John Rex's profile photo

John Rex

Wellesley Hills

Editor-in-Chief at AMR.Solutions

Antibiotic developer & sender of occasional AMR newsletters. Antibiotics are the #FireExtinguishersOfMedicine! 💊🧯⚕️ #StopSuperbugs #AMRSOS

Featured in: Favicon forbes.com Favicon nature.com Favicon ibtimes.com Favicon oxfordjournals.org Favicon forbes.com.br Favicon statnews.com Favicon thelancet.com Favicon asm.org Favicon buffalonews.com Favicon fergusfallsjournal.com

Articles

  • Extending STEDI to diagnostics: STRIDES

    1 week ago | amr.solutions | John Rex

    Dear All (and with thanks to Betsy Trainor for co-authoring),The idea of the STEDI values of an antibiotic (its fire extinguisher-like values) comes up often. As a reminder, the STEDI values are Spectrum, Transmission, Enablement, Diversity, and Insurance. As a good example, consider Enablement: knowing that an antibiotic exists as a backup makes safe (enables) therapies such as joint replacement because we can treat an infection should one arise.

  • Churchill (1944) → WHO Pandemic Agreement and the Hamburg Statement (2025)

    3 weeks ago | amr.solutions | John Rex

    Dear All,D-Day and the momentous Normandy landings were 81 years ago today.

  • FDA Listening Sessions for CEOs, CMOs, or heads of R&D

    1 month ago | amr.solutions | John Rex

    Dear All, Pushing this one out as a direct quote from the online materials posted yesterday by FDA. Looks interesting! All best wishes, –jrThe U.S. Food and Drug Administration is conducting a national listening tour to meet directly with pharmaceutical and biotech CEOs. Held in major innovation hubs across the country, the CEO Forums will be led by FDA Commissioner Marty A.

  • IDWeek 2025: Present your novel antimicrobial or diagnostic

    1 month ago | amr.solutions | John Rex

    John’s Top Recurring MeetingsVirtual meetings are easy to attend, but regular attendance at annual in-person events is the key to building your network and gaining deeper insight. My personal favorites for such in-person meetings are below. Of particular value for developers are BEAM’s AMR Conference and GAMRIC (formerly, the ESCMID-ASM conference series). Hope to see you there!1-3 Oct 2025 GAMRIC, the Global AMR Innovators Conference (London, UK).

  • Vaccine development: Polytheism vs. Monotheism

    1 month ago | amr.solutions | John Rex

    John’s Top Recurring MeetingsVirtual meetings are easy to attend, but regular attendance at annual in-person events is the key to building your network and gaining deeper insight. My personal favorites for such in-person meetings are below. Of particular value for developers are BEAM’s AMR Conference and GAMRIC (formerly, the ESCMID-ASM conference series). Hope to see you there!1-3 Oct 2025 GAMRIC, the Global AMR Innovators Conference (London, UK).

Contact details

Emails

[email protected]

Socials & Sites

Try JournoFinder For Free

Search and contact over 1M+ journalist profiles, browse 100M+ articles, and unlock powerful PR tools.

Start Your 7-Day Free Trial →

X (formerly Twitter)

Followers
2K
Tweets
871
DMs Open
No
John H. Rex, MD
John H. Rex, MD @JohnRex_NewAbx
20 Nov 24

For #WAAW24, I ask you to take a moment to celebrate the @WHO Task Force of AMR Survivors. @purdiedad73 and @ellabalasa1 joined me to share their stories and details of their work so far. Listen now! https://t.co/tuHUb2MwNM #StopSuperbugs #AMRSOS⚕️ #FireExtinguishersOfMedicine

John H. Rex, MD
John H. Rex, MD @JohnRex_NewAbx
18 Nov 24

RT @IneosOxford: Today is the start of World AMR Awareness Week #WAAW This year's theme is 'Educate. Advocate. Act Now.' Throughout the we…

John H. Rex, MD
John H. Rex, MD @JohnRex_NewAbx
18 Nov 24

RT @CDC_AR: #AntimicrobialResistance (AR) is estimated to kill more than 1 million globally each year. Preventing infections in the first p…