The AMR Studio

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 en...

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...

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 backgrou...

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 V...

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 learni...

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 gl...

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...

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,...

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 wi...

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 Wellco...

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...

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...

Welcome to our first anniversary episode! Turning 1 with you by featuring the interview we did with Dr. Claas Kirchhelle, a historian at the University of Oxford. Tune in to get a peek into how historians like him contribute to the study and communication of AMR. Also, we briefly cover the recent publication looking into the progress done on the gobal Antimicrobial Resistance work, after the recom...

Dive in and learn about the roll that ethics and philosophy can have within AMR with Dr. Christian Munthe (currently part of the Centre for Antibiotic Resistance Research -CARe-) in this month's episode of The AMR Studio. With his background in practical philosophy, Dr. Munthe works with translating thoughts into actions when it comes to the various dilemmas that AMR poses regularly. In the news s...

For this September episode we bring you an interview with Dr. Caroline King, an academic with a nursing background working with the humanities and social sciences in hospital settings. Learn about her background and current research topics looking into patients and healthcare professionals facing AMR. In the news sections you'll get an in depth analysis of one of Dr. Kings recent articles analyzin...

Happy August! Join us this month to learn about the career of Fredrik Almqvist, a chemist in AMR with a big passion for education and multidisciplinary research environments. In the news section we bring you a recent article looking into how antibiotic combinations can help treatment of infections presenting heteroresistance; and a thorough review article mapping the current evaluated AMR policy i...

Summer episode right here! This month we bring you a thorough discussion we had with Chantal Morel about the economic situation of the antibiotic and diagnostics markets. Why is it no longer working? Can it be changed? In our news section, we talk about a new perspective on how non-profit organizations can help solve these market issues; and a very cool research article proving that resistance in...

One more month at the AMR Studio, we bring you a heartwarming conversation around AMR experiences and work. This month we feature an interview we did with Gerry Wright, a biochemist turn microbiologist working on drug development,and that personally had to face the reality of AMR. In our news section we bring you the happy story of a cystic fibrosis patient successfully treated using phage therapy...

Welcome to another live episode at The AMR Studio! This time we are coming to you live from ECCMID2019, the annual European Congress of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. We had the pleasure to interview 5 young researchers coming from around the globe (Australia, Norway, Spain, France & the USA) about their current projects and work. Listen to this episode to learn more antibiotic res...

Welcome back to the AMR Studio. This month we bring you an insightful conversation with Dr. Ayako Ebata, from the Institute of Development Studies. She is an agricultural economist that has recently been working across Asia, mostly in Myanmar and India understanding the antibiotic market situation in the agricultural sector. In our news section we talk about the recent report on AMR released to th...

Here we are one month more! In this episode you have the chance to learn about antibiotic persistence and the differences between this and antibiotic resistance with Dr. Sophie Helaine from the Imperial College London. In our news section we talk about a recent report published on the discrepancies of breakpoints between different antibiotic susceptibility systems, and a very good media article ab...

Special extra episode! Coming to you live from Uppsala's SciFest 2019, here you can listen to the interesting discussion we had with Mirko Ancillotti, from the Centre for Research Ethics and Bioethics at Uppsala University. Learn with us about the different perceptions and susceptibilities of the Swedish public regarding antibiotic resistance. Check relevant links and material at www.uac.uu.se/the...

Join us this time to learn about the journey of Professor Steven Hoffman, a lawyer specialized in international law working on AMR. In the news sections we will be talking about heteroresistance, a quite sneaky type of resistance; and about a dialogue paper dwelling on the global AMR financing situation. Check relevant links and material at www.uac.uu.se/the-amr-studio/episode5/. Follow our update...

Welcome to a new episode of The AMR Studio! This time, we have the interview we did with Dr. Coll De Lima Hutchison from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. We chatted with him about his work in anthropology, and got a good insight into the importance of cultural and historical backgrounds when trying to change behaviours. In our news section we bring to you the latest research on...

In this episode, we feature an interview with medical historian Dr. Anne Kveim Lie from the University of Oslo. In her interview and our discussion, you will learn about how looking at the past can help us understand our present better, and how past futures have influenced the history of antibiotics up to today. In our news section, we will be talking about antibiotic stewardship in both human and...