Antibiotic resistance: Swiss physicians, vets, biologists and environmental researchers are working together to find solutions

The SNSF is launching the National Research Programme "Antimicrobial Resistance", which aims to develop new solutions to ensure that antibiotics remain effective. Worldwide, more and more pathogens are becoming resistant to today's antibiotics. The aim of European Antibiotic Awareness Day on 18 November 2016 is to highlight the fact that medicines are losing their effectiveness as a result and that once easy-to-treat infections are turning into deadly diseases. To counteract this development, the SNSF is launching the National Research Programme "Antimicrobial Resistance" (NRP 72). One Health: humans, animals and environment. "Switzerland has excellent researchers working in the various areas crucial to finding a solution to the resistance problem," says president of the NRP 72 Steering Committee Christoph Dehio. "By making a coordinated effort, we can make a key contribution to overcoming antibiotic resistance here and throughout the world." To this end, NRP 72 brings together human and veterinary medical practitioners, biologists and environmental scientists to work in an interdisciplinary setting.