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Registered team EDPAL are actively looking for collaborators to submit an entry to the Longitude Prize.
30 Oct 2015
The gonorrhoea urgency
Since penicillin was first used in the 1940s, gonorrhoea bacteria have developed resistance to every antibiotic that has been used to treat them.
30 Oct 2015
Our week in India
We recently held 4 events in India, in Delhi, Bangalore, Hyderabad and Mumbai to encourage new teams and individuals to get involved.
23 Oct 2015
Latest Jim O’Neill report calls for new rapid diagnostics to stop unnecessary use of antibiotics
The latest report from the AMR Review proposes better use of rapid diagnostic tests to curb resistance to antimicrobials.
16 Oct 2015
What does the post-antibiotic era actually mean?
Prof. Adam Roberts is Senior Lecturer in Molecular Microbiology at the UCL Eastman Dental Institute, and Advisor to the Longitude Prize.
Joanne Bosanquet is Deputy Chief Nurse for Public Health England.
Longitude Prize launches in Wales, having now visited all the Home Countries.
18 Sep 2015
Longitude Prize goes to Harvard Business School
We held our first major event in the United States at Harvard Business School, bringing together local leading minds working on antimicrobial resistance.
15 Sep 2015
Results from our first submission round
In May, eight teams from the UK, the US and Finland put forward the first ideas to compete for the Longitude Prize.
The rate of drug resistance for E.Coli in blood in China is three times that in the UK. Could an innovative diagnostic solution to help stop drug resistance come from China?
WISE, an organisation working to get more women in STEM, launched the People Like Me campaign at the British Science Festival to help girls identify with women working in STEM fields.