17 million research award goes to drug-resistant bacteria studies

BYDaniel Cooper @danielwcooper1 hours ago

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Antibiotic resistant bacteria is one of the biggest threats to public health of our time, because we are heading for a world where common maladies can overcome any drug that we throw at them. That's why it is chosen as the target for this year longitude price. As the original, granted in 1765 to a carpenter who built the first chronometer, a bounty 10 million pounds ($ 17 million) will be offered to anyone who believes that they can come up with a solution to the problem.

The price is partly funded by the British Government and innovation charity Nesta, and is open to members of the general public as well as companies and research institutes. According to the price the managers, the challenge will center around being able to build a cheap, accurate and rapid diagnosis system for bacterial infections. In this way, medical professionals around the world will be able use of specific antibiotics, but only in cases where they actually use, instead of firing drugs blindly in our body would be. The challenge is carried out in the next five years, with the specific criteria for a successful test are worked out in the summer. Participants will then be able impose their ideas, with the first review takes place in the fall of 2015.

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Via: BBC News

Source: Nesta, Longitude price

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