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Antibiotic Resistance - LEX has the Tec to help:
Antibiotic Resistance - LEX has the Tec to help:This will be the next big problem and LEX has the Tec to help:
Oxford University is opening a new research institute dedicated to tackling resistance to antibiotics.
The university says this is one of the the biggest rising threats to global health, already causing 1.5 million deaths per year worldwide.
The institute will be funded by £100m donated by the Ineos chemical company.
Vice chancellor Louise Richardson said the Covid pandemic had shown the "high cost of ignoring something that is likely to head our way".
'Growing menace'
There will be 50 researchers working in the new Ineos Oxford Institute for Antimicrobial Resistance, addressing the "over-use and mis-use" of antibiotics, which the university warned could cause 10 million excess deaths per year by 2050.
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Routine operations and "taken-for-granted treatments" would become much riskier without effective antibiotics, said the university.
"The growing menace of bacterial resistance to antibiotics is one of the most under-reported issues of our time," says David Sweetnam, a surgeon advising the new institute.