**AWARDS ISSUED PRIOR TO JANUARY 20, 2025, WERE FUNDED UNDER PREVIOUS ADMINISTRATIONS AND MAY NOT REFLECT THE PRIORITIES AND POLICIES OF THE CURRENT ADMINISTRATION.** SINCE THE INAUGURAL MEETING IN 2010, THE MEDVETPATHOGENS CONFERENCES HAVE BEEN AN INVALUABLE SOURCE OF INFORMATION ON ANIMAL, HUMAN AND ZOONOTIC INFECTIONS, WITH AN EMPHASIS ON BACTERIAL PATHOGENESIS, ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE, AND CONTROL. THE MEDVETPATHOGENS HOME IS THE BEAUTIFUL MONASH UNIVERSITY PRATO CENTRE WITHIN THE 18TH-CENTURY PALAZZO VAJ, LOCATED IN THE OLD TOWN REGION OF PRATO, ITALY. PRATO IS THE THIRD MAJOR CITY IN TUSCANY, LOCATED ONLY 20 KM/30-MINUTE TRAIN JOURNEY FROM FLORENCE. THE MEDVETPATHOGENS CONFERENCE COMMUNITY SUPPORTS THE ONE HEALTH ETHOS AND CONSIDERS ALL PATHOGENS ARE WITHIN AN EVOLUTIONARY CONTINUUM; ANY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN HUMAN AND VETERINARY PATHOGENS ARE THE CONSEQUENCE OF NICHE AND HOST ADAPTIVE PROCESSES. RESEARCH THAT LEADS TO IMPROVED ANTIMICROBIAL STEWARDSHIP IS AN ESSENTIAL COMPONENT OF THIS ETHOS AND IN 2025 WE AGAIN WELCOME CONTRIBUTIONS THAT REPORT ON ANTIMICROBIAL RESISTANCE AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF NOVEL ANTIMICROBIALS. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS FOR MEDVETPATHOGENS 2025 ARE PROFESSOR GEORGINA COX FROM THE UNIVERSITY NOTTINGHAM, PROFESSOR JEAN-MARCO GHICO FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF DUBLIN, AND PROFESSOR MARK LAWRENCE FROM MISSISSIPPI STATE UNIVERSITY. THE 2025 MULTINATIONAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE INCLUDES JOHN BOYCE (AUSTRALIA), MARINA HARPER (AUSTRALIA), KASPER R&OSLASH;MER VILLUMSEN (DENMARK), AND TOM INZANA (UNITED STATES). WE WARMLY WELCOME ALL INTERNATIONAL DELEGATES FROM RESEARCH, EDUCATIONAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL BACKGROUNDS TO JOIN THE MEDVETPATHOGENS CONFERENCE COMMUNITY IN PRATO IN MAY 2025. THE MEDVETPATHOGENS 2025 CONFERENCE WILL BE HELD AT THE MONASH UNIVERSITY PRATO CENTRE, SITUATED ON THE GROUND AND FIRST FLOORS OF THE ELEGANT 18TH CENTURY PALAZZO VAJ ON VIA PUGLIESI IN THE HISTORIC CENTRE OF PRATO, ITALY. THE MONASH UNIVERSITY PRATO CENTRE, HOUSED IN PALAZZO VAJ, IS IN THE CENTRE OF THE OLD TOWN OF PRATO, ONLY TWO MINUTES AWAY FROM THE CITY'S CATHEDRAL AND WALKING DISTANCE FROM BOTH TRAIN STATIONS (PRATO PORTA AL SERRAGLIO AND PRATO CENTRALE).