Tag: Longitude Prize

1st August 2016 Bangalore, India

Arika Ahluwalia

Arika Ahluwalia

Science and Innovation Administrator

AMR: New seed funding to help teams enter the Longitude Prize

On 25 July I attended a workshop and ideathon on the Longitude Prize and Discovery Awards at Centre for Cellular and Molecular Platforms(C-CAMP), Bangalore . The Discovery Awards are a new seed fund to help teams progress ideas for a transformative diagnostic test that will help combat Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) by significantly reducing inappropriate use […]

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20th May 2016 Houston, USA

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by Lauren George

Science and Innovation Officer

FUNDING: Longitude Prize Discovery Awards

Longitude Prize is a five-year challenge with a £10 million prize fund. Launched in November 2014 it aims to conserve antibiotics for future generations, revolutionising global healthcare. It commemorates the 300th anniversary of the Longitude Act of 1714, the first British challenge prize, to determine longitude at sea. The prize is looking for a quick and […]

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28th December 2015 New Delhi, India

by Himangi Bhardwaj

Senior Health Adviser

UK and India to work together to fight superbugs

Antimicrobials, our lifeline to modern medicine, are today under grave threat, with antimicrobial resistance sitting alongside climate change and terrorism on the Global Risk Register, as a global public health priority for the UK. Globally, by 2050, drug-resistant infections could cause 10 million extra deaths a year and have a cumulative cost of US$ 100 […]

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30th July 2014 Mumbai, India

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by Sheryl Anchan

Science and Innovation Adviser

The uninvited bacteria!

In 1928 the world celebrated the invention of penicillin by the British scientist Alexander Fleming and rightly so, as it brought about a revolution in the field of medicine and enabled treating life-threatening diseases like pneumococcal pneumonia, meningitis, etc. Unfortunately today, with growing strains of bacteria that have developed resistance to antibiotics, the world once […]

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11th July 2014 Toronto, Canada

Antimicrobial resistance: The greatest issue of our time?

The 2014 Longitude Prize, a £10 million fund dedicated to solving one of the greatest challenges of our time, was recently assigned to antibiotics. Why is this issue so significant, and what is the UK doing about it? Antibiotics are one of the finest achievements of modern medicine, killing the bacteria and other microorganisms that […]

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