£3.9 Million funding to tackle drug resistant infections

The University secured a £3.9million grant funded by the Antimicrobial Resistance Cross Council Initiative, which is a collaboration of all seven UK research councils, to carry out this work. 

Experts from the Faculties of Medicine and Health, Engineering, and Biological Sciences are collaborating on the project, which will start in December 2016.

This programme, led by Prof. Christoph Wälti, will result in a portable device which can be used in GP surgeries or at the bedside. It will contain complex sensors to diagnose within 10 minutes whether a patient is suffering from a disease caused by a virus or by bacteria. Currently, similar tests can take many hours.

The investigators in the project are: Professor Paul Millner, Professor Michael McPherson, Dr Lars Jeuken, Dr Darren Tomlinson (Biological Sciences), Professor Mark Wilcox, Dr Jonathan Sandoe, Dr Michael Messenger, Dr Andrew Kirby, Professor Robert West, Dr Bethany Shinkins (Medicine and Health), Professor Nikil Kapur, Professor Christoph Wälti (Engineering).