Australian Research Council Launches CEAStAR

Dr Richard Johnson, Acting CEO of the Australian Research Council, officially launched the Centre for Environmental and Agricultural Solutions to Antimicrobial Resistance (CEAStAR) on Friday, 05 July.

Hosted at at The University of Queensland’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience, the event brought together stakeholders from government, industry and academia across the human, animal, and environmental sectors to celebrate a milestone in our journey to tackling antimicrobial resistance.

The rise of antimicrobial resistance has been accompanied by a dramatic decline in investment in the development of new antibiotics and a consequent brain-drain of antimicrobial expertise. Tens of thousands of industrial antibiotic researchers have left the field. CEAStAR aims to address this by training a new generation of antimicrobial research scientists, starting with the Centre’s 13 HDR students and 5 postdoctoral fellows.

For more details, read the UQ News Release.

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