About the project
This PhD project will develop a rapid electrical technology that can determine whether a bacterial infection is resistant or not to a particular antibiotic.
Antimicrobial resistance is predicted to become a primary cause of death by 2050, and novel approaches to diagnostics are urgently required.
The research is highly interdisciplinary and will merge disciplines of electronics, microbiology and biophysics to further our understanding of how and why the electrical properties of bacteria change after exposure to different drugs and how this can be used in diagnostics.
This PhD opportunity is for 4 years and will be fully funded for all UK and EU students.