Discussion Panel on "Novel Perspectives on How to Combat Antimicrobial Resistance"

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the emergence of bacterial strains that survive antibiotic treatments, is a major global public health concern, causing more than 1.2 million deaths each year and threatening a return to a pre-antibiotic era. Tackling AMR is a multi-faceted problem that involves actions and interventions from the understanding of AMR mechanisms to the development of new antibiotics and diagnostic tests. A panel of AMR specialists will discuss the problem and the action that is needed to slow down this 'silent epidemic'.

Discussion panel members:

• Professor Achilles Kapanidis, Professor of Biological Physics, University of Oxford (CHAIR)
• Professor Timothy Walsh OBE, Director of Biology, Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Research
• Professor Hermine Mkrtchyan, Director of the Centre for Innovation in Genomics and Microbiome Sciences, University of West London
• Professor William Gaze, Professor of Microbiology, University of Exeter
• Professor Nicole Stoesser, Professor in Infectious Diseases, University of Oxford and Consultant Clinician at John Radcliffe Hospital
• Dr Michael Dawson, Oxford Drug Design

There will be a drinks reception following the talk to which everyone is welcome.