Oppilotech Ltd

Effective treatment of bacterial infections is an essential component of modern medicine. To that end, antibiotics have played a central role in saving millions of lives. Antibiotic resistance - when bacteria change so that antibiotics no longer work, is growing at a dangerously high rate and poses one of the greatest public health threats of our time. Of...

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The proposed project aims to tackle two of the major hurdles in the fight against AMR, new drugs and new diagnostics. The new diagnostics will utilise cutting edge UK technology (Oxford Nanopore sequencing) to provide test results with unprecedented depth of information within 6 hours as opposed to the current technologies which routinely take 24-48 hours...

It is predicted that within the next 33 years, deaths attributable to antibiotic resistant bacteria will outnumber those caused by cancer. This problem is compounded by the lack of both the discovery and development of novel antimicrobial molecules. Of particular concern are the resistance levels exhibited by the Gram -ve bacterial species such as E.coli,...

The emergence of multi-drug resistant bacteria is now a major public health concern. Reports from the Wellcome Trust, World Health Organization and the Chief Medical Officer of the United Kingdom have highlighted the urgent need for the identification and development of new antibiotics, especially those with novel modes of action. Antibiotic resistance wi...