India, Norway to begin collaborative research on antimicrobial resistance
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Ramesh Shankar, Mumbai
January 01 , 2017
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India and Norway will soon begin collaborative research in the area of
antimicrobial resistance. The broad research areas covered under this
collaborative research programme include, surveillance systems for
antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic use in humans and/or animal
population; design, implementation and evaluation of antibiotic
stewardship programmes including intervention studies to promote
infection control and clinical practice guidelines in hospitals, primary
care and veterinary medicine; novel strategies for diagnosis and
treatment of infections caused by multidrug resistance bacteria; and
ecological, evolutionary and molecular properties of antimicrobial
resistance.
The Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) and
the Research Council of Norway (RCN) are the implementing agencies of
this programme. ICMR has invited collaborative research projects in the
field of antimicrobial resistance from the eligible scientists. ICMR
will fund the Indian component of the studies and will collaborate on
this initiative with RCN. Support will be for a maximum of three years. A
similar Call for Proposals has been issued by RCN for Norwegian
investigators under this programme.
Background of this programme
dates back to the year 2014. During the visit of President Pranab
Mukherjee to Norway in October, 2014, an MoU for co-operation between
ICMR and RCN was signed by India Ambassador to Norway Norman Anil Kumar
Browne and Arvid Hallen, Director General of RCN. This cooperation seeks
to establish a health research relationship for encouraging research in
a range of health-related areas of mutual interest, including human
vaccines, infectious diseases and antimicrobial resistance. The
agreement shall promote direct cooperation within the field being
organised through joint calls and funding for research
proposals/projects as well as facilitating exchange of scientists and
scientific information.
All applications will undergo peer
review. The project proposals will be assessed separately according to
the rules of procedure in each country. The result of these procedures
will be the basis for reaching mutual agreement on the ranking of the
projects and a decision on funding. Projects must receive a high
assessment score in both countries to be funded. The 5-6 Indian and
Norwegian selected projects will receive funding from the ICMR and the
RCN respectively. At the time of the review, some applicants may also
need to provide additional information or clarification, if requested by
reviewers.
Applications will be reviewed according to the
criteria such as scientific merit and quality, feasibility of the
proposal, relevance to the scope and intent of the India-Norway
collaborative research programme, strength of proposed collaboration,
impact on developing a new area for collaboration, likelihood that the
proposed project will achieve its proposed goals, benefits of the
project for the users and the research field and benefits for society at
large.
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