Submit Feedback on NIAID’s Research Framework for Antibacterial Resistance

Submit Feedback on NIAID’s Research Framework for Antibacterial Resistance by March 8, 2019.

NIAID is refining the five-year strategic framework for antibacterial resistance (AR) research and development, Antibacterial Resistance Program: Current Status and Future Directions pdf.

Published in 2014, the framework identified the following priorities:

• Systems Biology and Antibacterial Resistance: New Directions for Drug Discovery
• Harnessing the Immune System to Combat Bacterial Infections
• Disarm, But Leave Unharmed: Exploring Anti-Virulence Strategies
• Synthetic Microbiota: An Ecobiological Approach
• Less Is Better: Diagnostics to Guide Use of Narrow-Spectrum Therapeutics
• Exploiting Natural Predators: The Specificity of Phage Therapy
• Teaching Old Drugs New Tricks: Extending the Clinical Utility of Antibacterial Drugs

NIAID seeks community feedback to inform an update of the framework. Send your comments identifying:

• Additional research activities needed to help advance the above-listed strategic approaches
• Additional strategic approaches or technologies that have the potential to transform our understanding of and ability to prevent, diagnose, or treat resistant bacterial infections

To submit a response, send a PDF or MS Word document of 500 words or less to NIAIDAntibioticResistanceRFI2019@niaid.nih.gov. The deadline to reply is March 8, 2019. Take care to avoid sharing any proprietary, classified, confidential, trade secret, or sensitive information in your response.