For this month of March, we bring you an interview with Mr. Michael Craig, director of the CDC's Antibiotic Resistance Coordination and Strategy, where we learn more about the role and work of public health agencies, how the CDC works in its strategy against antibiotic resistance, and the importance of prevention. In our news section, we present to you a recent publication on how the WHO antimicrobial resistance global action plan and the COVID-19 pandemic have impacted the global consumption of...
Mar 07, 2022•1 hr 5 min
Happy 2022 to you all! We are glad start a new year with you with this episode. This time, we bring you an interview with our first UAC PhD graduate, Christer Malmberg, who defended his industry-PhD thesis last year, where he developed a new rapid method of testing antibiotic susceptibility. We talk about his experience throughout his studies, what this new method brings to the table, and what he wishes for the future. In the news section, we continue talking about diagnostics, looking into a re...
Feb 07, 2022•1 hr 3 min
Welcome to another regular episode at The AMR Studio! We are happy to be back with our interviews, and we bring you today the work and broad experience of professor and GARDP's Scientific Director Laura Piddock, an incredible scientists and AMR policy advocate. She shares with us her path, insights and experiences, and inspires us for the future. In the news section, we have for you two recent articles looking into new antibiotics, with two different but equally interesting approaches: chemical ...
Dec 13, 2021•1 hr 2 min
Welcome to the second part of this special series with occasion of the antimicrobial week. To raise awareness from and to the AMR community, today we bring you another four researchers at the Uppsala Antibiotic Center that focus their work beyond the lab and development of new treatments. Listen to learn what they are working on, from farms to hospitals, and what they want you to learn! Check out the show notes at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episodex8/. Follow our updates on twitter on www.twit...
Nov 22, 2021•25 min
Happy World Antimicrobial Awareness Week! For this year's campaign theme “Spread Awareness, Stop Resistance” we thought to tackle the concept of “awareness” from a different angle. We believe that awareness of the work of others within the AMR community is also important, and that sharing the understanding, viewpoints, and perspectives of AMR professionals can have a great impact on the work that we all do. In this first episode of two, we sat down to talk to five researchers at the Uppsala Anti...
Nov 18, 2021•32 min
Welcome to another month with the AMR Studio! For this occasion, we sat down with Dr. Manica Balasegaram to talk about his path from his years as a physician to his current position as director of the Global Antibiotic Research & Development Partnership (GARDP). Listen to learn how he entered the AMR world and the aspirations and current work done at GARDP. This was such an inspirational interview! In the news section, we talk about a recent review/perspective piece on the current state and ...
Oct 04, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Happy September to you all! Welcome to another episode of The AMR Studio, this time featuring an interview with artist Anna Dumitriu. Tune in to listen to how Anna became so interested in bacteria and antibiotic resistance that she decided to make it a central part of her artwork. We also talk about the implications of science in art, how art and science can help one-another and what she aims to create with her pieces. In the news, we bring you a recent study looking into the details of access t...
Sep 06, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Happy month of August to you all! In this episode, we feature an interview with Dr. David Hyun, director of the antibiotic resistance project at The Pew Charitable Trusts. We start by talking about David's journey to his current position and Pew's approach to support policy change and research on AMR in the United States, before diving into their latest publication looking at antibiotic prescriptions during the first months of the COVID-19. In the news section, we cover a recent article studying...
Aug 02, 2021•1 hr 3 min
Welcome to another episode of The AMR Studio! Dive in to learn the story of Dr. Luisa De Sordi, a microbiologist working with bacteriophages and gut bacteria to study the relationship between our digestive system, the microbiota and their associated phages. We also go through a brief history of phage therapy and its future ahead! On this occasion, we also bring you a packed news section covering a recent article looking into the impact of travel on the human resistome, and highlighting some othe...
Jul 05, 2021•56 min
Happy month of June to you all, and welcome to another episode of The AMR Studio! Tune in to our interview with Dr. Ana Rita Brochado, group leader at the University of Würzburg and looking into how antibiotic combinations affect bacterial growth using high-throughput methods. You will listen to an insightful and inspiring chat with a young, successful researcher that knows the power of collaborations and multidisciplinary work in AMR. In the news section, we bring you two recent scientific arti...
Jun 07, 2021•1 hr
Welcome to another month at The AMR Studio. In this one, we bring you Rachel Irwin, an anthropologist that has recently focus on studying the visual culture of AMR. In this interview, you'll catch us talking about her work, but also about her path into AMR, the hurdles and happy stories, and some very interesting personal insights. In the news, we cover the latest WHO report, looking into the current antibacterial pipeline, and a very recent paper by the BARNARDS network, exploring the character...
May 03, 2021•1 hr 1 min
Welcome to this special episode at The AMR Studio in collaboration with Drug Safety Matters podcast. As a follow up to Uppsala Health Summit on “Managing antimicrobial resistance through behaviour change” we spoke to three key participants – Otto Cars, Eldar Shafir and Vanessa Carter – to learn more. We talked to them about how the COVID-19 pandemic might affect AMR globally, how the context around us influences the decisions we make, and how patients’ stories can help communicate the urgency of...
Apr 27, 2021•48 min
Welcome back to The AMR Studio dear listeners. This month, we bring you an interview with Helle Aagaard, deputy director at ReAct, who has recently, as lead author, published a new report looking into sustainable solutions for access to effective antibiotics for everyone, everywhere. Listen to her story to learn more about her background and entry into policy and advocacy, and some insights into the new report. Fixing the problems around antibiotics all around the world is no easy feat, but what...
Apr 12, 2021•58 min
Starting March the best way, with an AMR Studio episode! This time we bring you an old friend of the podcast, Mirko Ancillotti, right before his doctoral defense, talking to us about his path from philosophy and ethics into biology and public health. We also converse about his latest results on public preferences regarding antibiotic treatment, and about public misconceptions when it comes to antibiotic resistance. In the news section, we chat about why resistance evolves so quickly against anti...
Mar 01, 2021•1 hr 5 min
Welcome, bienvenidos, välkommna to 2021 dear listeners! In this kickstart episode after the New Years hiatus we bring you an in-depth interview with Linus Sandegren, coordinator at UAC, but also researcher and teacher at Uppsala University. Learn how his early research in a topic quite unknown led him to work on AMR, and what his group is currently studying. He also updates us on how the center has been doing over these past years and what what we can expect in the near future. In the news secti...
Feb 01, 2021•1 hr 12 min
Welcome to our last 2020 episode, listeners! For this occasion, we were thrilled to interview the last of our associate senior lecturers, Dr. Lindon Moodie. His path through the field of organic chemistry has brought him to AMR recently and in this conversation we learn how he is approaching the task of finding new antibiotics. In the news section, we close the year with a recent publication by one of our PhD students, whom worked to identify the behavioural motivations behind the use of diagnos...
Dec 07, 2020•54 min
Welcome to our special contribution for World Antimicrobial Awareness Week 2020! In this episode we focus on the aspect of human behaviour in the AMR context. Why is it important? How can we motivate people to change the way the relate to antibiotics? What role do we all play in this? This are the very question that the Uppsala Health Summit will focus on next spring, and the questions that we bring to you today. For this episode, we have interviewed Dr. Ulf Magnusson, veterinarian and chair of ...
Nov 18, 2020•29 min
Welcome to November at The AMR Studio! This month we bring you the cutting-edge research conducted by one of the associate senior lecturers at the UAC, Dr. Teresa Zardán Gómez de la Torre, who is working on developing an easy, affordable, and stable new diagnostic tool based on nanotechnology. Listen to how nano-materials could be the next answer to provide low-resources settings with reliable testing for infectious diseases and/or resistance variants. In the news section, we talk about the PAST...
Nov 02, 2020•39 min
This month we bring you the work and career of Dr. Olof Lindahl, one of the associate senior lecturers at UAC, working in the field of business studies applied to AMR. In the news section, we present to you a new innovative method to test how antibiotics combinations work, and cover a recent article looking into the evolution of plasmid stability in relation to antibiotic treatment. We hope you enjoy this episode and looking to having you back next month. Check relevant links and material at www...
Oct 05, 2020•1 hr 3 min
Welcome back to The AMR Studio after the summer vacation! ☀️ Today we bring you a long-waited interview with CEFAIA's founder & AMR scientist Dr. Ursula Theuretzbacher. Learn about her career, current interests and work through our conversation, very enlightening! In the news section we cover the current launching of a big international collaborative & non-profit project, The AMR Action Fund, and a recent publication going in depth about the pitfalls of the term "antimicrobial resistance...
Sep 07, 2020•1 hr 2 min
July is here, and so is the heat! This month at The AMR Studio we bring you the work of Dr. Peter Jørgensen, from the Stockholm Resilience Center. Listen to this episode to learn about what resilience means, how it is related to AMR and how an evolutionary biology perspective can help achieve a more sustainable future. In the news section, we cover a recent published work looking into the background understanding and explanations of AMR in the public, plus an exciting update on how the promising...
Jul 06, 2020•55 min
We welcome the summer at The AMR Studio! This month, we bring you a deep conversation with Dr. Johan Bengtsson Palme from the CARe center in Gothenburg about the role of the environment in the AMR problem and how his group focuses on studying it. Dive deep into this essential part of "one health" that is so frequently talked about. In the news, we feature two recent UAC articles! Our PhD student Viktor Rognås has published his work on understanding the pharmacokinetics of colistin in very sick p...
Jun 01, 2020•1 hr 9 min
May the 4th be with you! Welcome back to our studio, fellow listeners. We are thrilled to bring you an episode looking into some of the newest approaches within AMR research. First, we feature an interview with bioinformatician Dr. François Lebreton, whose primary work consists of using DNA sequence analysis to study outbreaks of resistant strains. In the news section, we talk about machine learning and present two recently published articles about its use in pathogen identification, susceptibil...
May 04, 2020•59 min
Hi there! Whether you are still at work and doing normal life, or staying home during these difficult times, we got you! Welcome to another episode full of relevant topics around antibiotics and resistance. This month we have an interview with veterinarian Dr. Kristina Osbjer, whose work in Cambodia has helped to set up a multi-sectoral national action plan following up recommendations from the global action plan by WHO. Tune in to learn the process and challenges of such work and why these are ...
Apr 06, 2020•1 hr 6 min
Hi listeners! New month, new episode at The AMR Studio. Spring is around the corner and today we bring you an enthusiastic and very eloquent interview with Dr. John Rex, a former infectious diseases doctor that currently works, as he puts it, in developing new drugs, making development of new drugs possible, or making sure people get paid to develop new drugs. Join us in a deep conversation about antibiotics research & development, the antibiotic market and current new ideas not to let this ...
Mar 02, 2020•1 hr 1 min
Welcome to another month at The AMR Studio. We are happy to bring you something special this time: a chronicle of a very cool event we were at this past December, a hackathon! Press play to learn what a hackathon is, the projects worked on during the weekend, impressions from some of the people attending, and of course, who won the grand prize! Next month we will be back to our regular structure, but meanwhile we hope you enjoy this one. Check relevant links and material at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr...
Feb 03, 2020•38 min
Welcome to the "new" roaring 20s! Celebrate the new year and decade with us by listening to our latest episode, featuring an interview with Dr. Jasper Littmann, Specialist Director for Strategy and Development at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health. In this interview, we learn how an ethicist works when translating knowledge into action within policy making, the challenges in communicating with policy makers, and how the AMR field has changed in the last years. In the news section, we cover...
Jan 13, 2020•51 min
Welcome back to our regular episodes! Join us and Catherine Will, from the University of Sussex, in a conversation about how people understand the messages about AMR and how the different mobilizations, stewardship measures, and campaigns around antimicrobial resistance attend to questions of inequality and social injustice. In our news section, we summarize the recent published work by the Wellcome Trust on reframing and communication of resistance, and do a run-through of the latest release of...
Dec 02, 2019•48 min
Here we bring you our second (and last) piece of the special on communicating AMR for this year's awareness week. Click play to listen to Amy Reid, from the World Health Organization working at the AMR team, being interviewed about their work dynamics, strategies, challenges and outlooks when it comes to increase global awareness on AMR. WHO is the main orchestrator of this global awareness annual campaign and their work is essential in this area. Check relevant links and material at www.uac.uu....
Nov 20, 2019•35 min
Welcome to this first part of our special series for the World Antibiotic Awareness Week 2019 campaign! In this episode you will briefly be introduced to the Swedish health care system, and then you will listen to two interviews of people working with communicating AMR in the Swedish context. First, we have Gunilla Stridh Ekman from STRAMA, presenting the work done mostly at the local level around Uppsala. Afterwards, we have an interview with Ulrica Dohnhammar, from The Swedish Public Health Ag...
Nov 18, 2019•59 min
