Newswise — The Theme for World Health Day is antimicrobial resistance and its global spread McMaster university experts can comment on antibiotic resistance, the search for new treatments, and the global spread of disease.
• Gerry WrightDirector, Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research
Understanding the mechanisms of antibiotic resistance and its origins, finding new solutions to treat infectious disease
• Eric BrownProfessor and Chair,Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical SciencesDirector, High Throughput Screening Laboratory
Antimicrobial research, physiology of bacteria, antibiotics for infections caused by drug resistant bacteria
• Mark Loeb Professor, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine
Respiratory infections and antimicrobial use and resistance, research trials on SARS, West Nile, Pneumonia
• Lori BurrowsProfessor, Department of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences
Assembly and function of bacterial nanomachines involved in motility and secretion of toxins, bacterial pathogenesis.
• Fiona SmaillProfessor and Chair, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine
Clinical trials of HIV management (antiretroviral therapy and complications), vaccine for tuberculosis, management of infections in pregnancy
• Marek SmiejaAssociate Professor, Department of Pathology and Molecular Medicine
Virology and clinical infectious diseases, influenza and HIV
Note to Editors - An interiew with Gerry Wright, Director, Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research, can be found at:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2ZhVIhlADYM
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