Online national workshop on co-infections (involving any pathogen group) will be held on 28th March 2022 from 13:00 to 16:30
Mechanistic understanding of co-infection scenarios is a critical knowledge gap that precludes effective diagnosis and therapy and challenges antimicrobial stewardship. The main objective of this new collaborative project funded by the Medical Research Council (MRC) between its Centres for Medical Mycology (Exeter), Virus Research (Glasgow), and Molecular Bacteriology and Infection (London), and with the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Parasitology (Glasgow), is to strengthen UK-based research in the area of co-morbidities, particularly around co-infections, that are understudied and often occur in complex disease settings.
We have been funded by the MRC to host an online national workshop on human co-infections (involving any pathogen group) that aims to establish new networks between our Centres and the UK-wide community and to identify the challenges, opportunities for research, and the scientific priorities going forward. Following this workshop will be a national call for projects, which will provide seed-corn funding (up to £50k) to establish partnerships that facilitate new research collaborations in co-infections.
Speakers:
Amy Pedersen (University of Edinburgh): An ecological approach to coinfection
Darius Armstrong-James (Imperial College London): Modulation of macrophage responses to Aspergillus fumigatus by mycobacteria
Sarah Coulthurst (University of Dundee): Microbial warfare mediated by the Type VI secretion system of Serratia marcescens
Lisa Reynolds (University of Victoria): The impact of helminth colonization and subsequent deworming on co-infection with bacterial pathogens
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A new national call for projects will be announced following the workshop, which will provide seed-corn funding to establish partnerships that facilitate new research collaborations in co-infections. Priority will be given to those projects tackling co-infections that have an impact on human health, as established at the workshop. Each seed-corn project must:
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Need to demonstrate how this funding will support new collaborative ventures to tackle the key priorities;
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Involve principal investigators from at least two of the four Centres and may include (or be led by) one or more investigators from other UK institutions^;
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Demonstrate a route to long term collaboration and further funding; and
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Involve an element of engagement, which will be supported through the resources already available in our Centres.
^ Projects involving clinical collaborations and those led by Early Career Researchers will be particularly encouraged.