Dear All, Our friend and colleague, Prof Rui Krause, passed away suddenly this morning [Saturday, 14 September 2024]. We are still in shock and disbelief and doing whatever we can to support his family, research group and colleagues in the Department of Chemistry. Rui was a pillar of the Rhodes Community and the warm heart […]
Harnessing the Diversity of Mother Nature! Since the end of the Golden Era of Drug Discovery at the end of the 1980's, no new antibiotic compound classes have entered the pharmaceutical pipeline, despite many attempts. This is a period in the history of antibiotics known as the Discovery Void. A lack of new agents with […]
Antibiotics are probably one of the most successful forms of chemotherapy in the history of medicine. Aminov. 2010. Frontiers in Microbiology, 1:13 The history of antibiotics is a fascinating journey that spans centuries of scientific discovery and medical breakthroughs. There have been many recent advancements in antibiotic discovery, however, it is important to recognize that […]
Preventing Antimicrobial Resistance Together WHO theme for WAAW 2023 Today, 18 November, marks the first day of this year's World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, which will run until 24 November. The theme of this year's WAAW is "Preventing AMR Together" - a concept that is vital to the success of the World's fight against the rising […]
Live stream of a lecture by Prof Marilize Le Roes-Hill (ADD Hub collaborator at CPUT). 25 April 2023 - 3pm SAST See our Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/antimicrobialdrugdiscovery) for a live stream viewing of this lecture. ABSTRACT: For more than 100 years, members of the bacterial phylum, Actinomycetota, specifically the Class Actinomycetes, have attracted interest from various […]
The Newton Fund developed a brief introductory video about the SA/UK ADD Hub. Watch here to hear from the Hub's PIs, Prof Rosemary Dorrington and Prof Mathew Upton, about the vision and purpose of the SA/UK ADD Hub, and our approach to tackling the global issue of Antimicrobial Resistance.
Dr Alexandros Polyzois of Rhodes University shares his experience attending the ASP Annual Meeting, entitled "Natural Product Solutions to Global Challenges" (23-28 July 2022). This, the first in-person meeting after two years of absence due to COVID-19, was a great event for the scientific community, which brought together scientists from the field of Natural Product […]
Dr Grant January of the University of Plymouth shares his experience attending the genome mining conference organized by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. Working in the field of Natural Product (NP) Discovery is immensely supported by computational biology approaches to identify, mine, and analyse microbial biosynthetic gene clusters (BGCs). These BGCs encode for secondary metabolites, many […]
At the beginning of this year, Dr Grant Garren January (University of Plymouth) who is a postdoctoral Fellow of the SA/UK ADD Hub Consortium, was awarded first prize in the category of Best Photographic Image – Research Staff for his submission to the University of Plymouth Images of Research Festival. This award-winning image depicts an […]
Jazmin Conway visits Rhodes University (June - August 2022) The SA/UK ADD Hub seeks to develop the capacity of Natural Product screening and drug discovery activities in Africa, to improve the capacity of African researchers to maximize use of our continent’s vast biodiversity, and to improve drug discovery infrastructure capacity of the continent. One of […]