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Cynthia Whitchurch
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Microbiologist, interested in alternate bacterial lifestyles - cell wall deficiency, biofilms
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"We have a choice: to be the generation that takes definitive action against AMR, safeguarding our health and the health of future generations. Or to be the generation that squandered the opportunity before us, potentially jeopardising modern medicine as we know it." www.lse.ac.uk/News/Latest-...

LSE Health and WHO Regional Office for Europe to develop AMR Accountability Index
LSE Health and WHO Regional Office for Europe to develop AMR Accountability Index

LSE Health will work with WHO Europe on the world's first AMR Accountability Index for Europe and Central Asia.

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Last night I was installed as a Professor of Molecular Microbiology at Nanyang Technological University. It was a fun evening of fabulous food and entertainment to celebrate newly appointed and promoted Professors. 2 months since I joined SCELSE and SBS at NTU and feel very welcome!

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Fabulous! We need more of this!

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I am really excited to announce that a new paper that I am a part of is now live. Scientists’ Call to Action: Microbes, Planetary Health, and the Sustainable Development Goals (Crowther et al., 2024) is available at the link below. 🧪🧫🦠🔬 🧵 (will be broken up by teaching) www.cell.com/cell/fulltex...

Scientists’ call to action: Microbes, planetary health, and the Sustainable Development Goals
Scientists’ call to action: Microbes, planetary health, and the Sustainable Development Goals

Microbes are essential to life on Earth and will be core, with the advent of exciting new technologies, to our ability to achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals for a sustainable fut...

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Perhaps requiring the scientific brainpower of the world to exhaust themselves on the ever-more limited funding and publication treadmills may not be the best use of this resource to solve the grand challenges facing humanity. Seems designed to keep us distracted and not challenging the systems 🤔

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Cynthia Whitchurch
@cwhitch.bsky.social
Microbiologist, interested in alternate bacterial lifestyles - cell wall deficiency, biofilms
299 followers327 following29 posts