The workshop combines three AMiCI working groups: WG1 – Safe by design, WG2- Performance assessment and WG3- Adverse effects. The concept is to have introductive presentations, a Word Café session, and then a discussion forum on how to improve antimicrobial coatings and its efficacy testing. The objective is to deliver an official statement on the use of antimicrobial coatings in a health care setting. The
Joint seminar of the COST AMiCI Action Core Group and WG3 held in NICPB, Tallinn, Estonia
On 16th-17th November 2017, the joint seminar of the COST AMICI Network Core Group and the Working Group 3 was held in the National Institute of Chemical Physics and Biophysics, Tallinn, Estonia. The European Union COST Action AMICI brings together experts on the synthesis, use and assessment of unwanted side effects of antimicrobial coatings. The project is coordinated by dr. Francy Crijns (Zuyd University of
Pori Ready to Welcome Participants of AMiCI meeting (June 6-8th)
Pori is ready to welcome participants of the second COST Action AMiCI conference. The final program of the meeting: Day 1 (6th of June) The Conference ‘Antimicrobial coatings in healthcare: from innovation to the market’. Key-note speakers will cover issues along the AMC value chain; from patents, regulatory, implementation in hospitals, to evaluation of the impact taken from a real life example. The conference will
Second AMiCI Conference planned for June 6-8 in Pori (Finland)
Based on lessons learnt from the AMiCI meeting in Heerlen (November 2016), the focus of the second meeting, planned in June 2017 in Pori (Finland), will move to the expertise within the working groups. The framework program of the meeting: Day 1 (6th of June) The Conference ‘Antimicrobial coatings in healthcare: from innovation to the market’. Key-note speakers will cover issues along the AMC value
First AMiCI Working Group meetings in Heerlen – A great success!
November 16-17 ’ 2016 the first WG meetings of our COST AMiCI Action took place at the premises of Zuyd University of Applied Sciences in Heerlen, the Netherlands. Zuyd is the Grant Holder institution of the Action. We welcomed about 80 participants of 24 different European COST countries. After a short welcome of our director of the Bèta Sciences and Technology faculty and myself, the four