Antimicrobial Resistance
Convened by Institute on Science for Global Policy
Houston, TX, United States
03-19-2013 - 03-22-2013
The topic of Emerging and Persistent Infectious Diseases (EPID) has been identified by participating governments and the private sector as a major priority for the Institute on Science for Global Policy (ISGP). Food Safety, Security,and Defense (FSSD) and Synthetic Biology (SB), as they relate to EPID, were also identified as priorities. Aspects of these topics were addressed at this invitation only ISGP conference, EPID: Focus on Antimicrobial Resistance.
Conference AnnouncementPolicy Position papers
ISGP Podcast: Hard to Resist
Dr. Timothy Palzkill
Antibiotic resistance is a serious and growing public health concern. Infections caused by methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (a.k.a. MRSA) a...
ISGP Podcast: License to Build
Dr. Eriko Takano and Dr. Rainer Breitling
The "building blocks" of synthetic biology can create new antimicrobials while switching the process of antibiotic discovery from industry-level to ac...
ISGP Podcast: The Non-Resident's Evil
Dr. Thomas O’Brien and Dr. John Stelling
Antibiotic resistance is poised to be one of the biggest public health challenges of our time, and some experts suggest implementing a global antibiot...
ISGP Podcast: Resisting Resistance
ISGP PODCAST summarizes the debate of Dr. Eili Klein's paper, "How Misaligned Incentives Influence Antibiotic Prescribing and Resistance"
The debate of "How Misaligned Incentives Influence Antibiotic Prescribing and Resistance," a paper by Dr. Eili Y. Klein, is summarized in this lively ...
Global Infection Prevention: A Strategy to Minimize Antibiotic Resistance
Richard P. Wenzel, M.D., M.Sc.
Professor and Former Chair, Department of Internal Medicine
Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States
Summary
Infecti...
Antimicrobial Resistance A New Drug Discovery Perspective Using Synthetic Biology
Eriko Takano, Ph.D., Rainer Breitling, Ph.D.
Professor of Synthetic Biology and Professor of Systems Biology, Manchester Institute of
Biotechnology, Faculty of Life Sciences, University of Manch...
The Future of Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance
Brad Spellberg, M.D.
Associate Professor of Medicine, Associate Medical Director for Inpatient Services, Los Angeles
Biomedical Research Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical ...
Managing Antibiotic Resistance in Animal Agriculture amidst Conflicting Moral Beliefs and Scientific Uncertainty
H. Morgan Scott, D.V.M., Ph.D.
Department of Diagnostic Medicine and Pathobiology,
Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas, United States
Summary
The moral imperative to ...
Mitigating Antibiotic Resistance with DNA Sequence Information
Timothy Palzkill, Ph.D.
Professor and Chair, Department of Pharmacology
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, United States
Summary
Antibiotic resistance is a gr...
Surveillance of Antibiotic Resistance Gene Epidemics
Thomas F. O’Brien M.D, John Stelling, M.D., M.P.H.
Co-Directors, World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Surveillance of Antimicrobial
Resistance,
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women...