The ORC line encourages curiosity-driven research via open calls for research over a period of several year with broad, interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary consortia. This NWA project will prepare the Netherlands for the time when antibiotics are much less effective in the prevention and eradication of infection due to AntiMicrobial Resistance (AMR).
Gert-Jan de Bruijn will lead a Work Programme (WP) that aims to understand how early awareness of emergent diseases can be enhanced in society through historical analysis and system thinking approaches. Further, the WP focuses on how technological tools and solutions for these emergent diseases can be better implemented in society and healthcare institutions.
Bas Zaat will lead a WP on development of novel antimicrobial strategies as alternatives for antibiotics, to prevent and treat infections of orthopedic (implant) infections. Moreover, safety of novel antimicrobials will be assessed in a “Safe-by-design” approach in collaboration with RIVM. The strong complementarity of the groups of de Bruijn and Zaat will offer an excellent opportunity to combine research on novel high tech developments and on public awareness and translation, one of the major NWA goals.
The consortium is a collaboration between key stakeholders and academic institutes in the Netherlands, and will employ some 20 PhD candidates and several post-doc positions. NWO has awarded the project with 9700 K EUR.
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