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April 11, 2025 | Breaking News – Vivli announces the 2025 AMR Surveillance Data Challenge to Initiate April 15th

Vivli is excited to announce the launch of the 2025 Vivli AMR Surveillance Data Challenge, opening on April 15, 2025. Now in its third year, this global competition is funded by Johnson & Johnson, Paratek, Pfizer, and an NIH award* and is designed to stimulate innovative reuse of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) surveillance data housed in the AMR Register.

This Challenge invites multidisciplinary research teams to harness high-quality industry AMR surveillance data to tackle critical questions in AMR. Participants will compete for prestigious awards by generating new insights that contribute to the global fight against antimicrobial resistance.

Participants will use high-quality industry data from the AMR Register, which has been significantly expanded this year with new datasets and refreshed with new datasets. This is a unique opportunity for researchers across disciplines to generate fresh insights and contribute meaningfully to the global effort to combat AMR.

What prizes can be won?

A total of 5 awards will be provided that are associated with monetary awards and/or travel

  • 2 Grand Prize Awards –
    • AMR Global Leadership Award Grand Prize
    • AMR Visionary Award Grand Prize
      • Each for $10,000 and a travel grant of $5,000 to travel to an infectious disease conference 2026 if an abstract is accepted
  • 1 AMR Student Innovation Award –receiving a travel grant of $5,000 to travel to an infectious disease conference in 2026, if their abstract is accepted
  • 2 Awards – 1 Award in AMR Impact, 1 Award in AMR Innovation; Each receiving $5,000 and a travel grant of $2,000 to travel to an infectious disease conference in 2026, if their abstract is accepted

Sign up to the data challenge Slack Channel to be notified when the challenge is open and to keep updated about the latest information and details about this data challenge.

* Funded in part by NIH Award
Generalist Repository Ecosystem Initiative (GREI)
Other Transaction Agreement No.: 1OT2DB000003-