The American Society for Microbiology’s ASM Biothreats 2018 meeting will be held February 12-14, 2018 in Baltimore, Maryland. ASM Biothreats includes tracks on high consequence pathogen research, biological threat reduction, product development, and policy. Thought leaders in academia, industry and government will gather to present and discuss the latest developments in this emerging field. Highlighted
SMi Group’s 20th Annual Superbugs & Superdrugs conference will take place 19-20 March, 2018 in London, UK. This leading event provides a focal point to push industry collaboration through updates on clinical advancements and investment opportunities. The threat of AMR is regularly making front page news but what is the industry actually doing? Are drug
The 10th Annual Summer Institute in Statistics and Modeling in Infectious Diseases (SISMID) will be held July 9-25, 2018 at the University of Washington in Seattle, WA. SISMID is designed to introduce infectious disease researchers to modern methods of statistical analysis and mathematical modeling and to introduce statisticians and mathematical modelers to the statistical and
The CBRNe Convergence 2018 Congress & Exhibition will take place November 6-8, 2018 in Orlando, Florida. This must-attend annual congress for the global CBRNE community is now in its 11th year, offering streamed sessions, demonstrations, poster presentations and exhibits from the leading CBRNE solution providers. The conference program is planned by Gwyn Winfield, editor of
U.S. Antibiotic Awareness Week is November 12-18, 2018. Each year in the United States, at least 2 million people become infected with bacteria that are resistant to antibiotics and at least 23,000 people die as a direct result of these infections. Many more will die from complications by an antibiotic-resistant infection. Join the Centers for Disease
DARPA program manager Col. Matthew Hepburn will discuss and demonstrate several novel technologies for responding to pandemics during a seminar event at Georgetown University on November 16, 2018. For sixty years, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) of the Department of Defense has held to a singular and enduring mission: to make pivotal investments
The Conference on Clinical Research for Rare Diseases - CCRRD 2018 - will be held November 28, 2018 in Rockville, Maryland. Many fundamental advances in medicine have come from the study of rare diseases and these have benefited common diseases. In order to assure the future of this research, the training of the next generation of
The London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine will host “A topsy-turvy world where pathogen sequencing leads infection,” a lecture by Sharon Peacock describing how sequencing is being used to redesign hospital infection prevention and control on 26 November 2018. The event is part of the LSHTM’s Global Health Lecture Series. Sharon Peacock was previously
On December 3, 2018, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Veterinary Medicine (CVM), with participation from the FDA’s Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research (CBER), will hold a public webinar about genome editing in animals. Genome editing is an innovative and rapidly evolving technology that offers many promising benefits to both human and
