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). Of those, 1.27 million deaths were the direct result of AMR — meaning that drug-resistant infections killed more people than did HIV/AIDS or malaria.Although there have been many studies on the effects of AMR, few have tried to estimate its global impact.
The six deadliest bacterial pathogens were responsible for nearly three-quarters of all deaths attributed to resistance . Antibiotic-resistantPeter Highnam, a computer scientist, has held several posts at US federal research funders.first chief executive of its new high-risk, high-reward research-funding agency
: Peter Highnam, the deputy director of the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency , on which the British organization is modelled. Highnam will start his five-year post in May. The UK agency, known as the Advanced Research and Invention Agency , will have a budget of £800 million over 4 years. It will give Highnam, and whoever chairs the organization, the power to choose which areas of science to fund. This approach stands in contrast to UK Research and Innovation, the country’s main research-funding organization, which disburses its yearly budget mostly through competitive grant schemes.
Highnam has worked at DARPA since 2018, and he has stepped up run the agency temporarily. He has previously worked at the US National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity, a DARPA spin-off that funds research to help the intelligence community. His appointment follows a flurry of activity in setting up ARIA. Last month, the bill that lays the legislative groundwork to set up the agency passed through UK Parliament.
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