GRIDD researcher combatting antibiotic resistance

A Griffith University researcher says we urgently need to safeguard current antibiotics and discover new ones to avoid what has been described recently by England’s Chief Medical Officer, Prof Dame Sally Davies as a “post-antibiotic apocalypse.”
Griffith Institute for Drug Discovery (GRIDD) scientist Dr Róisín McMahon has just been awarded a $150,000 Ramaciotti Health Investment Grant to help address this global issue.
The grant will allow the early career scientist to work on her project ‘Overcoming the resistance: new antimicrobials that disarm, rather than destroy bacteria’ with the aim of a clinical application within five years.
“If antibiotics lose their effectiveness, we will face a future where simple infections kill, and where routine medical procedures like hip replacements and Caesarean sections will be riskier to perform,” she said.
“This funding supports research to identify new antimicrobial compounds effective against disease-causing bacteria.”
“My research seeks to disarm rather than kill bacteria. I hope to do this

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