by Pei Hayes | Jul 1, 2022 | Blog
Ash is part of the ASPIRES consortium, which is aiming to improve the use of antibiotics in surgical settings; specifically, he focuses on how pathogens (disease causing bugs) spread in nosocomial infection (these are infections which are picked up by patients when...
by Pei Hayes | Apr 1, 2022 | Blog
Pauline Lang is a biochemist from our first cohort of fully-funded students. Her molecular research focuses on understanding how drug-resistance occurs to help protect the antibiotics we have already and to aid the design of new ones. Only a century ago,...
by Claire Spreadbury | Feb 16, 2022 | Blog
Antibiotics are our best friend and our worst enemy. These drugs are a vital tool in fighting infections which, left untreated, could cause serious illness or even death. But overuse of antibiotics is encouraging bacteria to become resistant to their effects,...
by Pei Hayes | Dec 11, 2020 | Blog
Dr Wezi Sendama, a PhD student in our 2nd cohort, is investigating why people become more susceptible to infection as they get older. Answering this question could help reduce our reliance on antibiotics, and slow the spread of AMR. Dr Wezi Sendama Newcastle...
by Pei Hayes | Oct 15, 2020 | Blog
Investigating AMR transmission between animals and people – the OH-STAR study Jordan Sealey, a PhD student in Cohort 1 of our National PhD Training Programme in AMR Research, is investigating how genes that make bacteria resistant to antibiotics may be shared between...
by Claire Spreadbury | Aug 7, 2020 | Blog
Kevin Chau, a PhD student in the first cohort of our National PhD Training Programme in AMR Research, has contributed to the pandemic response as part of the Modernising Medical Microbiology team at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. In this blog post, he...