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Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages
We believe that deep-sea sponges contain diverse populations of new cultivable and non-cultivable bacteria. These represent a substantial uncharacterised and untapped source of bioactive molecules which could help meet the urgent need for new antimicrobials and have other health benefit applications.
Professor Mathew Upton
Professor of Medical Microbiology
We are recognised as an innovative leader in higher education for sustainability, across teaching and learning, research and our University operations
PLymouth ANtimicrobial EngagemenT (PLANET) Initiative
Committed to discovering new antibiotics that will ensure future health conditions can be treated
Antibiotic resistant pathogens research group
Researching pathogens that cause drug-resistant infections
Plymouth Institute of Health and Care Research (PIHR)
Conducting adventurous world-leading research with the explicit purpose of improving the health and care of the populations we serve