Meet Marbella Arroyo, our Fall 2026 Levy CIMAR featured trainee! Marbella spent her summer developing a synthetic route to a key component of saarvienin A, a glycopeptide antibiotic with potent activity against multidrug-resistant Gram-positive pathogens.

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Meet Rebekah Johnson, the @armathsciarts.bsky.social high school citizen scientist & antimicrobial steward at the Little Rock Zoo and @tufts.edu Prevalence of Antibiotic Resistance in the Environment project participant testing for tetracycline-resistance genes.
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We had a great time hearing from our 2026 Levy CIMAR Summer Scholars yesterday on their fantastic research projects! Each student is an undergraduate working with a CIMAR faculty mentor on a unique summer project. Meet the scholars! 1/6

We are so proud that @tufts.edu is a part of the advisory council!
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We are running out of effective antibiotics faster than many people realize. Tackling #AMR will take science, policy, communication, and cross-sector collaboration working together. Glad to see initiatives like AMPLIFY AMR helping lead the effort. strategiccoalitions.com/amplify-amr

New from the Levy CIMAR: Restoration of daptomycin sensitivity with adjunctive cefazolin is associated with C-terminal MprF mutations in MRSA bacteremia isolates

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Check out our new look! 👀 We've revamped our Levy CIMAR website and are working hard to bring you some fresh content. Watch this space. 🚨
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Meet Ashley Luo, our Spring 2026 Feature Trainee! Ashley is a PhD candidate in the lab of CIMAR's own @tuftsnglab.bsky.social researching how pathogens develop systems to defend against phages and how phages evolve to develop their own counter defenses. Learn more:

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Meet Maryam Utegulova, a 2025 Levy CIMAR Summer Scholar! Under the mentorship of @ShenLabTufts, Maryam explored how bacterial spores transition from dormancy to germination—a process crucial to infection recurrence and antibiotic resistance. Learn more:

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We are now accepting applications for the 2026 Stuart B. Levy CIMAR Undergraduate Summer Internship in Science and Medicine! Recipients will work on a basic science, clinical, or educational project with a focus on AMR for 10 weeks, Jun-Aug. APPLY HERE:
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Today marks the official launch of the @eupohamr.bsky.social in Brussels! CARB-X is proud to join this global partnership of over 50 organizations from 30 countries, united in a shared mission: to address the growing threat of #AMR through a truly integrated One Health approach.

Meet Mallika Subramanian, a Tufts junior researching antibiotic-resistant babesiosis and the potential for novel therapies! Mallika was selected as a 2025 Levy CIMAR Summer Scholar and worked under the mentorship of Tufts Medical Center’s Dr. Edouard Vannier www.tuftscimar.org/mallika-subr...

Hygromycin A treatment of Borrelia burgdorferi-infected Peromyscus leucopus suggests potential as a reservoir-targeted antibiotic

✅ Just Accepted
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👀The Levy CIMAR has some VERY exciting news to share! 🥳Check out our Laboratory for Combinatorial Drug Regimen Design for Resistant & Emerging Pathogens (LCDRD), a major stride in our mission to fight AMR made possible by a $5.15 million NIH grant. MORE: medicine.tufts.edu/news-events/...

Meet Asli Dirik, a @TuftsUniversity IDoc (interdisciplinary doctoral) student working at @The_SilkLab on advanced bioresponsive materials and wearable interfaces for monitoring vaginal and reproductive health. 1/2 tuftscimar.org/asli-dirik-t...

To fight #AntimicrobialResistance, we must actively educate our young scientists! Each summer, CIMAR offers internships for undergraduate students to work on a basic science, clinical, or educational project with a focus on #AMR. APPLY: tuftscimar.org/levy-cimar-u... #WAAW #usaaw24

Meet CIMAR's Winter 2024 Feature Trainee Kap Sum Foong, MD, an Attending physician in infectious diseases and an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Tufts Medicine. He was named a CDC LEAP Fellow for 2023-2024 and Tufts CTSI K12 Scholar for 2025-2027. 1/2 tuftscimar.org/kap-sum-foon...