From the AMR - One Health Consortium family to yours, sending wishes of warmth, joy and tranquility this holiday season. Our thanks to you for sticking with us through this difficult year. We couldn’t have done it without you! Here’s to a cheerful holiday and a fresh 2022. As always, if you have something you would like to see in this newsletter, please email amronehealth@ucalgary.ca.
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AMR: A One Health Approach Virtual Seminar Series
That's a successful wrap up on the last session of the AMR: A One Health Approach Virtual Seminar Series! This program was offered through 24 virtual live sessions from September-December 2021, presented by 30 instructors from various institutions in Canada who addressed the issues associated with AMR and AMU from a holistic One Health approach. A special thank you to our project team, Samantha Larose, Golsa Kafili, Janelle Jiminez and Andrea Kormylo for making this program possible!
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Antimicrobials for Lunch
We would like to thank everyone who participated in the Antimicrobials for Lunch series. It was a great success and we are excited to see all of the progress in your research projects.
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BioAlberta 2021 Awards
Call for Nominations! Help us recognize the efforts of those who have invested their time and passion to develop a breakthrough innovation or whose leadership has achieved outstanding success! Click the links below to nominate a deserving individual or company today!
Scientific Achievement and Innovation Award - click here for more info
Company of the Year Award - click here for more info
Nomination deadline: Dec 15, 2021
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NSERC: Collaborative Research and Training Experience Program (CREATE)
The CREATE program supports the training and mentoring of teams of highly qualified students and postdoctoral fellows from Canada and abroad through the development of innovative training programs that
- encourage collaborative and integrative approaches, and address significant scientific challenges associated with Canada’s research priorities
- facilitate the transition of new researchers from trainees to productive employees in the Canadian workforce
Funding of up to $150,000 in the first year and $300,000 annually for a total of up to $1.65 million over six years. Click here for more details.
UofC RSO Pre-Application Deadline: Jan 10, 2022
LOI Deadline: May 1, 2022
Application Deadline: Sep 22, 2022
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IDRC Research Awards 2022-2023
This year IDRC will offer research awards related to these development areas or themes: Climate-Resilient Food Systems, Democratic and Inclusive Governance, Education and Science, Ethics in Development Research, Global Health, Policy and Evaluation, and Sustainable Inclusive Economies. If your research proposal is selected, you will join IDRC as a Research award recipient for a period of 12 months from 1 May 2022 to 30 April 2023 with a salary between $42,033 to $48,659 CAD to undertake research on the topic you have submitted. You will receive hands-on experience in research and program management and support, grant administration, and the creation, dissemination, and use of knowledge from an international perspective. Click here for more details.
Application deadline: Feb 1, 2022
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Our Researchers in the News
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UCeed Health venture Illucidx shares entrepreneurial journey
Cody Doolan
The team at Illucidx is focused on developing ultra-sensitive, rapid, dynamic, and customizable pathogen diagnostic solutions. The new platform technology, developed as a result of funding through the UCeed Health Fund, aims to accurately detect multiple infectious diseases and work with more complex sample types, including swabs, blood and stool. The key differentiator is that the platform can be taken into any remote or urban area and administered by anyone. Read more here.
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Optimal use of antibiotics in animals? There’s an app for that
John Conly, Dana Jelinski, Herman Barkema
A new tool to help veterinarians combat AMR has been developed though a collaboration between the University of Calgary, the Canadian Veterinary Medical Association (CVMA), and Stewardship of Antimicrobials by Veterinarians Initiative working with Firstline – Clinical Decisions. “This app gives veterinarians guidelines for prescribing antibiotics for species-specific conditions. This is a novel tool which we hope will help promote the optimal use of antibiotics with the aim of reducing antimicrobial resistance,” says Dr. John Conly. Read the full article here.
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Health Canada has approved the Pfizer COVID vaccine for kids. Here’s what you need to know
Jim Kellner
Health Canada is set to authorize the Pfizer COVID vaccine for use in children, meaning one of the biggest pediatric vaccination efforts in the country’s history will soon be underway. The vaccine for children, aged five to 11, uses the same mRNA technology as the adult version, but is about one-third the size. Dr. Jim Kellner, a professor of pediatrics at the UofC who also sits on the federal COVID-19 immunity task force, says he doesn’t know exactly what Pfizer’s reasoning is, but says dividing up adult doses into smaller amounts would be “error prone.” Read the full article here.
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Pandemic or endemic, testing is first step in preventing serious health outcomes
Dylan Pillai
Test, trace, isolate: three words that after 20 months of the COVID-19 pandemic, we’re all familiar with. Without the first step — testing — the chain reaction of response is slowed, and mitigation of the infection becomes much harder. Dr. Dylan Pillai, a local leader in COVID-19 testing was selected as a Peak Scholar in COVID-19 Innovation Excellence for his work developing a highly accurate, ultra-sensitive DNA-based point-of-care COVID-19 test. The test uses a technique called loop mediated amplification (LAMP) which detects the viral genetic material from a nose or throat swab. LAMP does not require expensive laboratory equipment and the result can be seen without instrumentation. Read more here.
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HUB_VPH Human - Animal One Health Conference
Lyon, France
Jan 26 - 28, 2022
The Veterinary Public Health Hub of Lyon (HUB_VPH) is organizing its first international conference entitled “The One Health concept at the Confluence of human & veterinary public health”. The conference aims to bring together researchers, industrial stakeholders and policy-makers to provide updates in research and innovation, discussing current unmet needs, proposing concrete ways to harness this knowledge and utilizing new tools to address these challenges. Click here for more information.
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Towards a One Health AMR Partnership
Online conference
Feb 3, 2022
Do you wish to learn more about and participate in the design process of the candidate One Health Antimicrobial Resistance Partnership? Save the date to join this conference on the new co-funded joint research programme! The aim is to bring together One Health AMR stakeholders – policymakers, civil society organizations, professionals, academics, and the private sector – to invigorate action and engagement to tackle AMR. Click here for more information.
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6th AMR Conference
Basel, Switzerland
Apr 7 - 8, 2022
The AMR conference is a platform for SMEs, start-ups, big pharma, academia, investors and public institutions to discuss strategies and the specific challenges faced by SMEs in bringing new antimicrobial treatments and diagnostics to the market. Click here for more information.
Call for poster abstracts
The conference will showcase the most innovative approaches to fighting AMR, and is inviting scientists from SMEs and academic institutions to submit an abstract for a poster presentation on a variety of AMR topics. Click here to learn more!
Submission deadline: Jan 12, 2022.
Start-up competition
Early stage ventures fighting drug resistant bacterial infections in the therapeutics or diagnostics area are invited to apply to pitch at the AMR Conference 2022. You will receive the opportunity to make a 5-minute-pitch of your venture in front of potential funders and investors. Click here to learn more.
Application deadline: Jan 31, 2022
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International Conference on One Health 2022
London, United Kingdom, May 26 - 27, 2022
Paris, France, July 19 - 20, 2022
One Health Conference aims to bring together leading academic scientists, researchers and research scholars to exchange and share their experiences and research results on all aspects of One Health Conference. It also provides a premier interdisciplinary platform for researchers, practitioners, and educators to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, and concerns as well as practical challenges encountered and solutions adopted in the fields of One Health Conference.
Call for Contributions
Prospective authors are kindly encouraged to contribute to and help shape the conference through submissions of their research abstracts, papers and e-posters. Also, high quality research contributions describing original and unpublished results of conceptual, constructive, empirical, experimental, or theoretical work in all areas of One Health are cordially invited for presentation at the conference.
London - click here for more info
Paris - click here for more info
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The following documents provide updates on the conduct of research and clinical trails for researchers and research teams. Please visit the following pages to keep up-to-date with institutional specific directives.
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