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THE NEXT GENERATION OF ANTIBIOTICS FT. PROFESSOR ANASTASIA CALLAGHAN

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"You can't have modern medicine without antibiotics because you can't have surgery.... All your chemotherapies impact immunity. I think it would be good if we could find a way to not get the resistance coming back"

 

Antibiotics have transformed healthcare and meant that once life-threatening illnesses can be treated with ease, but resistant bacteria are a worrying prospect. That’s why Professor Anastasia Callaghan’s been exploring the inner mechanisms of bad bacteria to find out if further innovations can stop them multiplying in the first place.

 

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Professor Anastasia Callaghan - Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biohysics

https://www.port.ac.uk/about-us/structure-and-governance/our-people/our-staff/anastasia-callaghan

 

Antimicrobial resistance as a global concern - https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/antimicrobial-resistance

Antimicrobial resistance and Antibiotics – NHS - https://www.nhs.uk/conditions/antibiotics/antibiotic-antimicrobial-resistance/

 

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