CANS

Centre for New Antibacterial Strategies

Centre for new antibacterial strategies (CANS) is a new, large interdisciplinary centre at UiT – The Arctic University of Norway for research, education, innovation and dissemination related to antimicrobial resistance (AMR). CANS currently involves sixteen research groups located at three faculties and covers topics within marine bioprospecting – identification and characterization of new antibacterial activities, design and synthesis of new antibiotics and resistance inhibitors, the evolution and molecular epidemiology of AMR, host-microbe-drug interactions, and antibiotic stewardship.

The centre aims to strengthen current activities, but also support new basic research in novel concepts for sustainable antibacterial activities in AMR-prevention and treatment strategies through new permanent and temporary (tenure-track, postdoc and PhD) positions.

CANS is financed through UiT and Tromsø Research Foundation (TFS).

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Research groups



Antibiotic resistance breakers
Digibiotics
Drug Transport and Delivery Research Group
Health Data Lab
The Host-Microbe Interactions (HMI) group
Identification and Prevention of Suboptimal medicine use
The LacZymes group
Marbio – an analytic platform for natural products
Marine Bioprospecting
Microbial Pharmacology and Population Biology
Molecular Pharmacology and Toxicology
Natural Products and Medicinal Chemistry
NORM – Norwegian organization for surveillance of antimicrobial resistance
Norwegian National Advisory Unit on Detection of Antimicrobial Resistance (K-res)
Oral Ecology
Pediatric Research group – Infection

Scientific leader team


Executive board


Scientific advisory board


Project leader
Prof. Arnfinn Sundsfjord
Email: arnfinn.sundsfjord@uit.no
Phone: +47 77644764 or +47 90616118 
Project coordinator
Dr. Lise Nordgård
Email: lise.nordgard@uit.no
Phone: +47 99749355
Communication advisor
Jan Fredrik Frantzen
Email: jan.f.frantzen@uit.no
Phone: +47 77646410 or +47 900 78 740

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