The Canadian High Commission inLondon,U.K., will host a two-day workshop Feb. 6 and 7 for researchers working through the Canada/U.K. Partnership on Antibiotic Resistance, a collaboration of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (CIHR) and the U.K. Medical Research Council. Prof. Prof. Anthony Clarke in U of G’s Department of Molecular and Cellular Biology is co-leader of a research team studying pathogens that cause many hospital- and community-acquired infections, including organisms that are increasingly impervious to existing antibiotics.

His team is looking for new weapons against resistant bacteria, including Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Clarke will join his co-leader Chris Dowson of theUniversityofWarwickand other scientists involved in the partnership inLondonfor the meeting – a forum for experts from the academic, industrial and public health sectors to explore joint strategies to combat antibiotic resistance and improve health outcomes at the population level, as well as identify opportunities for future collaborations.

At U of G, Clarke also holds the position of assistant vice-president (graduate studies and program quality assurance).