Big challenges from antibiotic resistant bacteria

- Did you know that resistant bacteria kill at least 25,000 people in the EU every year?
- Did you know that resistant bacteria can be transferred from animals to humans through food?

The Swedish Research and Innovation funders invite you to a press briefing and breakfast at European Science Open Forum, ESOF 2012 in Dublin.

Antibiotic resistant bacteria are increasing and spreading at an alarming speed. The bacterial evolution is overwhelming our antibiotic defense. More and more bacteria are becoming resistant to antibiotics resulting in fatal consequences for millions of people. We need common action and responsibility for the development of new effective antibiotics and to stop antibiotic misuse.

Welcome to a press briefing on antibiotic resistance and listen to the big challenges that our community is facing!

Speakers:

A world without antibiotics?
Professor Otto Cars, ReACT, www.reactgroup.org

A problem that affects both animals and humans
PhD student Ulrika Grönlund Andersson, The National Veterinary Institute, SVA
www.sva.se

What is being done at EU level?
Director General Richard Bergström, European Federation of Pharmaceutical Industries, EFPIA www.efpia.org

What are the solutions?
PhD Erik Chorell, Umeå University, www.umu.se     

Swedish innovation - preventing antibiotic resistance?
Christian Kinch, Bactiguard, www.bactiguard.com

Pathogen identification and antibiotic susceptibility testing in hours - not days
Jan Grawé, QLinea, www.qlinea.com

Moderated by:
MD, PhD Carl Johan Sundberg, Karolinska Institutet, www.ki.se

RSVP to Emilie von Essen, [email protected] or +46 733 50 31 61.

Open seminar: An open seminar with the same theme will be held at the Speakers' Platform in the exhibition hall at 12.15-1.15 p.m. on July 12th

http://www.forskning.se/antibioticresistance