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As the Longitude Prize on Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) shows, it pays to reward ideas

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Report: Implementing rapid diagnostic tests for UTIs in the UK healthcare system

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Press Release: From 3 days to 45 minutes: rapid test for UTI wins £8m Longitude Prize on AMR to transform fight against superbugs

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Winner of the £8m Longitude Prize on AMR

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The burden of UTIs

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The global problem of AMR

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Origins of the Longitude Prize on AMR

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Expanding medical diagnostics for low-and-middle income countries: GADx, UK

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Amplifying samples to boost sensitivity of UTI tests: BioAmp, USA

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Identifying UTI pathogens to target antibiotic treatment: Llusern Scientific, UK

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A rapid UTI test the size of a credit card: Module Innovations, India

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Identifying UTIs in minutes, not days: Sysmex Astrego AB, Sweden

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Sepsis Awareness Month: Q&A with Dr Ben Morton

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Sepsis – The innovation gap

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Introducing The Longitude Prize on Dementia; the second instalment of the modern Longitude Prize

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60-minute diagnostic tests tackling antibiotic resistance to be eligible for £8m Longitude Prize

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Watch AMR& Diagnostic Frontiers Event with CARB-X and FIND

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India’s growing biotech ecosystem in the fight against antimicrobial resistance

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A Technical Read: Improved UTI Diagnostics: AST without Identification – Ready for “Primetime”?

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AMR& Diagnostic Frontiers: Virtual Event on 3 March (with CARB-X & FIND)

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Ensuring access to tackle the growing global threat of antimicrobial resistance

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Meet the Judges: Prof Hassan Sefrioui, Director and Member of the Executive Board at Moroccan Foundation for Advanced Science, Innovation and Research

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Meet the Judges: Dr Direk Limmathurotsakul, Head of Microbiology at Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit

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Meet the Judges: Dr Tom Boyles, Specialist in Infectious Diseases and HIV Medicine

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An Intro to the NICE Diagnostics Assessment Programme from Becky Albrow: what did we learn?

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Q&A with Jeff Featherstone, Head of AMR at the NHS

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The future of AMR diagnostics

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Tackling AMR: A high-level interactive dialogue

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One year of Covid: Are we ready for the next pandemic?

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The Brexit learning curve: 4 regulatory implications for Longitude Prize teams

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How Covid-19 has set back cancer care

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Watch Sprint Workshop 2: How to attract investment to fund product development and scale your company

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Lurching from one pandemic to another? From the frontlines of antibiotic resistance during Covid-19

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Stories from the frontlines of antimicrobial resistance during Covid-19

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The Long Read: Q&A with David Gill, MedTech Investment Expert

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Sprint Workshop 2: How to attract investment

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AMR diagnostic innovators supported with new investment workshop from Longitude Prize

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Longitude Prize Director: Redefine the market makers to transform broken antibiotic and diagnostic market

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What we learned about navigating global MedTech Regulation pathways

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Sprint Workshop 1: Navigating MedTech regulation pathways in developed and emerging markets

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Q&A with Robyn Meurant, IVD Regulations Expert, NSF International

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AMR diagnostic innovators get boost with launch of new Sprint programme

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UK tests ‘Netflix Subscription Model’ for new antibiotic drugs

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CARB-X awards $3.2m to Longitude Prize contender, Module Innovations

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The Long Read: We must do better for UTI patients

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Can we target antibiotics better for urine infections?

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Education: future proofing antibiotic use

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COVID-19 Testing Resources

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Antibiotic Pioneers: Elizabeth Lee Hazen & Rachel Fuller Brown

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Antibiotic Pioneers: Paul Ehrlich

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Antibiotic Pioneers: George Hitchings and Gertrude Elion

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Antibiotic Pioneers: Howard Florey & Ernst Chain

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Antibiotic Pioneers: Alexander Fleming

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Antibiotic Pioneers: Gerhard Domagk

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Event: Developing POC diagnostics for UTIs: addressing clinical need in the UK

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Superbugs put future viability of cancer treatment into question, new study

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Why are doctors worried about antibiotic resistance in India?

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Antibiotic use falling but resistant infections rising: what are clinicians to do?

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Webinar: Innovation in POC diagnostics for sepsis and bloodstream infections

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Catalysing innovation and a feasible market mechanism for AMR through a new multi-stakeholder investment fund

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Review of Progress on Antimicrobial Resistance

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Tackling antibiotic resistance in agriculture

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World Sepsis Day: We need a rapid test in the hands of doctors and nurses to reduce mortality

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Our innovators are taking the AMR fight to the front line

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Event: Introduction of new rapid tests essential to reducing unnecessary antibiotic use

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Event: Longitude Prize AMR Diagnostic Roundtable Seminar

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Podcast: Could an Indian team win the Longitude Prize?

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New competition champions antibiotic stewardship in low-resource settings

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Live webinar for Canadian test developers

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Q&A: Drug-resistant MRSA survivor describes advocacy journey

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Q&A: BioAmp Diagnostics partners with Illumina Accelerator to validate UTI test

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Linking test developers to clinicians in the USA

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Adequate isn’t acceptable anymore with antibiotic resistance looming

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Video: India-based teams first to receive Boost Grants

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The New Normal: Life with HAI

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Indian start-ups focus on diagnostic tests to reduce antibiotic resistance

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Death by delusion

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Big news: We are extending the Longitude Prize

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Crafting the uncraftable: Designing “diagnostics”

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Q&A: Diagnostic advice for low-resource settings

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Sting: A story from Infectious Futures

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Sex, Drugs and Superbugs: Gonorrhoea and the post-antibiotic apocalypse

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Tips from Vietnam: Designing technology to reduce antibiotic use and resistance

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Causes: A story from Infectious Futures

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Antimicrobial resistance in Taiwan: What lessons can we learn?

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Podcast: Travelling antibiotic resistance car hits the Netherlands

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New funding platform launched to help Longitude Prize teams

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Podcast: An affordable blood test that detects antibiotic resistance

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NIH-BARDA funding opportunity for rapid diagnostics

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A film on antibiotic resistance in India

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On the frontline of antibiotic resistance in South Sudan

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Challenge contest to spur antibiotic stewardship among medical students

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Have we truly considered the barriers to point-of-care testing?

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Collaboration funding for UK researchers to go to India

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Our team’s journey with the Longitude Prize

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They want to live too: A story from Infectious Futures

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Transmission: A story from Infectious Futures

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Everyone needs to be an antibiotic resistance fighter

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When the drugs don’t work, could bacteriophages?

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Podcast: When the microbes fight back

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Congratulations Discovery Award Winners: Round 3!

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Ayanda: A story from Infectious Futures

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Mythbusters: What do you know about antibiotic resistance?

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Antibiotic resistance across Europe: E. coli, MRSA and Klebsiella

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The human element of living with superbugs

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Fighting for our lives at the Science Museum

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Diagnostic tests can help ‘Keep Antibiotics Working’

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Global Handwashing Day: Hand hygiene in resource-poor maternity settings

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How surviving septic shock changes your life

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Bacterial or viral: To treat or not to treat with antibiotics

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How antibiotic resistance is affecting newborn babies in India

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Congratulations Discovery Award Winners: Round 2!

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Lord O’Neill highlights importance of rapid diagnosis for tackling drug resistance

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Congratulations to the Longitude Explorer Prize 2017 finalists

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Longitude Prize: what do we mean by point-of-care?

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Meningitis Day 2015 – diagnosing better outcomes

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Are we on the verge of a point-of-care revolution?

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“Bacteria do not respect borders” – notes from the SDRI 2017 conference

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Could infection prevention stop drug resistance in its tracks?

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Kenya’s press takes on antimicrobial resistance

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Edinburgh’s international diagnostics challenge

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CATCH, the award-winning short film about antibiotic resistance

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Animals for antibiotic research: Is it necessary?

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Africa CDC Launch: Delivering the African public health agenda

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Living Labs: Helping health innovation work in the real world

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Longitude Prize launches new seed funding to drive innovation in rapid tests to help reduce AMR

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It’s in the genes AKA Genetic determinants of AMR and where to find them

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Longitude Explorer: The Internet of Things for good health

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2016, what a year

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A reading of Infectious Futures

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The antimicrobial crisis in Latin America

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HIV and diagnostic tests: Aiming for undetectable status

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Congratulations Discovery Award Winners: Round 1!

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Data visualisation: Antibiotics vs. bacteria across Europe

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Is sugar the sweet solution to rapid diagnosis of bacterial infections?

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Do delayed prescriptions help reduce antibiotic use?

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Discovery Awards: Initial Results

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Introducing our new Prize Lead, Daniel Berman

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Innovations in hand hygiene

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Biology Week 2016

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Crowdsourcing ideas in science

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A milestone moment in global health: Drug resistance at the UN

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Chris Bond: From bacterial infection to gold medal

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Games For Better: A game jam on antibiotic resistance

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The NIH launches a $20million prize to tackle antibiotic resistance

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John and Joan Harrisons of today

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Biohacking: Lab science for everyone

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e-Bug: educating children and young people on hygiene, infection and antibiotics

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Game on at the museum

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Fourth submission results: Everything left to play for

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AMR: Behind the headlines

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How does AMR affect TB, HIV and gonorrhoea?

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EU Barometer: 57% of Europeans unaware that antibiotics are ineffective against viruses

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Looking for collaborator: Bearded Monster

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How the Longitude Prize can help realise the goals of the AMR Review

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Dame Sally Davies’ speech at the Discovery Awards Launch

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Final report from AMR Review

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The Discovery Awards: Seed funding to enter the Prize

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6th International Meeting on Emerging Diseases and Surveillance

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Geneva Health Forum 2016: Creating sustainable innovation

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Horizon 2020: Prize for better use of antibiotics

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International Women’s Day 2016: STEM fields

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Government of India and WHO host meeting of government, industry and public sector to tackle AMR

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New funding announcement and third round of submissions now under review

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The global threat neglected by the Sustainable Development Goals

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Creating incentives for people-powered health

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Global pharma industry calls for collective action on antimicrobial resistance

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mariPOC®: First team from Finland to submit an entry to prize

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Longitude Prize goes to Tokyo

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Announcing the results of our last submissions as we celebrate our first anniversary

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The fight against antimicrobial resistance across Europe

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The antibiotics in our food

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Bring on the era of post-modern antibiotics

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Announcing new Advisors

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The gonorrhoea urgency

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Latest Jim O’Neill report calls for new rapid diagnostics to stop unnecessary use of antibiotics

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What does the post-antibiotic era actually mean?

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Handwashing: A top defence against illness and drug resistance

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Longitude Prize goes to Harvard Business School

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Antibiotic resistance in China: Launching the prize in Asia

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Less than a month to go before the next submission deadline

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On challenging tradition to treat infection

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Better diagnostics as part of multidisciplinary approach to antimicrobial resistance

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Infectious Futures: Science fiction imagines science fact

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Global engagement – Teams from all continents working on Longitude Prize ideas

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Infectious Futures – Stories of the post-antibiotic apocalypse

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CO-ADD – Global search for next antibiotic

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First Longitude Prize submissions received to tackle antibiotic resistance by Tamar Ghosh, Longitude Prize

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Longitude Prize – technologies that rise to the challenge of resistance, by Roger Highfield

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Announcing Ramanan Laxminarayan as the newest adviser to join the Longitude Prize

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Introducing our partnership with Antibiotic Action

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Longitude Event – Highlights of ‘What makes a Winner?’

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Longitude Prize comes to Northern Ireland 28 May 2015 – sign up now!

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AMR Cross-Council Initiative: New funding call

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First assessment window closing in two weeks

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Gather Your Allies, Engage in Unorthodox Thinking – 300 Year Old Lessons in Innovation

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How are diagnostics making a difference to healthcare?

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Longitude Prize: What makes a winner? Event at the London Science Museum

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Horizon 2020: €1m Prize for antibiotic resistance

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Can Scotland win the Longitude Prize?

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Antibiotics and cancer: a personal story for World Cancer Day 2015

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Art and Science: How collaboration could lead to a winner for Longitude Prize

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Watch: How do bacteria resist antibiotics?

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Antibiotic Resistance: why the fuss and what simple actions can everyone take?

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Insuring the world against antibiotic resistance

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Longitude Prize featured in New Dehli Newspaper

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New ways to tackle antibiotic resistance – Bacteriophage therapies

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Enter the Longitude Prize

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Answering questions about antibiotics for the fast and the curious

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Longitude Prize and Chennai Declaration: Partners in the war against bacteria

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Global Handwashing Day 2014

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Longitude Prize: A Thank you

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Baron Peter Piot joins the Longitude Committee

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An Overview of Antibiotics

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Appropriate antibiotic prescribing in general practice

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The British Science Festival 2014

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10 most dangerous antibiotic-resistant bacteria

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In the balance: GPs, patient care and antibiotics

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Changing our ways: protecting our antibiotic future

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Help to shape the Longitude Prize challenge

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The antibiotics challenge: why it matters

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How long will it take to solve the #longitudeprize challenge?

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And the winner is… Antibiotics

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Vote #Water

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Vote #Flight

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Vote #Antibiotics

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Vote #Paralysis

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Vote #Food

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Vote #Dementia

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