• Question: Which diseases your antibiotics will be able to cure ?

    Asked by P-Brain to Ceri, Marikka, Matt, Rob, Sally on 11 Nov 2014.
    • Photo: Ceri Dare

      Ceri Dare answered on 11 Nov 2014:

      Well, I don’t invent new antibiotics, I make existing antibiotics work better, and stop people getting ill in the first place. So with my work, hopefully the many illnesses which are already treated by antibiotics can carry on being treated.

      This is a good article about all the things antibiotics treat now, and what would happen if the antibiotics we already have stopped working: https://medium.com/@fernnews/imagining-the-post-antibiotics-future-892b57499e77

    • Photo: Sally Cutler

      Sally Cutler answered on 11 Nov 2014:

      Afraid I cannot lay claim to have invented any antibiotics of my own, but have evaluated various ones against a range of pathogenic microbes to guide clinical management.

    • Photo: Marikka Beecroft

      Marikka Beecroft answered on 12 Nov 2014:

      I am not developing antibiotics, a chemist who is in the same group as me is, but we are hoping it’ll help with what is called gram-negative bacteria. These are bacteria which has an inner and outer membrane with a cell wall wedge in between. They are tricky to treat because they have so many barriers to their environment it’s difficult to get anything into them to work.

    • Photo: Robert Hampson

      Robert Hampson answered on 13 Nov 2014:

      My chemicals are only targeted at MRSA. They shouldn’t affect any other bacteria or any other diseases. If they did, it would be a surprise to me!

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