Laura Piddock 💙
@LauraPiddock
Emeritus Microbiology Prof, Birmingham Uni, UK. Mother/daughter/sister/wife. #antibiotic, #AMR, #drug-resistance. Own views
Advancing global antibiotic research, development and access | Nature Medicine nature.com/articles/s4159…
🚨 This is Big! New GARDP research shows that people with multidrug-resistant infections in LMICs are not receiving the appropriate antibiotics because of large gaps in access. Improving access and developing new antibiotics must be a priority, 📖 Read the study 👇…
Disappointing results - an example of the challenge in developing good antibacterial vaccines.... Sanofi takes $250M hit after gamble on J&J E. coli vaccine ends in phase 3 failure fiercebiotech.com/biotech/sanofi…
📊 Inside AntibioticDB AntibioticDB holds data on 3,000+ antibacterial compounds—from traditional antibiotics to experimental therapies like phages and antivirulence agents🧬🦠📈🧪🔍 With new tools like wildcard search, chemical identifiers, and smarter filters, AntibioticDB is…
Call for individual research grants 2026📣 ESCMID offers research grants to conduct clinical studies, experimental animal studies, or a combination of approaches. For this year's call, the focus is on bacterial infections ⏰Apply by 10 Sept 💡Learn more: ow.ly/Zral50WaC7K
👏FDA accepts New Drug Application for zoliflodacin — an investigational first-in-class oral antibiotic for uncomplicated #gonorrhoea. 🌍 Developed in collaboration with @InnovivaSTx, it could become the first new oral antibiotic for gonorrhoea in over 30 years. 🔗 Read the…
🎓 Are you an early-career researcher in clinical microbiology or infectious diseases? GARDP is offering 5 grants to attend a top postgraduate course by @ecraid and @ESCMID. 📅 28–30 October 2025 📍 Athens, Greece 🌍 Priority for applicants from low- and middle-income countries…
Check out this new scheme for Class D b-lactamases. SAND: a comprehensive annotation of class D β-lactamases using structural alignment-based numbering | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/aa…
🎥 The #ACC2025 recording is now available! From resistance trends to PK/PD and clinical challenges, watch the full conference to catch key insights for researchers, clinicians, and AMR specialists. ▶️ Start watching: revive.gardp.org/antimicrobial-…
Inside the Tower of London you can find the Valasse Cross, created in the 11th century and supposedly own by Empress Matilda. It's on temporary loan and you can find it inside the Norman Chapel of St John. Read all about it here: lookup.london/valasse-cross-…
New online! The global resistance problem and the clinical antibacterial pipeline nature.com/articles/s4157…
Just off Fleet Street is the free museum and crypt of St Bride's with a treasure trove of objects! Read more here: lookup.london/st-brides-cryp…
Rapid tuberculosis diagnosis from respiratory or blood samples by a low cost, portable lab-in-tube assay | Science Translational Medicine science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Three million child deaths linked to drug resistance, study shows bbc.com/news/articles/…
🌍 Exciting news ! 🍄WHO releases its first-ever reports on tests and treatments for fungal infections! 1️⃣ Pipeline analysis on antifungal agents 2️⃣ Landscape analysis of in vitro diagnostics 🔗 Read more shorturl.at/JthQi @EC_HERA @gardp_amr @ErinDuffyJ @JoF_MDPI
Fungi can cause infections when people breathe them in or get them on their skin. Most fungi are harmless, but some can be life-threatening. More: bit.ly/42bAxc5
📣Just published: "Global Health Perspectives on Antibacterial Drug Discovery and the Preclinical Pipeline” in @NatureRevMicro ✍️Ursula Theuretzbacher @rp_jumde Alan Hennessy Jennifer Cohn @LauraPiddock 👉rdcu.be/efmcB
Our latest article ‘Global health perspectives on antibacterial drug discovery and the pre-clinical pipeline’ is out @NatureRevMicro ! Read only version accessible here rdcu.be/efmcB
Prof. Hanna Engelberg-Kulka @HebrewU passed away last night. Hanna was an extraordinary, original and brave microbiologist who discovered the first chromosomal #toxin-#antitoxin system in #Escherichia coli. Together with Prof. Gadi Glaser, she named the system #mazEF (which in…
Does anticancer therapy directly contribute to antimicrobial resistance? - The Lancet Microbe thelancet.com/journals/lanmi… 👏👏👏 @TmRawson
📣📣 Grand Challenge announced 👇🏻: Innovations for Gram-Negative Antibiotic Discovery gcgh.grandchallenges.org/challenge/inno…
Mark your calendars! 🗓️ #ACC2025 is just around the corner! Join us in February for discussions with leading experts in antimicrobial R&D. 4 & 5 February, 2025 Register today for free 👇 acc-conference.com With @BSAC