CDC Call for Innovative AR Proposals
CDC is looking for new ways to identify and evaluate strategies to combat antibiotic resistance (AR). The agency collaborates with multiple researchers to improve understanding of AR in healthcare facilities, in the food supply, across communities, and in the environment (surface water and soil) to determine the potential impact on human health and identify ways to protect human health. The topics change year to year based on scientific needs.
Funding will be determined through a competitive selection process, based on funds available and the following 6 categories with 35 topics focused on AR:
- New diagnostic, sequencing, and metagenomic tools for AR detection and improved antibiotic use
- International transmission, colonization, and prevention of AR pathogens
- Domestic transmission, colonization, and prevention of AR pathogens and C. difficile infections
- Develop human microbiome disruption indices relevant to AR
- Resistant pathogens and genes in water systems and the environment and their contribution to human infections
- Improving antibiotic stewardship
Interested applicants should visit the full web announcement. Researchers are expected to write their own statement of work to be considered for funding.