The event was held in connection with World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, an initiative launched by the World Health Organization (WHO). The symposium aimed to spread awareness of the burgeoning antibiotic resistance crisis that threatens humanity worldwide.

As a result of drug resistance, antibiotics and other antimicrobial medicines become ineffective, and infections become increasingly difficult or impossible to treat.

Anti-Microbial Resistance (AMR) has emerged as a significant public challenge in recent years where bacteria, viruses, fungi, and parasites no longer respond to medicines, making infections harder to treat and increasing the risk of disease spread, severe illness, and death.

As a result of drug resistance, antibiotics and other antimicrobial medicines become ineffective, and infections become increasingly difficult or impossible to treat.

To combat this menace, a better understanding of resistance mechanisms is needed to facilitate novel approaches to diagnostics and therapeutics, stated Dr. Bipin Nair, Dean of Life Sciences at Amrita School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham.

It is evident that several complementary, overlapping, collaborative, and synergistic approaches with unified goals will be essential to ensure, support, and sustain access to effective antimicrobial therapies, according to Dr. Bipin Nair, Dean of Life Sciences at Amrita School of Biotechnology, Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, who has recently been appointed by the Govt. of India as the Vice Chair of the India AMR Innovation Hub (IAIH), a national-level body handling research related to antimicrobial resistance.

Bipin Nair was speaking at Amrita Legion of Antimicrobial Resistance Management (ALARM) 2022, a two-day hybrid Symposium titled “Preventing Antimicrobial Resistance - Together We Can” organized by Amrita Vishwa Vidyapeetham, ranked the 5th Best Overall University in India.

The event was held in connection with World Antimicrobial Awareness Week, an initiative launched by the World Health Organization (WHO). The symposium aimed to spread awareness of the burgeoning antibiotic resistance crisis that threatens humanity worldwide.