An Open Innovation model to support research on antimicrobial resistance and difficult to treat infections

Description of impact

Case summary
Through an Open Innovation Model to support research on antimicrobial resistance
(AMR) and difficult to treat infections, UKHSA offers its expertise and facilities to
researchers in order to work openly and collaboratively towards the goal of reducing
the infectious disease burden on public health. The Open Innovation in AMR model,
developed at UKHSA, supports innovation to discover and develop new
therapeutics, diagnostics and other types of intervention aimed at improving the
prevention and treatment of drug resistant infections. The work, supported by an
infrastructure grant from the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), has
enabled more than 60 collaborative studies over the last seven years and continues
to work with a number of partners in academia and industry, nationally and
internationally

Category of impact	Health impacts, Social impacts