Antimicrobial Resistance
Protecting the effectiveness of the medicines we depend on.
Antimicrobial resistance threatens to undermine decades of medical progress, from routine surgeries to cancer treatment. This cluster brings together microbiologists, pharmacists, clinicians, health researchers and One Health experts spanning agriculture, veterinary medicine and evolutionary biology to track resistance patterns, develop new diagnostic and treatment strategies, and inform the stewardship policies needed to preserve the antibiotics, antivirals and antifungals we rely on today and in the future.
To tackle this at a national level, EPIC is proud to be a partner in CAN-AMR-Net, a Canada-wide, One Health-focused network working to train the next generation of AMR researchers and coordinate research across human, animal, and environmental health sectors.
EPIC Antimicrobial Resistance News
From surveillance to control: U of T researchers are tackling the AMR problem from all angles
From left: Véronique Taylor, Duncan Carruthers-Lay, Marcus Dillon, Viplav Agarwal, Michael Fralick November 28, 2024 By Sunitha Chari As communities around the world marked World Antimicrobial Resistance (AMR) Awareness Week from November 18 to 24, 2024 we shine the...
How worried should I be about drug-resistant fungi? An expert Q&A with Leah Cowen and Jennie Johnstone
Leah Cowen (left) and Jennie Johnstone November 20, 2023 By Betty Zou We may not need to worry about the zombie fungus in the hit HBO television series The Last of Us but there is another real-life fungal pathogen that we should be paying close attention to. Candida...
