AMR researchers by focus area

Origins

Antibiotic consumption and misuse

  • Professor Alison Holmes: AMR epidemiology, public health, precision medicine, emerging technologies, antibiotic optimisation
  • Professor Darius Armstrong-James: Usage in respiratory fungal disease and leading antifungal stewardship initiatives  
  • Dr Gabriel Birgand: AMS in nursing homes
  • Will Bolton: AI-based clinical decision support for antibiotic optimisation and stewardship
  • Stewardship, healthcare-associated infections, and hospital epidemiological services
  • Dr Bernard Hernandez: Point of care decision support systems
  • Dr Julie McDonald: Gut microbiota and antimicrobial resistance
  • Dr Tim Rawson: Precision prescribing
  • Dr Jesus Rodriguez Manzano: Molecular diagnosis of infectious diseases and AMR
  • Dr Anand Shah: Antifungal stewardship and AMR in chronic lung disease
  • : AMR in trypanosomes driven by the agricultural sector and livestock farming (incl. counterfeit drugs, outdated treatments, indiscriminate use); SMART Livestock project, which collects critical data on drug use, resistance hotspots, and spread of AMR
  • Mr Richard Wilson: Technologies to improve antimicrobial prescribing
  • Dr Nina Zhu: Assessing the impact of health interventions

Environmental drivers

  • Professor Mat Fisher: Biological and environmental factors driving emerging fungal diseases across human, wildlife and plant species
  • Dr Johanna Rhodes: One Health approach to balance and optimise the health of humans, animals and the environment
  • Professor Darius Armstrong-James: Fungal population genomics and antimicrobial resistance
  • Dr Anand Shah: Novel diagnostics to better understand resistance evolution and acquisition
  • Dr Jesus Rodriguez Manzano: Diagnostic solutions, appropriate for low-resource and settings, to support the extraction, detection and characterisation of fungal infections
  • Professor Pantelis Georgiou: Diagnostic solutions, appropriate for low-resource and settings, to support the extraction, detection and characterisation of fungal infections
  • Professor Marc Dionne: Do insect hosts drive AMR acquisition in broad host-range pathogens?

Resistance to host defences

Mutations and genetic changes

Transmission

Patient-patient transmission

Environmental fates of antibiotics

Horizonal gene transfer

  • Professor José Penadés: Molecular basis of bacterial virulence with a major focus on the mechanisms underlying the transfer of different mobile genetic elements (MGEs) 
  • Dr Tiago Costa: Molecular machines driving antimicrobial resistance proliferation
  • Dr Yu Wan: Molecular basis, spread, and evolution of mobile genetic elements
  • Dr Luke Allsopp: Understanding acquisition and impact of HRT on the evolution of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and its virulence factors

Tracking spread

  • Dr Nim Arinaminpathy: Transmission and control of TB.
  • Professor Darius Armstrong-James: Fungal populations genomics.
  • Dr Gabriel Birgand: Modeling patient pathways and monitoring sewage to monitor spread of MDR in the healthcare network.
  • Dr Nick Croucher:  Variations and multi-strain bacterial populations.
  • Dr Gina Cuomo-Dannenburg: Spread of anti-malarial resistance.
  • Professor Mat Fisher and Spread of resistant Aspergillus fumigatus.
  • Dr Maria Getino: Epigenomics to track spread, risk factors, and transmission between humans and animals.
  • Dr Elita Jauneikaite: Genomic epidemiology of global spread of antimicrobial resistant bacterial pathogens.
  • Dr Jose Jimenez Zarco: Population dynamics in microbiomes and AMR transmission.
  • Dr Lucy Okell: International spread of drug-resistant Plasmodium falciparium malaria.
  • Healthcare epidemiology, healthcare-associated infections; antibiotic and antiseptic resistance; role of contaminated surfaces in transmission; MRSA, C. difficile and multidrug-resistant Gram-negatives (especially CPE).
  • Dr Johanna Rhodes: Transmission events and surveillance of fungal diseases.
  • Professor James Seddon: Tracking the burden of multidrug-resistant TB.
  • Dr Matthew Siggins: Transmission dynamics of infectious disease.
  • Professor Shiranee Sriskandan: Transmission of respiratory pathogens in schools and households.
  • : SMART Livestock project, which collects critical data on drug use, resistance hotspots, and spread of AMR and enhances veterinary capacities to monitor and mitigate the spread of drug-resistant pathogens in livestock.
  • Dr Robert Verity: Malaria molecular surveillance.

 

Infection

Pathogen biology

Host genetics

  • Professor Anthony Gordon: Developing host RNA-based diagnostics for sepsis
  • Professor Mike LevinDeveloping host RNA-based diagnostics
  • Dr Vanessa Sancho-Shimizu: Understanding the genetic basis of life-threatening infections
  • Dr Anand Shah: Understanding host susceptibility to Aspergillus fumigatus
  • Professor Armstrong-James: Clinical host-pathogen interactions, focussing on the interplay between pathogen genomics and diversity and host systems immunology in the context of underlying clinical disease states
  • Professor Peter Openshaw: Immune response to pathogens
  • Dr Ivana Pennisi: Developing host RNA-based point of care diagnostics
  • Professor James Seddon: Using host omics for diagnosis of TB in children and prediction of future TB disease progression, understanding host genetic susceptibility to TB meningitis
  • Dr Avinash Shenoy: Inflammasome and caspases in host-defence against bacterial pathogens
  • Professor Marc Dionne: How does host genetics change the antimicrobial effects of immune defences?
  • Dr Matthew Child: Understanding interactions of eukaryotic pathogens with their chosen host-cell using drug-like small molecules and functional genomics

Patient Management

  • Dr Aula Abbara: AMR in settings of armed conflict including lived experience. Qualitative research in AMR and antimicrobial stewardship.
  • Professor Armstrong-James: Clinical academic with a focus on clinical and diagnostic support for patients with fungal disease and AI-driven multiomic diagnostics
  • Professor Graham Cooke: Clinical academic with a focus on antibiotic use and diagnostics
  • Professor Francis Drobniewski: Clinical academic with a focus on treatment and public health aspects of respiratory infections, especially TB and mycobacterial diseases, COVID-19, diagnostics, and vaccine delivery and hesitancy
  • Clinical management
  • Professor Anthony Gordon: Clinical academic with a focus on personalised medicine and clinical trials in sepsis
  • Professor Alison Holmes: Public health, precision medicine, technologies, and antibiotic optimisation 
  • Professor Mike Levin: Diagnosis and treatment of childhood infections 
  • Professor Danny O'Hare: Diagnostics for patient management
  • Professor James Seddon: Diagnosis and treatment of childhood TB, including MDR-TB
  • Dr Anika Singanayagam: Clinical academic with a focus on transmission, testing, vaccines, antivirals
  • Dr Anand Shah: Clinical academic with a focus on treatment of lung fungal infections and patient and healthcare perception of AMR in chronic respiratory disease 
  • Richard Wilson: Development and integration of novel technologies and interventions to improve antimicrobial prescribing.
  • Dr Nina Zhu: Addressing inequality in AMR burden and infection care quality through data
Solutions

AI, machine learning, and AMR

Behaviour Change

  • Dr Kate Grailey | Understanding and addressing behaviours contributing to the antimicrobial resistance crisis

Diagnostics

Drug development

Education

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Infection control and national programmes

  • Professor Alison Holmes:  Local, national and international practice
  • Dr Aula Abbara: Systems strengthening to tackle AMR in low resource/ conflict settings
  • Dr Nim Arinaminpathy: National TB control programmes 
  • Professor Darius Armstrong-James: Anti-fungal stewardship services and national stewardship roles (ESPAU, NHSE adviser)
  • Professor Paul Aylin: Use of data in the management and monitoring of healthcare in the UK and internationally
  • Dr Gabriel Birgand: Knowledge and perception of AMR among  healthcare professionals
  • Dr Sara Boyd: Use of resistance surveillance, diagnostics, stewardship, and pharmacokinetics-pharmacodynamics (PK-PD) to improve antimicrobial therapies for patients
  • Professor Graham Cooke: Policy on antibiotic use 
  • Dr Nick Croucher: Mathematical modelling of AMR, including the impact of vaccination 
  • Dr Frances Davies:  Optimising the care of patients with multi-drug resistant organisms; translating research findings back to patient care
  • Professor Francis Drobniewski: TB/HIV programme development and implementation locally, nationally and internationally
  • Research into antimicrobial surfaces
  • Dr Johanna Rhodes:  Infection control measures against C. auris in hospital
  • : Collaborative workshops with farmers, veterinarians, and policymakers to foster sustainable practices, addressing the root causes of AMR and ensuring long-term livestock health and productivity
  • Professor Chris Toumazou: DNA Electronics (DNAe): point of care sequencing for AMR in Sepsis, using semi-conductors ()

Policy and stewardship

Precision prescribing and antibiotic decision making

Surveillance and outbreak analysis

  • Professor Paul Aylin: Applied data linkage, syndromic surveillance and modelling
  • Professor Darius Armstrong-James: Fungal population genomics
  • Dr Gabriel Birgand: National surveillance system (France) for AMR, IPC and AMS in the community and nursing homes
  • Dr Sara Boyd: Resistance surveillance
  • Dr Nick Croucher: Mathematical modelling of AMR, including the impact of vaccination 
  • Dr Frances Davies:  Developing and using new methods to track the spread of resistance
  • Professor Francis Drobniewski: Understanding outbreaks and global spread of TB and mycobacterial diseases
  • Professor Mat Fisher: Emerging pathogenic fungi
  • Dr Elita Jauneikaite: Genomic investigations of outbreaks and global spread of bacterial pathogens
  • Healthcare-associated infection surveillance
  • Dr Johanna Rhodes: Fungal global surveillance network using genomics; real-time analysis of outbreaks
  • Dr Anand Shah: Global spread of antifungal resistance and global AMR epidemiology and surveillance in chronic lung disease
  • : SMART Livestock project: molecular diagnostics and geospatial mapping to track the spread of drug-resistant Trypanosoma species in livestock; modelling of resistance dynamics and prediction of future spread via real-time resistance hotspot maps and tsetse vector spatial distribution data
  • Dr Yu Wan: Genomic surveillance, outbreak investigation, and evolution analysis of bacterial pathogens

Surfaces and materials

Vaccine design and development

AMR researchers by name with associated focus area

A-Z list
  • Dr Aula Abbara | Patient management (Infection); Infection control and national programmes (Solutions)
  • Dr Luke Allsopp | Resistance to host defences (Origins); Mutations and genetic changes (Origins); Horizontal gene transfer (Transmission); Pathogen biology (Infection)
  • Dr David Antcliffe Diagnostics (Solutions)
  • Professor Rossella Arcucci | AI and machine learning (Solutions)
  • Professor Nim Arinaminpathy | Tracking spread (Transmission); Infection control and national programmes (Solutions)
  • Professor Darius Armstrong-James | Antibiotic consumption and misuse (Origins); Environmental drivers (Origins); Resistance to host defences (Origins); Mutations and genetic changes (Origins); Tracking spread (Transmission); Patient management (Infection); Host genetics (Infection); Pathogen biology (Infection); Precision prescribing (Solutions); AI and machine learning (Solutions); Surveillance and outbreak analysis (Solutions); Diagnostics (Solutions); New treatments and vaccines (Solutions); Infection control and national programmes (Solutions); Policy and stewardship (Solutions); Education (Solutions)
  • Professor Paul Aylin | Surveillance and outbreak analysis (Solutions); Infection control and national programmes (Solutions)
  • Dr Pedro Ballester | AI and machine learning (Solutions)
  • Professor Mauricio Barahona | Patient-Patient (Transmission); AI and machine learning (Solutions)
  • Dr Anna Barnard | New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
  • Dr Leon Barron | Environmental fates of antibiotics (Transmission)
  • Dr Gabriel Birgand | Antibiotic consumption and misuse (Origins); Patient-Patient (Transmission); Tracking spread (Transmission); AI and machine learning (Solutions); Surveillance and outbreak analysis (Solutions); Infection control and national programmes (Solutions)
  • Dr Will Bolton | Antibiotic consumption and misuse (Origins); Precision prescribing (Solutions); AI and machine learning (Solutions); Policy and stewardship (Solutions)
  • Dr Sara Boyd | Surveillance and outbreak analysis (Solutions); Infection control and national programmes (Solutions)
  • Professor Joao Cabral | Antimicrobial surfaces (Solutions)
  • Professor Tony Cass | Diagnostics (Solutions)
  • Dr Matthew Child | Pathogen biology (Infection); Host genetics (Infection)
  • Dr Leonid Chindelevitch | AI and machine learning (Solutions); Diagnostics (Solutions)
  • Dr Thomas Clarke | Resistance to host defences (Origins)
  • Dr Abigail Clements | Resistance to host defences (Origins); Pathogen biology (Infection)
  • Professor Graham Cooke | Patient management (Infection); Pathogen biology (Infection); Precision prescribing (Solutions); Diagnostics (Solutions); Infection control and national programmes (Solutions); Policy and stewardship (Solutions)
  • Dr Tiago Costa | Horizontal gene transfer (Transmission); Pathogen biology (Infection)
  • Dr Nick Croucher | Tracking spread (Transmission); AI and machine learning (Solutions); Surveillance and outbreak analysis (Solutions); Infection control and national programmes (Solutions)
  • Professor Aubrey Cunnington | Vectors (Transmission); Diagnostics (Solutions)
  • Gina Cuomo-Dannenburg | Tracking spread (Transmission)
  • Dr Frances Davies | Surveillance and outbreak analysis (Solutions); New treatments and vaccines (Solutions); Infection control and national programmes (Solutions)
  • Professor Marc Dionne | Environmental drivers (Origins); Resistance to host defences (Origins); Mutations and genetic changes (Origins); Host genetics (Infection); Pathogen biology (Infection)
  • Professor Francis Drobniewski | Mutations and genetic changes (Origins); Patient-Patient (Transmission); Patient management (Infection); Pathogen biology (Infection); Surveillance and outbreak analysis (Solutions); Diagnostics (Solutions); Infection control and national programmes (Solutions); Policy and stewardship (Solutions); Education (Solutions)
  • Dr Andy Edwards | Resistance to host defences (Origins); Pathogen biology (Infection); New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
  • Melanie Egli | Environmental fates of antibiotics (Transmission)
  • Professor Tom Ellis | Diagnostics (Solutions)
  • Dr Ana Eulalio | Resistance to host defences (Origins); Pathogen biology (Infection)
  • Professor Aldo Faisal | AI and machine learning (Solutions)
  • Professor Matthew Fisher | Environmental drivers (Origins); Tracking spread (Transmission); Surveillance and outbreak analysis (Solutions)
  • Professor Gad Frankel | Mutations and genetic changes (Origins); Pathogen biology (Infection)
  • Professor Pantelis Georgiou | Vectors (Transmission); Diagnostics (Solutions)
  • Dr Maria Getino | Mutations and genetic changes (Origins); Tracking spread (Transmission)
  • Antibiotic consumption and misuse (Origins); Patient management (Infection); Policy and stewardship (Solutions); New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
  • Professor Anthony Gordon | Patient management (Infection); Host genetics (Infection); Precision prescribing (Solutions); AI and machine learning (Solutions); Diagnostics (Solutions); New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
  • Dr Kate Grailey | Behaviour change (Solutions)
  • Professor Angelika Grundling | Pathogen biology (Infection)
  • Dr Shea Hamilton | Diagnostics (Solutions)
  • Dr Jethro Herberg | Diagnostics (Solutions)
  • Dr Bernard Hernandez | Antibiotic consumption and misuse (Origins); Precision prescribing (Solutions); AI and machine learning (Solutions)
  • Professor Sandrine Heutz | Antimicrobial surfaces (Solutions)
  • Professor Alison Holmes | Antibiotic consumption and misuse (Origins); Patient management (Infection); Precision prescribing (Solutions); AI and machine learning (Solutions); Diagnostics (Solutions); Infection control and national programmes (Solutions); Policy and stewardship (Solutions)
  • Dr Elita Jauneikaite | Mutations and genetic changes (Origins); Patient-Patient (Transmission); Tracking spread (Transmission); AI and machine learning (Solutions); Surveillance and outbreak analysis (Solutions)
  • Dr Jose Jimenez Zarco | Horizontal gene transfer (Transmission); Tracking spread (Transmission)
  • Professor Julian Jones | Antimicrobial surfaces (Solutions)
  • Dr Myrsini Kaforou | Diagnostics (Solutions)
  • Dr Catherine Kibirige | Diagnostics (Solutions)
  • Dr Gerald Larrouy-Maumus | Diagnostics (Solutions); Antimicrobial surfaces (Solutions)
  • Professor Mike Levin | Patient management (Infection); Host genetics (Infection); Diagnostics (Solutions)
  • Dr Harry Low | Resistance to host defences (Origins)
  • Dr Kenny Malpartida Cardenas | Vectors (Transmission)
  • Dr Alex McCarthy | Resistance to host defences (Origins); Pathogen biology (Infection); New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
  • Dr Julie McDonald | Antibiotic consumption and misuse (Origins); New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
  • Dr Damien Ming | Precision prescribing (Solutions); AI and machine learning (Solutions)
  • Dr Nick Moser | Vectors (Transmission); Diagnostics (Solutions)
  • Professor Danny O'Hare | Patient management (Infection); Precision prescribing (Solutions); Diagnostics (Solutions)
  • Dr Lucy Okell | Tracking spread (Transmission)
  • Professor Peter Openshaw | Host genetics (Infection); New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
  • Professor Faith Osier | New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
  • | Tracking spread (Transmission); Surveillance and outbreak analysis (Solutions); Antimicrobial surfaces (Solutions); Infection control and national programmes (Solutions)
  • Professor José R Penadés: Horizontal gene transfer (Transmission)
  • | Host genetics (Infection); Diagnostics (Solutions)
  • | Pathogen biology (Infection); New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
  • Professor Alexandra Porter | New treatments and vaccines (Solutions); Antimicrobial surfaces (Solutions)
  • Dr Tim Rawson | Antibiotic consumption and misuse (Origins); Precision prescribing (Solutions); Diagnostics (Solutions)
  • Dr Johanna Rhodes | Environmental drivers (Origins); Tracking spread (Transmission); Surveillance and outbreak analysis (Solutions); Infection control and national programmes (Solutions)
  • Dr Brian Robertson  | Resistance to host defences (Origins)
  • Dr Jesus Rodriguez Manzano | Antibiotic consumption and misuse (Origins); Environmental drivers (Origins); Mutations and genetic changes (Origins); Vectors (Transmission); AI and machine learning (Solutions); Diagnostics (Solutions)
  • Dr Vanessa Sanchu-Shimizu | Host genetics (Infection); Precision prescribing (Solutions); Diagnostics (Solutions)
  • Professor James Seddon | Patient-Patient (Transmission); Tracking spread (Transmission); Patient management (Infection); Host genetics (Infection); Precision prescribing (Solutions); AI and machine learning (Solutions); Diagnostics (Solutions); New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
  • Dr Anand Shah | Antibiotic consumption and misuse (Origins); Environmental drivers (Origins); Patient-Patient (Transmission); Patient management (Infection); Host genetics (Infection); AI and machine learning (Solutions); Surveillance and outbreak analysis (Solutions); New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
  • Professor Robin Shattock | New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
  • Dr Avinash Shenoy | Resistance to host defences (Origins); Mutations and genetic changes (Origins); Host genetics (Infection); Pathogen biology (Infection)
  • Dr Matt Siggins | Resistance to host defences (Origins); Patient-Patient (Transmission); Tracking spread (Transmission); Pathogen biology (Infection); AI and machine learning (Solutions); Diagnostics (Solutions); New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
  • Dr Anika Singanayagam | Patient management (Infection)
  • Dr Valerie Soo | Mutations and genetic changes (Origins); Pathogen biology (Infection); AI and machine learning (Solutions)
  • Professor Shiranee Sriskandan | Mutations and genetic changes (Origins); Environmental fates of antibiotics (Transmission); New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
  • Professor Ed Tate | New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
  • Dr Teresa Thurston | Resistance to host defences (Origins); Pathogen biology (Infection)
  • | Antibiotic consumption and misuse (Origins); Resistance to host defences (Origins); Mutations and genetic changes (Origins); Tracking spread (Transmission); Surveillance and outbreak analysis (Solutions); Infection control and national programmes (Solutions)
  • Professor Chris Toumazou | Diagnostics (Solutions); Infection control and national programmes (Solutions)
  • Professor John Tregoning | New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
  • Dr Julien Vaubourgeix | Mutations and genetic changes (Origins)
  • Dr Robert Verity | Tracking spread (Transmission)
  • Professor Nick Voulvoulis | Environmental fates of antibiotics (Transmission)
  • Dr Yu Wan | Mutations and genetic changes (Origins); Horizontal gene transfer (Transmission); Surveillance and outbreak analysis (Solutions)
  • Professor Robert Wilkinson | Patient-Patient (Transmission); Pathogen biology (Infection); Precision prescribing (Solutions); New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
  • Professor Daryl Williams | Antimicrobial surfaces (Solutions)
  • Richard Wilson | Antibiotic consumption and misuse (Origins); Patient management (Infection); Precision prescribing (Solutions); AI and machine learning (Solutions); Policy and stewardship (Solutions)
  • Professor Ramesh Wigneshweraraj | Pathogen biology (Infection); New treatments and vaccines (Solutions)
  • Dr Victoria Wright | Diagnostics (Solutions)
  • Professor Sophia Yaliraki | AI and machine learning (Solutions)
  • Dr Nina Zhu | Antibiotic consumption and misuse (Origins); Patient-Patient (Transmission); Patient management (Infection); AI and machine learning (Solutions);