Will you help us fight a global threat to human health and protect the health of future generations?
Modern medicine relies on antibiotics and other antimicrobial drugs. We use them to treat everything from minor illnesses to life threatening bacterial infections, and to make all kinds of surgeries and treatments safer. However, the overuse and misuse of these precious drugs has led to the rise of drug-resistant “superbugs” which pose a great threat to human health. Without urgent action, some routine medical procedures and operations will become dangerous, many common infections will become untreatable, and millions of lives will be lost.
PhD Students
Thanks to gifts in Wills, the Medical Research Foundation is funding the UK’s only national PhD training programme in antimicrobial resistance, which is training the next generation of researchers to tackle this urgent global health challenge.
Led by Professor Matthew Avison from the University of Bristol, the multidisciplinary scheme brings together 30 PhD scientists from all sectors of science, medicine, engineering, and social science to lead the UK’s antimicrobial resistance research of the future.
Matthew hopes that it will create a group of leaders in research, policy, and other areas of public life, who understand antimicrobial resistance and can bring a collaborative ethos to wherever their career leads them. As he puts it: “We’re building this for the future.”
With a gift in your Will to the Medical Research Foundation, you can play a key role in providing the science that will protect the health of future generations. Please consider making this very special gift today.
