Future Pandemic Preparedness: No Time to Wait on AMR

'Future Pandemic Preparedness: No Time Wait on AMR', which took place on 16 March 2021, was the third in a series of online science and innovation dialogues organised by the UK Science & Innovation Network and the British Council focusing on science and research collaboration.

The third scientific dialogue focused on international science collaboration in the fight against Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR).

The keynote speaker, Professor Dame Sally Davies, UK Special Envoy on Antimicrobial Resistance, looked at the latest research, progress and challenges on AMR and what more needs to be done to enable policy interventions to prepare for this ‘silent’ pandemic.

Joining her for a debate were academics and researchers from across Europe:
• Prof Bojana Beović, University of Ljubljana; President of the Medical Chamber of Slovenia (Slovenia)
• Dr Agata Starosta, Principal Investigator, Head of Laboratory of Gene Expression, Department of Molecular Biology, Maria Curie-Skłodowska University (Poland)
• Assoc Prof Serap Suzuk Yildiz, Clinical Microbiologist, PhD, National AMR References Lab, Department of Microbiology References Lab and Biological Product, Ministry of Health – Turkey; Executive Board Member of Turkish Society of Microbiology (Turkey)
• Dr Tomáš Szemes, Department of Molecular Biology, Comenius University in Bratislava (Slovakia)