Winners Announced for the 2025 Vivli AMR Surveillance Data Challenge, funded by Johnson & Johnson, Paratek, Pfizer, and NIH

The 2025 Vivli AMR Surveillance Data Challenge, funded by Johnson & Johnson, Paratek, Pfizer, and the U.S. NIH, attracted 58 teams from 22 countries to develop innovative analyses of global AMR surveillance datasets. Two Grand Prizes were awarded: one to George Priya Doss Chandrakumar’s team for revealing how air pollution may drive fluconazole resistance in Candida glabrata, and another to Claire Vania and Anushruti Gupta for using machine learning to model policy impacts on AMR trajectories. Additional awards recognized groundbreaking work from teams at Oxford, Ibadan, Ghana, and CNAM Paris, alongside an honorable mention for Institut Pasteur’s gene-tracking project. The initiative highlights the growing role of open data, cross-disciplinary research, and One Health approaches in advancing global AMR surveillance and policy innovation.