mpox testing a reality! 👏 ▶️nature.com/articles/s4146…

Today we highlight another exciting initiative funded through our 2nd Pilot Project Call. Led by Dr Myrsini Kaforou , this project will leverage the power of AI to ensure that hard-to-diagnose symptoms—such as fevers in children—are no longer a limitation in paediatric healthcare.

🚨👉Exciting Job Opportunity Alert to all Research Nurses with an interest in infectious diseases and/or innovative trials 👩‍⚕️👨‍⚕️ Chris Chiu

🎉👏We're thrilled to highlight the final project in this Pilot Project funding round 👏🎉 Led by Dr. Frances Davies and Clinical Scientist Anna Morkowska, this exciting initiative focuses on tackling antimicrobial resistance #AMR in hospital settings. ▶️imperialbrc.nihr.ac.uk/research/infec…

🚨 Need fast, accurate infection & AMR testing for your research? The Colebrook Lab has you covered! 🏥 Co-located with the Imperial College Healthcare Trust Diagnostic Lab, the Colebrook Lab provides advanced facility & accessibility to power your work. 🔗imperialbrc.nihr.ac.uk/facilities/col…

Congratulations to our Prof Chris Chiu (Chris Chiu) who has been elected to the Academy of Medical Sciences Fellowship this year. 🎉 Prof Chiu is an expert in experimental medicine methods including human challenge and vaccine studies.💉 👉imperial.ac.uk/news/264314/si…

👏We're excited to showcase 10 innovative Pilot Projects funded by our theme in 2024. Kicking things off: a project developing a low-cost, rapid, and easy-to-use test to distinguish bacterial from viral infections right at the point of care🩺 See more : ▶️imperialbrc.nihr.ac.uk/research/infec…

🫁 Can a child’s breath reveal the cause of their chest infection? The researchers funded by our theme Pilot Project Grant are testing if chemical ‘signatures’ in exhaled breath can tell viral from bacterial infections in real time. Rebecca Mitting NIHR Imperial BRC National Institute for Health and Care Research

🧐Can we track a virus mutating inside the human body in real time? One of our funded pilot projects, led by Anika Singanayagam, is doing just that, using a specialised clinical trial called a human challenge study (aka: Controlled Human Infection Model - CHIM) 👉imperialbrc.nihr.ac.uk/research/infec…

A great privilege to work with Dr Julie McDonald lab CBRB on this new paper, now out in Nature Communications - how #antibiotic-related changes in gut #nutrients and #metabolites promote #VRE colonisation: doi.org/10.1038/s41467… Imperial Hepatology Metabolism, Digestion & Reproduction NIHR Imperial BRC Infection & AMR

Very pleased to see this out in Clinical Microbiology and Infection - what non-antimicrobial options are there for recurrent #UTI, and what might be the role for #FMT? clinicalmicrobiologyandinfection.com/article/S1198-… Rohma Ghani Ed Kuijper Metabolism, Digestion & Reproduction NIHR Imperial BRC Infection & AMR