Join ISAC's Working Group

Welcome all early career professionals!

Do you want to be more involved in the ISAC Early Career community? We are excited to announce that ISAC has established a new Early Career Working Group, founded and led by Jinxin Zhao (Monash University, Australia).

Joining the ISAC Early Career Working Group committee is a great way to improve your leadership skills, build your confidence, get involved with / contribute to the Early Career Community and build long-lasting networks for collaborations worldwide.

Eligibility

• It is preferable that applicants should be a member of an ISAC Member Society. Click here for full list of ISAC Member Societies.
• Applicants should identify as Early Career Professional who are under the age of 35 or awarded PhD degree with the last 5 years in antimicrobials or a related field.
• Be an active member of the group and participate in regular meetings / activities.

Once the group has established an ordinary membership base, nominations will be solicited for the unfilled Officer positions.

Joining couldn't be easier: email Fee Johnstone, ISAC Executive Assistant at secretariat@isac.world with your CV to join today!

Aims & Objectives

There has never been a more critical time than the present for the next-generation researchers/clinicians/clinical pharmacists in the field of antimicrobial chemotherapy to engage in the early stages of their careers to keep up with the novel techniques and to ensure timely response to the current global health threats. This Working Group aims to serve as a platform to communicate with senior researchers and provide young researchers worldwide opportunities to build long-lasting networks for collaborations.

The work plan for the group is as follows:

• Provide assistance for ISAC programmes to ensure the International Congress of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy (ICC), ISAC's biennial congress. scientific programme is relevant and attractive to early career researchers. The 34th ICC will take place in Manila, Philippines in November 2026.

• Work with relevant ISAC committees/Working Groups and senior researchers to devise a professional development programme.

• Provide a contact point for Early Career Researchers (ECR) to bring them into our Society and form a young scientist network.

• Work with the ISAC committee members to have ECR Working Group feature in ISAC journals (International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents / Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance), newsletters and a presence on the website to share information on activities and opportunities.

• Build collaborations with other committees and organisations on areas of common interest.

• The group is encouraged to contribute to the ISAC Academy, a free, online learning platform

Webinars

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COMING SOON...

Deciphering the mechanisms of Antimicrobial resistance and MOA of synergistic combination by untargeted metabolomics
Dr Nusaibah Abdul Rahim, Head of Department of Clinical Pharmacy & Pharmacy Practice; Co-Director of the Malaya Translational and Clinical Pharmacometrics Group, University Malaya

Genome-scale metabolic modeling in antimicrobial pharmacology
Dr Jinxin Zhao, Research Fellow, Biomedicine Discovery Institute, Monash University; Chair of ISAC Early Career Working Group

How molecular dynamics and immersive analysis accelerate antibiotic resistance research (Need to confirm the availability)
Miss Sabrina Jaeger and Mr Michael Aichem

New analysis methods to extract more genomic information from malaria parasite sequencing data
Dr Jiru Han, Research Fellow, Population Health and Immunity, The Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research

Congresses