Uppsala University is awarded major funding for research on antimicrobial resistance
Researchers at Uppsala University have been awarded a substantial portion of the funding from the Swedish Research Council’s national research programme on antibiotic resistance. This national research programme, led by the Swedish Research Council, is dedicated to mobilizing top-tier scientific expertise from many research disciplines to address this urgent issue.
Fourteen Uppsala researchers will receive 48 million SEK out of the 120 million SEK available in this year’s special grant calls, underscoring Uppsala University's critical role in addressing one of the most pressing global health challenges of our times.
Antibiotic resistance poses significant risks to modern medicine, with infections increasingly becoming harder to treat due to the diminishing effectiveness of existing antibiotics. The funding aims to advance innovative approaches to combat antibiotic resistance, supporting projects that target understanding resistance mechanisms, the development of new diagnostics, treatments, and preventive strategies across three independent calls: a project call, a proof-of-concept call & an international call within the European JPIAMR program.
Uppsala University’s success in this funding round highlights its excellence and leadership in tackling complex challenges in health and medicine, with benefits extending far beyond Sweden’s borders.
Awarded projects:
- ABC-F-mediated antibiotic resistance in clinically relevant bacterial species - mechanisms and implications. PI: Magnus Johansson
- Antibiotic-free and stimuli-responsive hybrid electrospun wound dressings. PI. Alexandra Teleki
- Antibiotic action and bacterial resistance development in infected human tissue - insights from organoid modelling. PI: Mikael Sellin
- Determination of phenotypic antibiotic resistance at the ultimate susceptibility threshold. PI: Johan Elf
- Hidden threats: How do small cryptic plasmids drive the evolution of antibiotic resistance?. PI: Heleng Wang
- FunHitDisco: A Platform for Fungicide Drug Development. PIs: Lindon Moodie & Luke Robertson
- Humanities and Social Sciences in One Health: Promoting Just and Responsible Antibiotic Behavior in Society. PI: Mirko Ancillotti
- Individualized antibiotic treatment with the support of time-lapse microscopy, image analysis, machine learning and PKPD modeling. PI. Elisabet Nielsel.
- Mechanisms and clinical effects of antibiotic interactions. PI: Dan I. Andersson.
- Countering the spread of AMR through consumer behavior – Play the AMR card. PI: Anna-Carin Nordvall.
- Network changes and policy to promote value creation for antibiotics. PI: Enrico Baraldi.
- Optimized strategies for introducing new antibiotics into healthcare to increase patient safety and counteract the development of resistance. PI: Thomas Tängdén
- Rapid heteroresistance determination. PI: Maria Tenje