The Longitude Prize and the AMR Centre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine invite you to celebrate the third anniversary of the five year prize at our ‘Superbugs and the Role of Diagnostics’ event on Tuesday 14th November, duringWorld Antibiotic Awareness Week.
Join us for a night with Dr. Zoe Williams, resident doctor on This Morning and a presenter on BBC Two’s Trust Me I’m a Doctor, to explore the lives of those affected by superbugs, the clinicians trying to help them and the teams coming up with solutions to reduce antibiotic resistance.
This event includes:
- Meet the teams – Competing Longitude Prize test inventors show off their technologies with Till Bachmann, Longitude Prize panel member
- People affected by superbugs from the Chronic Urinary Tract Infection Campaign
- Clinical perspectives from the NHSÂ – Dr. Susannah Woodd, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Antibiotic alternatives – Dr Sam Willcocks, AMR Centre, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
- Perspectives from India – BIRAC, a public sector enterprise building capacity of biotech in India, discusses what they are doing in to help solve the problem
- Battle the bugs – Games based on antibiotic resistance challenges – Winchester Science Centre and University of Southampton
- Be a Citizen Scientist! – Learn to swab for new antibiotics with the Swab and Send programme from the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine
- Antibiotic Guardian features their public campaign for antibiotic stewardship and school resources
