In the last quarter of 2024, 4 new projects were supported:
Novo Nordisk Data Science Emerging Investigator (11 M DKK)
Description: “Bacteria have waged chemical warfare for billions of years. Their metaphorical armory of weapons and shields are antibiotics and antibiotic resistance respectively. As humans have appropriated antibiotics, resistance proliferates globally and now kills 1.3 million people annually.
To slow this silent pandemic we need to both find new weapons and understand which bacteria are shielded from what weapon. Growing public microbiome datasets can help us do that, but there a number of issues. They contain a large layer of metagenomic dark matter we don’t understand and our current analyses are done sample-by-sample and don’t exploit how different datasets synergistically can inform each other.
There are a number of obstacles to solve before we can recover both the useful and harmful microbial armory hidden in global microbiomes. With this project, I seek to develop new computational approaches, make computer programs and harvest the hidden armory for humanity to exploit and slow the AMR pandemic.”
Sundhedsdonationer (2.5 M DKK)
Sundhedsdonationer has chosen to support a multi-year national antimicrobial resistance campaign led by Patrick Munk. Videnskab.dk, MadeClear ApS and Kompass are partners, and together they will create contents across multiple channels and media types for young people, adults and the elderly.
NordForsk AMR Network (800 K NOK)
A new Nordic research consortium NoMoReAMR has been launched with funding from NordForsk. Researchers from Turku & Helsinki (FI), Tromsø & Ås (NO), samt Göteborg (SE) og København/Lyngby (DK) will have a number of workshops and writing camps to create truly interdisciplinary One Health research applications to address the antimicrobial resistance epidemic.
Carlsberg Mindelegat (200 K DKK)
With MadeClear ApS, science influencer Lasse Winther and upcoming researcher Sabine Færge, Patrick will make a number of popular science videos communicating microbiome science to young people and neurodivergent people in particular.
Patrick Munk’s presentation
