Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the emergence of bacterial strains that survive antibiotic treatments, is a major global public health concern, causing more than 1.2 million deaths each year and threatening a return to a pre-antibiotic era. Tackling AMR is a multi-faceted problem that involves actions and interventions from the understanding of AMR mechanisms to the development of new antibiotics and diagnostic tests. A panel of AMR specialists will discuss the problem and the action that is needed to slow down this "silent epidemic".
DISCUSSION PANEL MEMBERS:
Professor Achilles Kapanidis, Professor of Biological Physics, University of Oxford (CHAIR)
Professor Timothy Walsh OBE, Director of Biology, Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Research
Professor Hermine Mkrtchyan, Director of the Centre for Innovation in Genomics and Microbiome Sciences, University of West London
Professor William Gaze, Professor of Microbiology, University of Exeter
Professor Nicole Stoesser, Professor in Infectious Diseases, University of Oxford
and Consultant Clinician at John Radcliffe Hospital
Dr Michael Dawson, Oxford Drug Design
There will be a drinks reception following the talk to which everyone is welcome.
