Advisory
PACE has assembled advisory committees to provide strategic guidance to the programme and expertise to help select and support projects awarded funding.
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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
Deputy Head of Infection Medicine & Personal Chair of Molecular Diagnostics and Infection, University of Edinburgh
Dr Ken Bradley
Global Head, Infectious Diseases Discovery Immunology, Roche Pharma Research and Early Development
Sue Charles
Independent Consultant, Charles Consultants; Member of the WHO Task Force of AMR Survivors
Nick Crabb
CSO for Science, Evidence and Analytics, AMR Lead, NICE
Helen Dent
CEO, BIVDA
Dr Erin Duffy
Chief of Research & Development, CARB-X
Professor Sir Michael Ferguson
Regius Professor of Life Sciences, University of Dundee
Professor William Hope
Dame Sally Davies Chair of AMR Research, University of Liverpool
Dr Seamus O'Brien
R&D Director, GARDP
Dr Deborah O’Neill
CEO, Novabiotics
Dr Maneesh Paul
CEO, Microvioma
Dr Alexander Pym
Director of Infectious Disease, Wellcome
Florence Sejourne
CEO, Aurobac
Dr Mary de Silva
Deputy Chief Scientific Advisor, DHSC
Scientific Projects Advisory Group (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)
Independent Consultant, Chemical Biology Ventures Ltd; CSO, Persica
Dr Nel Moore (Deputy Chair)
Independent Consultant, FW East Consulting
Professor Stephen Baker
Professor and Director of Research Global Health, University of Cambridge
Dr Benjamin Blasco
Senior Discovery Manager, GARDP
Dr Patricia Bradford
Independent Consultant, Antimicrobial Development Specialists
Professor Karen Bush
Professor of Practice Emerita, Indiana University Bloomington
Dr Jason Clark
CSO, NexaBiome
Professor Martha Clokie
Professor of Microbiology, University of Leicester
Dr Aleksandar Danilovski
Independent Consultant; DALISCO d.o.o.
Dr Alice Erwin
Independent Consultant, Erwin Consulting LLC
Professor Ian Gilbert
Professor of Drug Discovery, Drug Discovery Unit, University of Dundee
Dr Hideki Maki
Principal Investigator, Shionogi
Dr Ralph Minter
Senior VP of Research, Alchemab Therapeutics Ltd
Dr Claire Sadler
Independent Consultant, Sadler Scientific; Senior Toxicologist, Apconix
Dr Bala Subramanian
CSO, Bugworks
Dr Peter Warn
Independent Consultant, Magic Bullet Consulting
Dr Richard Vickers
Independent Consultant, Slade Consulting
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.