STOP PRESS Living in the South of England? Why not come and hear Dr John Broughall talk about antibiotic resistance and ANTRUK?

Alison Staples Uncategorised Leave a Comment

Come and hear John speak at the following venues and dates about antibiotic resistance.

Organisation                 Venue                Date                  Location

Café Scientific              Basingstoke     23rd May           http://www.meetup.com/CafeSci-Basingstoke/events/230962325/

Contact Bob Clifford

Skeptics in the Pub      Reading            20th June          RYND    7:30pm start

Contact Mike Agg

Café Scientific              Southampton   11th July           http://www.diverse.ip3.co.uk/scicaf.htm

Contact Nigel Cook

Skeptics in the Pub      Bournemouth  13th July           http://www.meetup.com/Bournemouth-Skeptics-in-the-Pub/

Contact Simon Whitlock

Café Scientific              Portsmouth       8th September            http://portsmouth.skepticsinthepub.org/Default.aspx/188/Information-for-Speakers

Contact Kelly Williams

If you would like to attend there’s no need to book, just turn up on the night, there’s normally a small entrance fee.

John Broughall, (pronounced as in a pub “brawl”), will discuss the issue of why the antibiotic development pipeline has dried up: what are the problems and why the pharmaceutical industry is not investing in research and development to produce new compounds. Multi-drug antibiotic resistance has been recognised as a global threat to health yet the solutions to this issue are not obvious, the current commercially driven pharmaceutical process does not appear fit for purpose. The charity that John is representing tonight, Antibiotic Research UK, is proposing a new approach to overcome this impasse, he will discuss their plans and the science behind their proposal.
John is a PhD microbiologist who has spent most of his career in the diagnostics industry including the development of rapid and automated methods for use in microbiology laboratories. Latterly he has worked in the medical departments of two major pharmaceutical companies focusing on both antibiotics and also new oncology compounds. He now runs his own consultancy business but is also a volunteer for Antibiotic Research UK. John is keen to see as many people involved in helping and donating to ANTRUK as possible to help the charity tackle the impending health crisis of antibiotic resistance.

Contact John for more information – John.Broughall@ntlworld.com