Some of these infections can no longer be effectively treated, which increases the risk of dying. The One-Health theme supports research into the prevention and cure of infectious disease as well as zoonoses, antimicrobial resistance, vaccination, diet and health.
On this website you can find more information on ZonMw subsidy programmes and projects on infectious diseaseas and antimicrobial resistance, and current topics.
Thanks to the development of a new malaria rapid test, sick children with fever in Africa receive the correct diagnosis and the correct medication. In doing so, we help to stop antimicrobial resistance.
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Read about the ZonMw programmes on antimicrobial resistance.
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Together with our sponsors and clients, we are looking into possibilities for financing research into the coronavirus and COVID-19. The pandemic is having a major impact on healthcare and society.
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How is research helping to prevent HIV and AIDS? View ongoing and completed projects.
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Which research does ZonMw facilitate in the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of TB? View our research projects.
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Since April 2019 we participate in GloPID-R, Global Research Collaboration for Infectious Disease Preparedness. We're partner of the Joint Programming Initiative on Antimicrobial Resistance (JPIAMR), who also collaborates with GloPID-R.
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One of the focus areas of Wageningen University & Research is Global One Health with themes that cover a broad spectrum of health and diseases in a societal context: infectious diseases, environment, climate, society and food.
Read more about One Health at the WUR website
Additional information about the call ‘Tackling antibiotic resistance by reusing data and increasing FAIRness’ can be found here, including powerpoint presentations
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Subscribe hereThe call for grant applications ‘Action research on dementia care in the Dutch Caribbean’ has been opened at the ZonMw website. The deadline for submission is 21 september 2021, at 14.00
How can we encourage the acceptance and implementation of existing animal-free models? This is the key question in the new call published by the Dutch Research Agenda (NWA). Almost 2.9 million euros is being made available in this call for research by broad consortia of researchers and civil society partners. ZonMw is realising this Call for proposals in collaboration with NWO.
The Dutch Research Council has awarded 78 experienced researchers a Vidi grant worth 800,000 euros. 15 of these fall under the ZonMw field of activity. The grant enables them to develop their own innovative line of research and set up their own research group in the coming five years.
The InSight (InZicht) programme will be continued in 2021. This means a new impetus for research for persons with visual disabilities.
Health care efficiency research & Rational Pharmacotherapy
3 June 2021
9 September 2021,
14.00
Memorabel
28 July 2021
21 September 2021,
14.00
Safety assessment via animal-free models
22 July 2021
17 February 2022,
14.00
ZonMw has several programmes related to this topic.
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