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Gates Foundation seeking proposals on Characterizing and Tracking Antimicrobial Resistance

By Jonathan Eisen   Posted in .Featured Antimicrobials and Resistance Funding
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This seems like a really good opportunity for some interesting and critically important microbial diversity work: Novel Approaches to Characterizing and Tracking the Global Burden of Antimicrobial Resistance | Grand Challenges This link is to a call for proposals from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation on Antimicrobial Resistance.  Specifically they write: We are soliciting …

Well, I guess this means microbiome engineering has arrived (sort of)

By Jonathan Eisen   Posted in Funding
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Just got pointed (by Laurie Garrett) to this call for proposals from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation: Addressing Newborn and Infant Gut Health Through Bacteriophage-Mediated Microbiome Engineering. Some key lines from the call: A growing body of evidence suggests that healthy gut function early in life plays a significant role in adult wellbeing. It is further …