2024

Skender, B. & Zhang, M. From local issue to global challenge: a brief overview of antibiotic shortage since the 1970s. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 11, 1242 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03759-y

Alas Portillo, Mirza; Paterson, Erin; Wells, Nadya; Vagneron, Frédéric; Kirchhelle, Claas, Emerging Financial Models for Antibiotic Development (2000-2016). DryAP and Geneva Graduate Institute Witness Seminar (Strasbourg: UnivOak, 2024), https://doi.org/10.34931/n7pk-3n88

Skender, B. The demise of the antibiotic pipeline: the Bayer case. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 11, 1069 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03584-3

Alas Portillo, Mirza, Isabel M Gómez Rodríguez, Christoph Gradmann, Claas Kirchhelle, Jørgen J. Leisner, Laura D. Martinenghi, Erin L. Paterson, Maria Jesús Santesmases, Belma Skender, and Frédéric Vagneron, ‘Paradoxes of the antibiotic pipeline’, Nature Humanities & Social Sciences Communications (2024), https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03211-1

Kirchhelle, Claas & Brives, Charlotte (eds.), “Variable Viruses: The Past, Present and Future of Bacteriophage Research”, Phage: Therapy, Applications, Research Vol. 5 No. 1 (March) 2024, https://www.liebertpub.com/toc/phage/5/1

Turner, Paul E., Joana Azeredo, Ed T. Buurman, Sabrina Green, Jakob Krause Haaber, Douglas Haagstrom, Koichi Kameda, Claas Kirchhelle, Mercedes Gonzalez Moreno, Jean-Paul Pirnay, Mirza Alas Portillo, ‘Addressing the Research and Development Gaps in Modern Phage Therapy’, Phage: Therapy, Applications, Research Vol. 5 No. 1 (March 2024), 30-39, https://doi.org/10.1089/phage.2023.0045

2023

Kirchhelle, C. The Antibiocene – towards an eco-social analysis of humanity’s antimicrobial footprint. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 10, 619 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-023-02127-6 

Glover, Rebecca E.; Singer, Andrew; Roberts, Adam; Kirchhelle, Claas, ‘Dressed for success? Why is the UK Antibiotic subscription model pilot being described as ‘successful’, Lancet Microbe (22.08.2023), https://doi.org/10.1016/S2666-5247(23)00250-1

Gradmann, Christoph and Kirchhelle, Claas, ‘Pills and Politics – a historical analysis of international antibiotic regulation since 1945’, in Rubin, Oliver, Boekkeskov, Eric and Munkholm, Louise (eds.), Steering Superbugs. The Global Governance of Antimicrobials (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023), https://global.oup.com/academic/product/steering-against-superbugs-9780192899477?cc=fr&lang=en&# 

Kirchhelle, Claas, & Podolsky, Scott Harris. (2023). An Awkward Fit: Antimicrobial Resistance and the Evolution of International Health Politics (1945-2022). Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics, 50(S2), 40-46. https://doi:10.1017/jme.2022.78  

2022

Thornber, Kelly; Adshead, Fiona; Balayannis, Angeliki; Brazier, Richard; Brown, Ross; Comber, Sean; Court, Caroline; Davidson, Iain; Depledge, Michael; Farmer, Caroline; Gibb, Stuart; Hixson, Richard; Kirchhelle, Claas; Moore, Keith; Motta, Marco; Niemi, Lydia; Owen, Steward; Pencheon, David; Pfleger, Sharon; Pitchforth, Emma; Powell, Nei; Schmidt, Wiebke; Smith, Richard; Sowman, Georgina; Tyler-Batt, Wendy; Wilkinson, Helen; Wilson, Edward C.F.; Fleming, Lora; Gaze, William, “First, do no harm: time for a systems approach to address the problem of healthcare-derived pharmaceutical pollution”, Lancet Planetary Health 6/12(2022), https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00309-6

Palanco Lopez, P., Manyau, S., Dixon, J., MacPherson, E., Nayiga, S., Manton, J., Kirchhelle, C., & Chandler, C. (2022). Antibiotic Arrivals in Africa: A Case Study of Yaws and Syphilis in Malawi, Zimbabwe and Uganda. Medicine Anthropology Theory, 9(3), 1-31. https://doi.org/10.17157/mat.9.3.5633

Glover, Rebecca; Singer, Andrew; Roberts, Adam; Kirchhelle, Claas, “The antibiotic subscription model: fostering innovation or repackaging old drugs?”, Lancet Microbe (2022), https://doi.org/10.1016/S2666-5247(22)00235-X

Kirchhelle, Claas and Roberts, Adam, “Embracing the monsters: moving from ‘infection control’ to ‘microbial health’”, Lancet Microbe, https://doi.org/10.1016/S2666-5247(22)00225-7

Thornber, Kelly, and Claas Kirchhelle. "Hardwiring antimicrobial resistance mitigation into global policy." JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance 4, no. 4 (2022): dlac083, https://doi.org/10.1093/jacamr/dlac083

Weldon, Isaac; Van Katwyk, Susan Rogers; Burci, Gian Luca; Campos Thana C de; Eccleston-Turner, Mark; Fryer, Helen R.; Giubilini, Alberto; Hale, Thomas; Harrison, Mark; Johnson, Stephanie; Kirchhelle, Claas; Lee, Kelley; Liddell, Kathleen; Mendelsohn, Marc; Ooms, Gorik; Orbinski, James; Piddock, Laura J.V.; Røttingen, John-Arne; Savulescu, Julian; Singer, Andrew C.; Viens, A.M.; Wenham, Clare; Wiktorowicz, Mary E.; Zaidi, Shehla; Hoffman, Steven J., ‘Lessons for Antimicrobial Resistance from the Paris Climate Agreement’, American Journal of Public Health 112 April (2022), 553-557, https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2021.306695

L. Martinenghi and J.J. Leisner (2022) Scientists’ assessments of research on lactic acid bacterial bacteriocins 1990-2010. Frontiers in Microbiology, https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fmicb.2022.908336/abstract

2021

Glover, Rebecca E., Andrew C. Singer, Adam P. Roberts, and Claas Kirchhelle. "NIMble innovation—a networked model for public antibiotic trials." The Lancet Microbe 2, no. 11 (2021): e637-e644.

2024

18.07.2024 - Isabel María Gómez Rodríguez. “Gender, microbes and antibiotics: experimental detail in Spanish women microbiologists' research (1980s-1990s)". Communication at “Microbial methods and practices for doing STS otherwise” Panel, Maya Hey y Salla Sariola, org. EASST-4S 2024 Making and Doing Transformations, Joint Congress of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Amsterdam.

18.07.2024 - Andrea Núñez Casal & María Jesús Santesmases. “Traces of ergot: fungi, women, and embodied sensing". Communication at “Microbial methods and practices for doing STS otherwise” Panel, Maya Hey y Salla Sariola, org. EASST-4S 2024 Making and Doing Transformations, Joint Congress of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) and the Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), Amsterdam.

12.04.2024 - Belma Skender. "Can innovation be a symptom of crisis? Antibiotics in the era of a pipeline running dry" at Cercle de recherche interdisciplinaire sur les humanités médicales, Institut de Recherches Historiques du Septentrion, Universite de Lille, France. 

12.01.2024 -  Presentations at the Author's Workshop "A New History of Microbes and Disease in Environments, 1970-2000", organized by Angela N.H. Creager, Christoph Gradmann and Mathias Grote. Princeton University, Center for Collaborative History, Dickinson Hall. https://history.princeton.edu/centers/center-collaborative-history/scholarly-series-events/conferences/authors-workshop-new 

Claas Kirchhelle and Frédéric Vagneron. "Culture, Codes, Communities: Connecting the International History of Microbiology and Microbial Culture Collections (1890-2010)

Christoph Gradmann. “Hospital Infections and Disease Evolution”.

María Jesús Santesmases. "Practicing with microbes: Skills and visual cultures for a gendered genealogy".

2023

14.09.2023 - Isabel María Gómez Rodríguez. “Encontrar científicas: Reflexiones sobre las fuentes de información en historiografía feminista”. Commmunication at XIV Congreso Iberoamericano Ciencia, Tecnología y Género [Iberoamerican Congress in Science, Technology and Gender], Madrid.

13.09.2023 - María Jesús Santesmases. "Microbios y género: mujeres y resistencias en la investigación y en la industria, 1930s- 1960s". Commmunication at XIV Congreso Iberoamericano Ciencia, Tecnología y Género [Iberoamerican Congress in Science, Technology and Gender], Madrid.

13.09.2023 - Isabel María Gómez Rodríguez. “Testimonios de biocientíficas en España: iniciativa de divulgación feminista de L’Oréal” Commmunication at Symposium “La comunicación de la ciencia desde la mirada feminista” Marta I. González García & Natalia Fernández Jimeno (orgs.), XIV Congreso Iberoamericano Ciencia, Tecnología y Género [Iberoamerican Congress in Science, Technology and Gender], Madrid.

02.09.2023 - "Antibiotics in Crisis" - two panels with presentations on the Dry Antibiotic Pipeline by the Early Career Researchers of the Empty Pipeline project at the 2023 European Association for the History of Medicine 2023 Conference in Oslo, Norway. 

31.08.2023 - María Jesús Santesmases. "Historicizing antibiotics, AMR and fungi: Gender, biomedicine, health policy and industry, 1980s-1990s". European Association for the History of Medicine and Health 2023 Conference, University of Oslo, Oslo.

09.06.2023 - Belma Skender & Laura Martinenghi “Peering into the ‘Dry Pipeline’ of antibiotics: Annual reports’ storytelling.” 6th Nordic STS Conference 2023. TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo, Norway. 

18.04.2023 - Isabel María Gómez Rodríguez. “Situating the history of antibiotics: Spanish women microbiologists 1980s-1990s”. Seminar at the Medical Anthropology and Medical History Seminar Series (MAH), University of Oslo.

16-17.03.2023 - María Jesús Santesmases. "Epistemología microbiana: circulación de saberes y prácticas sobre infecciones y antibióticos". Escuela de Invierno virtual, Máster Interuniversitario de Lógica y Filosofía de la Ciencia, Universidad de Salamanca, Universidad de Valladolid, Universidad de Granada.

2022

08.12.2022 - Belma Skender “How did the Antibiotic Pipeline Run Dry? Looking into pharmaceutical companies.” Seminar on Antibiotic resistance and complexity in health education. AntiMicrobials in Complex Systems, Centre for Sustainable Healthcare Education, University of Oslo, Norway. 

07.12.2022 - Isabel María Gómez Rodríguez. “Women Researchers in the Early Years of Fosfomycin”. Seminar in Laboratory SAGE (Societies, Actors and Government in Europe), in the Department of History of Life Sciences and Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Strasbourg.

15.11.2022 - Isabel María Gómez Rodríguez. “Antibióticos y mujeres. Industria, clínica y academia en la comunidad científica española”. Communication at the workshop entitled “¿Qué podemos aprender, y qué no, de las pandemias anteriores a la Covid-19? Cuidados, cuarentenas y políticas públicas de salud global” Jon Arrizabalaga and María Jesús Santesmases, orgs. (ISCIII, CSIC-COV19-215).

15.11.2022 - María Jesús Santesmases. “Cuidados, cultivos, mujeres: género y microbios”. Communication at the workshop entitled “¿Qué podemos aprender, y qué no, de las pandemias anteriores a la Covid-19? Cuidados, cuarentenas y políticas públicas de salud global” Jon Arrizabalaga and María Jesús Santesmases, orgs. (ISCIII, CSIC-COV19-215).

25.10.2022 - María Jesús Santesmases. "Políticas de antibióticos: industria, investigación y género". Invited seminar at the Department of History of Economics, Master of Economic History, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona, October 25, 2022.

08.09.2022 - Isabel Gómez Rodríguez. "Women Microbiologists: Approaching the Spanish Antibiotic Research Community (1975-1990)" communication at the European Society for the History of Science ESHS2022 Conference, Brussels, September 7-10, 2022.

08.09.2022 - María Jesús Santesmases. “Gender and the sources of microbe and antimicrobial stories”. Communication at the European Society for the History of Science ESHS2022 Conference, Brussels, September 7-10, 2022.

06.07.2022 - María J Santesmases and Isabel Gómez Rodríguez. Reconstructing the gender-microbes relationship: women, antibiotics and antibiotic resistances in research and industry. Communication at the Symposium Microbes - Thinking past dualisms  Session 2 - Salla Sariola, Jose Cañada & Mikko Jauho, orgs. EASST 2022, Congress of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology, Madrid, July 6-9, 2022.

16.06.2022 - Isabel Gómez Rodríguez. "Fosfomicina: Relaciones entre industria, clínica y academia en la comunidad científica española (1975-1990)". XVIII Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Historia de la Medicina (Congress of the Spanish Society for the History of Medicine), Valencia, 15-17 June 2022.

16.06.2022 - María Jesús Santesmases. “Infección, genética y género: los gérmenes como objetos híbridos heredables”. Communication at the XVIII Congreso de la Sociedad Española de Historia de la Medicina (Congress of the Spanish Society for the History of Medicine); Valencia, 15-17 de junio de 2022. 

19.05.2022 - María J. Santesmases (STS Department, Institute of Philosophy, Spanish National Research Council – CSIC, Madrid), “Penicillin and Gender: Their Circulation in Research and Industry, 1940s-1970s”. Invited seminar, at the Séminaire Laboratoire Agora, Cergy Paris Université. https://cyagora.cyu.fr/version-francaise/seminaires/sixieme-seance-du-seminaire-2021-2022-dagora 

07.04.2022 - Mirza Alas Portillo: How the pipeline ran dry: towards a critical historiography of the antibiotic pipeline (1970-2020), UCD Center of the History of Medicine in Ireland Research Seminar.