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World Antimicrobial (AMR) Awareness Week (18-24 November) is a global campaign led by the World Health Organization (WHO) to raise awareness of AMR and reduce the spread of drug-resistant infections. Lygature proudly supports this goal.

Registration is now open for the festive third edition of Lygature LIVE, which will take place on 19 March 2025 (15:00-20:00 including dinner), at Villa Jongerius in Utrecht.

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September was a busy month for Lygature's GNA NOW Consortium, as partners gathered in Porto, Portugal, for the Annual Consortium Meeting.

International consortium launches its activities to improve the approach to theranostics-based advanced stage cancer treatment while increasing the overall availability of radioisotopes.

Recently, Lygature was asked by EFPIA to perform an impact assessment of current clinical data disclosure activities on public health. Following up on that request, our colleagues Pieter Stolk and Sophie Huiskes-Berends produced a report titled:  ‘A landscape analysis for responsible transparency and clinical data disclosure for interventional studies in Europe and beyond’.

For the second time in one year, Lygature colleagues were back in Annecy, France over the summer. This time, for the kick-off of a new initiative in the tuberculosis (TB) research space called KITT. 

On 4 September, Lygature Senior Program Manager Jan-Willem Boiten participated in an Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) Masterclass that introduced participants to practical tools and tips for sharing data in collaborative health projects.

The threat of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a significant global health risk. In the lead-up to the United Nations (UN) High-Level Meeting on AMR later this week, a coalition of nine European initiatives, including the GNA NOW Consortium, is calling for sustained investment in antibiotic research and development.

The Innovative Health Initiative (IHI) has released a new Data Sharing Playbook – an important new resource aimed at improving data-sharing practices within multi-stakeholder projects such as those under the IMI/IHI framework. Developed with contributions from Lygature, the Playbook addresses the complexities of data sharing that often hinder collaborative progress.

The European Platform for Neurodegenerative Diseases (EPND) announces the opening of the call for expressions of interest. Applications are welcomed from investigators in academia or industry, with a proven track record in the neurodegenerative disease field. 

UNITE4TB, one of Lygature’s flagship projects, has successfully completed participant recruitment for its DECISION trial, marking an important milestone for the project and the fight against drug-sensitive tuberculosis (TB). 

Catch up on the latest news from Lygature in the latest edition of our Quarterly Newsletter. 

Lygature's GNA NOW Consortium, in collaboration with CARB-X, is gearing up to host an Expert Meeting focused on developing a Target Product Profile (TPP) for antibiotics to treat severe enteric infections in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). 

The Lygature-coordinated MOMENTUM project, a cross-Atlantic collaboration aimed at advancing MR-guided radiation therapy for common types of cancer, has achieved significant new milestones. Since its launch in 2019, MOMENTUM has grown from 10 to 21 partners and has now registered over 5,000 patients.