New health research making an impact

in Global Health and Infectious Diseases, Professor William Hope, Dame Sally Davies Chair of AMR Research, and Dr Ishwar Singh, Reader in Pharmacology and

Therapeutics spoke to the Times Higher Education recently about the exciting research led by Liverpool to tackle antimicrobial resistance (AMR). They discussed recent developments such as CAMO-Net, a new global research consortium to optimise antimicrobial use in humans; collaboration on new AMR projects with the Global Antibiotic Research and Development Partnership (GARDP); and innovations in antibiotics that could save millions of lives.

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VICE-CHANCELLOR PROFESSOR TIM JONES (BSC HONS CHEMISTRY 1985, PHD CHEMISTRY 1989) REFLECTS ON HIS TIME STUDYING AT LIVERPOOL AND OUTLINES AMBITIOUS PLANS FOR THE UNIVERSITY

“It’s a great honour to return to my alma mater as Vice-Chancellor. I still remember attending an open day here when I was deciding which university to go to in the ‘80s. We toured the campus and saw the sports field out at Wyncote and the Greenbank residences, where I ended up being a first year Chemistry student. I have such happy memories of that time so it’s special to return and be a part of this vibrant city once more.

Liverpool was then, and many would argue still is, the centre of excellence in surface science, not just in the UK, but internationally as well. We had world leaders in the chemistry department, and a nucleus of really strong academic staff in the surface science area. The head of department was Professor David King, who subsequently became Government Chief Scientist [from 2000 to 2007] and indeed, more recently, the Chancellor of the University of Liverpool. That community brought