REACH Initiative: Protecting Our Future from AMR

Join us to launch REACH - a new LIMS initiative to tackle one of the most urgent global health challenges of our time.

Modern medicine depends on antibiotics and other antimicrobial drugs—but antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is rising so rapidly that many of these lifesaving drugs are losing their effectiveness, threatening the health and wellbeing of communities worldwide.

With AMR contributing to the deaths of five people every two minutes worldwide, we are quickly travelling us toward a future that resembles the preantibiotic era. Addressing this growing threat urgently requires us to find new ways to combat infectious disease, strengthen prevention, and protect community health.

Join us to launch REACH (Research and Engagement for Antimicrobial Resistance and Community Health) Initiative, and hear how the La Trobe Institute for Molecular Science (LIMS) is taking a leading role in tackling one of the most critical global health challenges of our time.

Bringing together speakers who have lived experience of the impact of AMR with experts from across scientific disciplines, this event will explore:

• How AMR emerges
• Why it’s accelerating
• The research underway at LIMS to combat AMR, from the discovery and development of new sustainable antimicrobials that disarm bacterial virulence, to developing targeted peptides, bacteriophages, and technologies that detect infections quickly and equitably
• How you can participate in this initiative to help protect community health and save lives.

You will also learn how LIMS’s REACH initiative supports research and fosters new collaborations by providing funding and opportunities which drive solutions to protect humans, animals, plants, and the environment from antimicrobial resistance.

We hope you can join us to learn how REACH is working to ensure that everyone, everywhere, has access to effective infection prevention and treatment.

Meet the speakers:

• Deirdre Pinto (Co-Founder and Chairperson, Chronic UTI Autralia)
• Structural microbiology: Professor Begoña Heras and Dr Jason Paxman
• Bio-inspired antimicrobials: Professor Mark Hulett
• Antifungal therapies: Professor Marylin Anderson and Dr. Kathy Parisi
• Mobile genetic elements and phages: Professor Steve Petrovski
• Antimicrobial peptides: Dr Wenyi Li

Learn about Antimicrobial Resistance: LIMS Explains: What is Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR)?