Title:

The Wellcome Trust Doctoral Training Centre in Antimicrobials and Antimicrobial Resistance

Project Overview:

The emergence, spread and persistence of multi-antibiotic resistant bacteria is considered by the World Health Organisation to be one of the greatest global threats to human health. Consequently there is an urgent need to improve understanding of antimicrobial resistance and to discover new strategies for preventing and treating infections. This requires a thorough understanding of the basic molecular and chemical biology of bacterial pathogens, and the evolution, impact and spread of resistance.

The Wellcome Trust Doctoral Training Centre in Antimicrobials and Antimicrobial Resistance is designed to train the next generation of multidisciplinary research scientists. The Wellcome Trust, University of Nottingham and the University of Birmingham have developed a 4 year PhD training programme, with the first cohort commencing in October 2016.