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Advisory

PACE has assembled advisory committees to provide strategic guidance to the programme and expertise to help select and support projects awarded funding.

Strategic Advisory Committee (SAC)

The SAC provides input and advocacy for the programme. Members are cross-sector experts in AMR. The committee provides advice and guidance to the JSB and JPMB on the strategic direction of the programme. Our SAC are not involved in the peer-review of applications for funding and do not provide recommendations on which research projects we should fund.

Professor Till Bachmann
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Professor Till Bachmann

Deputy Head of Infection Medicine & Personal Chair of Molecular Diagnostics and Infection, University of Edinburgh

Dr Ken Bradley
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Dr Ken Bradley

Global Head, Infectious Diseases Discovery Immunology, Roche Pharma Research and Early Development

Sue Charles
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Sue Charles

Independent Consultant, Charles Consultants; Member of the WHO Task Force of AMR Survivors

Nick Crabb
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Nick Crabb

CSO for Science, Evidence and Analytics, AMR Lead, NICE

Helen Dent
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Helen Dent

CEO, BIVDA

Dr Erin Duffy
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Dr Erin Duffy

Chief of Research & Development, CARB-X

Professor Sir Michael Ferguson
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Professor Sir Michael Ferguson

Regius Professor of Life Sciences, University of Dundee

Professor William Hope
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Professor William Hope

Dame Sally Davies Chair of AMR Research, University of Liverpool

Dr Seamus O'Brien
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Dr Seamus O'Brien

R&D Director, GARDP

Dr Lesley Ogilvie
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Dr Lesley Ogilvie

Secretariat Director, Global AMR R&D Hub

Dr Deborah O’Neill
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Dr Deborah O’Neill

CEO, Novabiotics

Dr Maneesh Paul
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Dr Maneesh Paul

CEO, Microvioma

Dr Alexander Pym
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Dr Alexander Pym

Director of Infectious Disease, Wellcome

Florence Sejourne
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Florence Sejourne

CEO, Aurobac

Professor Mary de Silva
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Professor Mary de Silva

Deputy Chief Scientific Advisor, DHSC

Kirsteen Wills
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Kirsteen Wills

CEO, AMR Action UK

Scientific Projects Advisory Groups (SPAG)

SPAG members are experts in AMR research and development. They provide scientific review and assessment of research proposals as part of our funding call process and ongoing portfolio monitoring. They provide recommendations and advice to the JPMB. If necessary, more than one SPAG will be convened during the programme to complement the funding round at the time (e.g. therapeutics and diagnostics).

Antibacterial Therapeutics SPAG

Dr Lloyd Czaplewski (Chair)
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Dr Lloyd Czaplewski (Chair)

Independent Consultant, Chemical Biology Ventures Ltd; CSO, Persica

Dr Nel Moore (Deputy Chair)
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Dr Nel Moore (Deputy Chair)

Independent Consultant, FW East Consulting

Professor Stephen Baker
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Professor Stephen Baker

Professor and Director of Research Global Health, University of Cambridge

Dr Benjamin Blasco
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Dr Benjamin Blasco

Senior Discovery Manager, GARDP

Dr Patricia Bradford
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Dr Patricia Bradford

Independent Consultant, Antimicrobial Development Specialists

Professor Karen Bush
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Professor Karen Bush

Professor of Practice Emerita, Indiana University Bloomington

Dr Jason Clark
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Dr Jason Clark

CSO, NexaBiome

Professor Martha Clokie
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Professor Martha Clokie

Professor of Microbiology, University of Leicester

Dr Aleksandar Danilovski
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Dr Aleksandar Danilovski

Independent Consultant; DALISCO d.o.o.

Dr Alice Erwin
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Dr Alice Erwin

Independent Consultant, Erwin Consulting LLC

Professor Ian Gilbert
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Professor Ian Gilbert

Professor of Drug Discovery, Drug Discovery Unit, University of Dundee

Dr Hideki Maki
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Dr Hideki Maki

Principal Investigator, Shionogi

Dr Ralph Minter
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Dr Ralph Minter

Senior VP of Research, Alchemab Therapeutics Ltd

Dr Claire Sadler
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Dr Claire Sadler

Independent Consultant, Sadler Scientific; Senior Toxicologist, Apconix

Dr Bala Subramanian
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Dr Bala Subramanian

CSO, Bugworks

Dr Peter Warn
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Dr Peter Warn

Independent Consultant, Magic Bullet Consulting

Antibacterial Diagnostics SPAG

Philip Jordan (Chair)
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Philip Jordan (Chair)

Principal - Licensing and Ventures Manager, Oxford University Innovation Limited, UK

Sabine Dittrich (Deputy)
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Sabine Dittrich (Deputy)

Professor for Global Public Health, Deggendorf Institute of Technology, Germany

Joy Allen
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Joy Allen

Head of Market Access and Public Affairs, Roche Diagnostics UK and Ireland

Akhil Bansal
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Akhil Bansal

Policy Fellow, Centre for Global Development, UK; Medical Doctor, Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Jane Cunningham
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Jane Cunningham

Consultant in Infectious Diseases and Microbiology, University Hospitals Dorset NHS Foundation Trust, UK

Jayne Ellis
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Jayne Ellis

Associate Professor in Clinical Microbiology, University of Leeds, UK; Clinical Scientist, Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, UK

Nina Garrett
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Nina Garrett

Chief Technical Officer, Abingdon Health, UK

Namita Jaggi
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Namita Jaggi

Chairperson, Labs and Infection Control, Artemis Hospitals, India; Medical Doctor, India

Karen Jordan-Coffey
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Karen Jordan-Coffey

Clinical Marketing Director, bioMérieux UK Ltd, UK

Gorm Lisby
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Gorm Lisby

Chief Consultant, Hvidovre Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark

Colleen Loynachan
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Colleen Loynachan

Senior Technical Advisor, International Pandemic Preparedness Secretariat, UK

Jonathan Perkins
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Jonathan Perkins

Independent Consultant and Scientific Advisor, UK

Giles Sanders
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Giles Sanders

Head of Diagnostics, The Technology Partnership (TTP), UK

John Tyson
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John Tyson

Head of North-East Innovation Lab, Newcastle Hospitals, UK

Betsy Wonderly-Trainor
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Betsy Wonderly-Trainor

Alliance Director, CARB-X, US

Extended Advisory Network

Together with SPAG members, these scientific advisors are part of PACE’s broader expert network. They support our portfolio projects in a range of ways, including participation in scientific advisory boards and the provision of specialist input to help advance projects.

Professor Jo Fothergill
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Professor Jo Fothergill

Professor in Medical Microbiology, University of Liverpool

Professor Colin Hill
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Professor Colin Hill

Professor of Microbiology, University College Cork

Dr Zoltán Magyarics
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Dr Zoltán Magyarics

Vice-President, Research and Development, AOP Health

Dr Margarida Saraiva
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Dr Margarida Saraiva

Group leader at i3S-Porto, Portugal

AMR Community Representatives Committee (ACRC)

The voices of people with lived experience of AMR are integral to PACE. The ACRC reviews proposals from a patient and public perspective, providing insight, input and feedback to applications submitted as part of our funding calls and as part of ongoing portfolio delivery. In this way we are promoting a more person-centred approach to PACE funded research, resulting in better outcomes for all. 

We partnered with Vocal, a non-profit patient and public involvement and engagement organisation that specialises in connecting people to health research, to assemble the ACRC. Vocal hosts a network of people affected by AMR, as either patients or carers, and to date 13 members of this AMR community are involved in the ACRC. Learn more about Vocal and the AMR network.

 

 

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