Why did you choose to research infections and their treatment?
Every day we are inching towards a world where we do not have antibiotics that work due to bacterial antibiotic resistance.
It threatens so many parts of modern healthcare, from treating everyday infections to conducting successful surgery and cancer therapies.
We choose to research antibiotic discovery to try and stop this happening.
Why is increasing antibiotic resistance a challenge to scientists?
Bacteria are alive. They respond to the environment and evolve to survive, and their survival is based on beating our drugs. It is like a never-ending battle between our drugs and the bacteria.
