2016 Pediatric Antimicrobial Resistance Pilot:
Congratulations to the Recipients of the 2016 Pediatric Antimicrobial Resistance Pilot:
Pediatric Antimicrobial Resistance Collaboration (PARC)
Co-PIs:
Mark Gonzalez, PhD (Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta, Clinical Microbiology)
David Weiss, PhD (Emory University, Emory Antibiotic Resistance Center)
Clinical Liaison:
Andi Shane, MD, MPH, MSc (Emory University and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta)
The Pediatric Antimicrobial Resistance Collaboration (PARC), a partnership between laboratory and clinical scientists affiliated with Emory ARC and Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta. PARC will serve as a collaboration upon which collections of residual (left over from clinical care) pediatric biological specimens (bacterial isolates) and laboratory testing procedures assays) will be shared between PARC (P.I. Mark Gonzalez, PhD) and Emory ARC (P.I. David Weiss, PhD) collaborators to investigate novel antibiotic resistance mechanisms in specimens from children.