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This vacancy is not a position with the Municipality of Amsterdam or GGD Amsterdam. If selected, you will be employed directly by Amsterdam UMC Research BV, which will be responsible for your employment contract and terms and conditions of employment.

About the project

The RESIST project addresses the growing challenge of antimicrobial resistance in Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG), one of the most common sexually transmitted infections worldwide. NG is among the few pathogens that has developed resistance to every first-line antibiotic used against it. Treatment failures with current first-line therapies have already been reported.

This PhD project focuses on the within-host emergence of antimicrobial resistance. You will investigate how resistance develops within individuals, with specific attention to differences between anatomical sites, where an...