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In this audio clip, Nishant Kumar, founder of Embryyo and a Longitude Prize competitor, discusses his personal experience with antibiotic resistance and the rapid, point-of-care device his team hopes to win the prize with.
Step 2 of the Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Diagnostic Challenge is now open to US teams and citizens making a rapid diagnostic test.
26 April 2018
Fighting superbugs in India: A short film
This 10 minute film highlights the problem of superbugs across the globe, but through the eyes of India. We interviewed doctors, patients, researchers and teams working to address antibiotic resistance with rapid diagnostic tests.
19 April 2018
Coming soon...A film on antibiotic resistance in India
On 25th April, we will be launching our new short film called "Fighting superbugs in India" at the Science Museum Lates in London.
18 April 2018
On the frontline of antibiotic resistance in South Sudan
In South Sudan, doctors have to prescribe antibiotics as a fail safe to actually save lives. Matthew Jones tells us why this makes it harder to apply rules to antibiotic use in the global South.
Education and training specific to antimicrobial resistance are poor at many medical schools, one challenge aims to help remedy this issue with patient case studies.
Have we truly considered if diagnostic testing would be a welcome addition to routine prescribing? How receptive are the public to adopting point-of-care diagnostics?
26 March 2018
Collaboration funding for UK researchers to go to India
A scheme closing 6 April 2018 will support the travel and subsistence costs of UK researchers wishing to visit India to build long-term research collaborations in antimicrobial resistance.
13 March 2018
Our team’s journey with the Longitude Prize
One competing team tells their story of finding and working with the Longitude Prize and what opportunities this has given them to move their diagnostics test forward.
27 February 2018
They want to live too: A story from Infectious Futures
From our collection of post-antibiotic science fiction stories, a young girl, Yuki, is given hope of enjoying her life vicariously through old videos of a girl riding a red bicycle. Her grandma, however, has a secret to reveal to her about those videos from before severe antibiotic resistance was pandemic.
17 February 2018
Droolie: Detecting sepsis in babies and mothers
Amrita Sukrity discusses Spotsense's test for sepsis in babies, the barriers to behaviour change and their team’s need for various collaborators, including physicians and biotechnologists.