A research project involving antimicrobial resistance run through the University of Newcastle has been included amongst five groups to receive funding as part of a tertiary Impact program.
The initiative run by NUW, an alliance between the Universities of Newcastle, Wollongong and New South Wales, selects research projects every year to receive financial contributions that will aid in resolving problems faced by the broader community. This years recipients have received almost a total of $540 000 in funding to promote their studies.
Newcastle's own Antimicrobial Research Task force run by Professor Peter Lewis was included amongst the successful recipients.
"More and more infections are becoming resistant to antibiotics to the point where there are some infections that we now no longer have any antibiotics available that work against them. We've run out and we need more." says Professor Lewis.
"The funding enabled us to run a workshop where we had researchers from the three universities, and external experts from around the world and around Australia, and we used that opportunity to really try and identify the most common areas where we as a group felt we could collaborate in a productive and mutual way to solve this problem."
