CANS

Centre for New Antibacterial Strategies

Centre for new antibacterial strategies (CANS) is a large interdisciplinary centre at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway for research, education, innovation and dissemination related to antimicrobial resistance (AMR). CANS currently involves sixteen research groups located at three faculties and covers topics within marine bioprospecting – identification and characterization of new antibacterial activities, design and synthesis of new antibiotics and resistance inhibitors, the evolution and molecular epidemiology of AMR, host-microbe-drug interactions, and antibiotic stewardship.

The centre aims to strengthen current activities, but also support new basic research in novel concepts for sustainable antibacterial activities in AMR-prevention and treatment strategies through new permanent and temporary (tenure-track, postdoc and PhD) positions.

CANS is financed through UiT and Tromsø Research Foundation (TFS).

The Nordic AMR Centre Conference 2024

Tromsø/Daniel Vogel

CANS, as part of the Network of Nordic AMR Centers, invites researchers, PhDs and postdocs from all Nordic AMR Centres to a conference in Tromsø from 13 to 15 March 2024. There will be lectures, posters and an exciting mixture of networking and cross-disciplinary discussions. Full programme to be announced.

The conference will cover the following aspects: 

  • Alternative strategies
  • Clinical aspects of AMR
  • Diagnostic
  • Economy
  • Emergence and spread
  • Environmental AMR
  • Evolution
  • Global challenges
  • Microbiome
  • New antibiotics
  • Stewardship

Registration is now closed. Contact CANS coordinator Lise Nordgård for more information.

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CANS seminars


Research groups



Antibiotic resistance breakers
Digibiotics
Drug Transport and Delivery Research Group
Health Data Lab
The Host-Microbe Interactions (HMI) group
Identification and Prevention of Suboptimal medicine use
The LacZymes group
Marbio – an analytic platform for natural products
Marine Bioprospecting
Microbial Pharmacology and Population Biology
Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology
Natural Products and Medicinal Chemistry
NORM – Norwegian organization for surveillance of antimicrobial resistance
Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Detection of Antimicrobial Resistance (K-res)
Clinical and Experimental Dentistry
Pediatric Research group – Infection

Scientific leader team


Executive board


Scientific advisory board


 
Project leader
Prof. Arnfinn Sundsfjord
Email: arnfinn.sundsfjord@uit.no
Phone: +47 77644764 or +47 90616118 
Project coordinator
Dr. Lise Nordgård
Email: lise.nordgard@uit.no
Phone: +47 99749355
Communication advisor
Jan Fredrik Frantzen
Email: jan.f.frantzen@uit.no
Phone: +47 77646410 or +47 900 78 740

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