About Modernising Medical Microbiology

COVID-19: accelerating testing with robotics

Kevin Chau, a PhD student on our National PhD Training Programme in AMR Research, has contributed to the pandemic response as part of the Modernising Medical Microbiology team at John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford. In a new blog post, he describes the experience.

Monitoring Populations at risk from Coronavirus

Emma Pritchard, Statistician and PhD student shares her work with ONS on Coronavirus statistics.

Modernising Medical Microbiology

Modernising Medical Microbiology is a research group aiming to transform how we analyse and treat infections, to improve patient care.

We aim to:

1) Modernise the way we analyse infections, bringing cutting-edge scientific techniques to clinical care.

2) Transform they way we study the treatment of patients with infections, using large databases of hospital electronic information, to identify trends in how infections are behaving, and ways patient care can be improved.

3) Use techniques such as DNA analysis of bacteria and viruses to better understand how infections spread, how to treat them, and how to prevent them in the future.

4) Study how bacteria become resistant to antibiotics, and more difficult to treat, and how to prevent this.

and how to prevent this.

Modernising Medical Microbiology studies a number of infections, in particular, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (TB), - the Enterobacterales family (Escherichia coli, Klebsiella species and others) and Clostridium difficile (C. diff).

You can learn more about these bacteria here