Professor Tim Leighton, Chair and Founder of the University’s Network for Anti-Microbial Resistance and Infection Prevention (NAMRIP), will today (2 July) join more than 300 business leaders, entrepreneurs, world-leading researchers, parliamentarians and policymakers at The Research Councils UK (RCUK) first Research, Innovate, Grow conference.
The event, in Westminster, demonstrates the Research Councils’ ambition to ensure the UK remains the best place in the world to do research, innovate and grow business. It highlights some of the ground-breaking and innovative research funded by the seven Research Councils through interactive exhibits, with the researchers involved talking about their work with attendees.
NAMRIP is an interdisciplinary approach to research and collaboration, where engineers, physical and biological scientists and health science clinicians, along with researchers from Social Sciences and Business and Law, work together to combat increasing antibiotic resistance across healthcare and food industries.
Professor Tim Leighton said:
“By 2050 drug resistant diseases could be killing more people than cancer, an extra 10 million deaths per year. They would also cause a loss to the global output of 100 trillion dollars – that is equivalent to a sum greater than the current global economy.
“Catastrophes in healthcare and food production will not be faced off by researchers who work in their isolated comfort zones, always suggesting their small area of expertise as the solution rather than working across disciplines to find the best solution. It is hard, but necessary, to work across the barriers between disciplines. The RCUK-funded NAMRIP aims to break down these barriers so that we can change the way people think about the problem and find the solutions.”
Read the full press release on the Engineering and Environment website.