BioStrike

=project for open antibiotics development

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By Pieter van Boheemen, Waag Society's Open Wetlab:

Topics being discussed around June 2014:

"- Global antibiotics abuse in medicine and animal farming

- Lack of incentive to investigate / develop new antibiotics for big pharma

- Biodiversity Convention

- Organization of decentralized bioprospecting

- Peer review of results

- Knowledge transfer on micro-biology

- Cooperation between open science community, industry and government

- Bridging the gap between compound discovery and drug development, from organizational, legal and financial perspective

In our Open Wetlab we are organizing the following:

- during the summer we will have a full week workshop on BioStrike

- we are planning a BioStrike conference, inviting parties from all sides"