Working towards global ecological balance with bacteria. Married to Marya 38 years and counting. Professor at Boston University. All skeets my own.https://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.social/post/3mjc4ejgtgc2xThis is good news for 2040, and only if we adequately support antibiotic R&D. This is early research.. Given a lot of time, excellent science, millions of dollars, and some luck, this might be tested in animals and then people. Otherwise, good work like this may never reach patients. [contains quote post or other embedded content]12 Apr 2026 10:10 +0000at://did:plc:b5zigqv3prosykrwehm3e375/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjc4ejgtgc2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.social/post/3mivp3dxnxs2yLord Darzi doing an exceptional job communicating innovation in #AMR07 Apr 2026 11:41 +0000at://did:plc:b5zigqv3prosykrwehm3e375/app.bsky.feed.post/3mivp3dxnxs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.social/post/3mivktd5slc2yDr Stephanie Rist, French Minister of Health - describing the economic challenges when antibiotics are thoughtfully protected07 Apr 2026 10:25 +0000at://did:plc:b5zigqv3prosykrwehm3e375/app.bsky.feed.post/3mivktd5slc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.social/post/3mivfq7q4ak2uText supporting the One Health model for AMR & humanities and social sciences - #AMR Interesting for the upcoming 5th INAMRSS Research Conference in Munich in coordination with ESMID Global [contains quote post or other embedded content]07 Apr 2026 08:53 +0000at://did:plc:b5zigqv3prosykrwehm3e375/app.bsky.feed.post/3mivfq7q4ak2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.social/post/3mivetjwl2c2uExcellent One Health model diagram, including AMR and social sciences #AMR07 Apr 2026 08:37 +0000at://did:plc:b5zigqv3prosykrwehm3e375/app.bsky.feed.post/3mivetjwl2c2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.social/post/3m4bo7bbd2c2nThe UN will soon unveil a new global science panel on #AMR - what can we do to make it effective and efficient? See the great papers from our conference in Lagos earlier this year: https://www.cgdev.org/project/building-amr-independent-panel-lessons-and-insights28 Oct 2025 19:29 +0000at://did:plc:b5zigqv3prosykrwehm3e375/app.bsky.feed.post/3m4bo7bbd2c2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.social/post/3m37vzjp2fs23Are you a researcher working in infectious diseases or #AMR, from a social science discipline (broadly interpreted?). INAMRSS has 3 great opportunities for you! https://www.globalstrategylab.org/events/open-call-for-social-science-presentations-on-infectious-diseases/ Abstract submission open now - move fast!15 Oct 2025 09:19 +0000at://did:plc:b5zigqv3prosykrwehm3e375/app.bsky.feed.post/3m37vzjp2fs23https://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.social/post/3m2oy3vqsv22cIssac Weldon from Univ Copenhagen describing what #AMR can learn from environmental governance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f4OSQsPKNNA based on our recent article w Kathleen Liddell (Univ Cambridge) in Milbank: pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40876865/08 Oct 2025 15:41 +0000at://did:plc:b5zigqv3prosykrwehm3e375/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2oy3vqsv22chttps://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.social/post/3m2jxdsvde22oThe world needs better science to fight drug-resistant infections. #amr https://www.cgdev.org/blog/amr-panel-playbook-eight-lessons-building-independent-panel-antimicrobial-resistance06 Oct 2025 15:44 +0000at://did:plc:b5zigqv3prosykrwehm3e375/app.bsky.feed.post/3m2jxdsvde22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.social/post/3lyifj7vhec2oHow should the new Independent Panel on Evidence for Action on #AMR be set up? We gathered scientists and stakeholders - mainly from Africa - to think this through in Lagos, Nigeria. Pre-print now available: https://verixiv.org/articles/2-280/v110 Sep 2025 14:02 +0000at://did:plc:b5zigqv3prosykrwehm3e375/app.bsky.feed.post/3lyifj7vhec2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.social/post/3lydt6dyuik2cWho should pay for #AMR innovation? https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2589537025004183 @akesselheim.bsky.social08 Sep 2025 18:23 +0000at://did:plc:b5zigqv3prosykrwehm3e375/app.bsky.feed.post/3lydt6dyuik2chttps://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.social/post/3lhwolitrac2dNew funding opportunity opened today for Gram-negative antibacterial discovery (as late as LO) in therapeutics! https://gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/innovations-gram-negative-antibiotic-discovery11 Feb 2025 22:13 +0000at://did:plc:b5zigqv3prosykrwehm3e375/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhwolitrac2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.social/post/3lhrdqynxa22pWelcome [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Feb 2025 19:16 +0000at://did:plc:b5zigqv3prosykrwehm3e375/app.bsky.feed.post/3lhrdqynxa22phttps://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.social/post/3lgial2wfqc2tThis law student note presumes that important zoonotic jumps from animals to humans occur in the USA, leading to a recommendation to more tightly regulate live animal importation. For most salient examples, such as COVID and HIV/AIDS, zoonotic transmission was outside the USA. [contains quote post or other embedded content]24 Jan 2025 11:00 +0000at://did:plc:b5zigqv3prosykrwehm3e375/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgial2wfqc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.social/post/3lgdovvwnxs2mWhich lessons can be learned from prior international science panels? How can this help the new Independent Panel on Evidence for Action on AMR? https://www.cgdev.org/blog/charting-path-tackle-amr-how-create-inclusive-and-impactful-independent-panel22 Jan 2025 15:33 +0000at://did:plc:b5zigqv3prosykrwehm3e375/app.bsky.feed.post/3lgdovvwnxs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.social/post/3lfu7ryocbk2l@chddd.bsky.social Univ Vienna, spoke today at the British Academy on his research on the antibiotic pipeline, proposes a new triad of how we could think about success.16 Jan 2025 11:53 +0000at://did:plc:b5zigqv3prosykrwehm3e375/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfu7ryocbk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.social/post/3lfu2lbteds2l@chddd.bsky.social Univ Vienna, spoke today at the British Academy on his research on the antibiotic pipeline, proposes a new triad of how we could think about success.16 Jan 2025 10:19 +0000at://did:plc:b5zigqv3prosykrwehm3e375/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfu2lbteds2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.social/post/3lfrxoeyz6s2vDr Sonia Lewycka on equity discourse in AMR. Most AMR deaths are in lower income settings, so solutions must center equity. (Un)intended Consequences conf @ British Academy.15 Jan 2025 14:22 +0000at://did:plc:b5zigqv3prosykrwehm3e375/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfrxoeyz6s2vhttps://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.social/post/3lfcxtk3hrs2fNice way to transform Reviewer 2 comments into a paper! [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Jan 2025 15:15 +0000at://did:plc:b5zigqv3prosykrwehm3e375/app.bsky.feed.post/3lfcxtk3hrs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.social/post/3ldotxkicms2nI also have concerns about the equities of this system [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Dec 2024 21:47 +0000at://did:plc:b5zigqv3prosykrwehm3e375/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldotxkicms2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.social/post/3ldo5e3s6z22dAcademic Twitter found a new home. More Bluetorials, please. Any regrets from how the tenure system operates? [contains quote post or other embedded content]19 Dec 2024 15:03 +0000at://did:plc:b5zigqv3prosykrwehm3e375/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldo5e3s6z22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.social/post/3ldivceuu3c2jDo we have an AMR group? [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Dec 2024 12:55 +0000at://did:plc:b5zigqv3prosykrwehm3e375/app.bsky.feed.post/3ldivceuu3c2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.social/post/3lcuyajepe227Access to essential medicines is not improving over the past 4 decades with existing tools. "The gap between richer (high- and upper-middle-income) and poorer (lower-middle- and low-income) countries remained largely unchanged over time." https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/epdf/10.1377/hlthaff.2024.0008909 Dec 2024 14:55 +0000at://did:plc:b5zigqv3prosykrwehm3e375/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcuyajepe227https://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.social/post/3lcuwmyqdas2zMost cervical cancer deaths are in lower-income settings worldwide; rollout of the vaccines there has been painfully slower than high-income countries. Bring this good thing to more people. [contains quote post or other embedded content]09 Dec 2024 14:26 +0000at://did:plc:b5zigqv3prosykrwehm3e375/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcuwmyqdas2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.social/post/3lcuwhex4pk2z15 years data on infections from the US VA: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(24)00416-X/fulltext My 3 takeaways: (1) Infection prevention and control works; (2) We still need better antibiotics; and (3) the choice of the denominator in such studies should be carefully made https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(24)00485-7/fulltext09 Dec 2024 14:23 +0000at://did:plc:b5zigqv3prosykrwehm3e375/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcuwhex4pk2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.social/post/3lcqsorvfcc2jBacteria adapt to take advantage of human weaknesses and situations, including war. We should not be surprised that the bacteria rule the battlefield. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/26/magazine/antibiotic-resistance-disease-war.html07 Dec 2024 23:05 +0000at://did:plc:b5zigqv3prosykrwehm3e375/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcqsorvfcc2jhttps://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.social/post/3lcksvuc5js2fResearch is of limited use unless communicated - thanks for this 1 pager [contains quote post or other embedded content]05 Dec 2024 13:53 +0000at://did:plc:b5zigqv3prosykrwehm3e375/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcksvuc5js2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.social/post/3lcgvgiuvjk25Analysis like this systematic review from 5 years ago is needed to move AMR policy forward in the era of an Independent Panel on Evidence For Action on AMR. #IPEA-AMR Here, a careful critique of methodology choices in studies reporting the economic costs of AMR. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s13756-019-0472-z?fromPaywallRec=true04 Dec 2024 00:27 +0000at://did:plc:b5zigqv3prosykrwehm3e375/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcgvgiuvjk25https://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.social/post/3lcbfenn5ig2oWhen azithromycin is overused in high-income countries, no one tries to stop life-saving treatments. 1/2 https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMc241266101 Dec 2024 19:56 +0000at://did:plc:b5zigqv3prosykrwehm3e375/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcbfenn5ig2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/koutterson.bsky.social/post/3lcbeucr2q62oIn 3 large hospitals in Chile, a retrospective analysis of patients with blood stream infections found around a third of patients received inappropriate empiric antibacterial therapy, with higher in-hospital mortality and costs. https://bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/2/2/e00128901 Dec 2024 19:47 +0000at://did:plc:b5zigqv3prosykrwehm3e375/app.bsky.feed.post/3lcbeucr2q62o