Press office news tagged 'antibiotics'

University integral to £15.6m investment in maritime innovation at Appledore

University of Plymouth news: The University has played a critical role in enabling the Appledore Clean Maritime Innovation Centre to receive £15.6m of funding from the Levelling Up Fund issued by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
19 January 2023
University hosts activities for World Antimicrobial Awareness Week

Researchers at the University of Plymouth have planned a week of events that are designed to raise awareness of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the challenges it poses and the work taking place to address it.
17 November 2022
Drugs used to treat HIV and flu can have detrimental impact on crops

Scientists led by the University of Plymouth found that lettuce plants exposed to a higher concentration of four commonly-used drugs could be more than a third smaller in biomass than those grown in a drug-free environment.
28 January 2021
‘A threat greater than Covid’ – why we should be paying more attention to antimicrobial resistance

To coincide with World Antimicrobial Awareness Week (18-24 November 2020), Dr Tina Joshi and Matthew McKracken explain why antimicrobial resistance is an urgent and global threat to human health
18 November 2020
Plymouth-led antibiotic discovery network goes global

The Antibiotic Discovery Accelerator Network (ABX) has launched antibioticdiscovery.com to share expertise and develop new collaborations around the world.
16 November 2020
Treating Covid-19 could lead to increased antimicrobial resistance

Research by the University of Plymouth and Royal Cornwall Hospital Trust suggests the use of antibiotics in the treatment of COVID-19 patients could be placing an additional burden on waste water treatment works.
25 August 2020
UK – South Africa research team to establish ‘hub’ for discovery of new antibiotics

An international research collaboration has received funding to discover and accelerate the development of new antibiotics.
13 August 2020
Global challenges intertwined: how climate change is linked to antimicrobial resistance

For World Antibiotic Awareness Week (WAAW) 2019, Lecturer in Molecular Microbiology Dr Tina Joshi examines the interaction between arguably the two greatest current threats to humankind: climate change and the rise of antimicrobial resistance (AMR).
18 November 2019
Hospital gowns retain superbugs even after disinfectant use, research shows

The study showed that C difficile - a bacteria that can cause severe diarrhoea, bowel complications and even death - is surviving on surgical gowns despite disinfectant use
12 July 2019
University spinout receives £1.2million government funding to tackle antimicrobial resistance

Amprologix Limited, a University of Plymouth spinout company, has won a £1.2 million government contract to accelerate development and scale up its lead antibiotic candidate to tackle antimicrobial resistant MRSA and related superbugs
4 February 2019
‘Your infection can’t be treated’… a phrase too close to reality

In the lead up to World Antibiotic Awareness Week (12-18 November), Dr Tina Joshi from the University of Plymouth explains why we all need to take the threat of antibiotic resistance more seriously.
6 November 2018
University spin-out company to develop new antibiotics

New University of Plymouth spinout company Amprologix has been established to help tackle the problem of antibiotic resistance – by developing new antibiotics and bringing them to market. It is led by Professor Mat Upton in collaboration with Frontier IP
20 September 2018