# Gerry Wright

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3.1 Introduction to antimicrobial resistance

What is AMR and why is it such an urgent challenge? What are researchers and governments doing to address it and what needs to done? In this episode, host Dr. Alex Lathbridge explores these questions with Professor Alison Holmes – president of the International Society for Infectious Diseases and r…

Feb 25: Gerry Wright, Can Fungi Infecting Humans Like in HBO’s “The Last of Us” be a Realistic Scenario?

The new HBO phenomenon ‘The Last of Us’ may not be totally unrealistic – truth is, fungi can infect people – and they’re becoming more resistant. Guest: Gerry Wright, Professor of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoi…

The fungus zombie in 'The Last of Us' are fictional, but real fungi can infect people

Guest: Dr. Gerry Wright, Professor of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, McMaster University.

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Good News: We're finally finding new antibiotics

Before we break for the holidays, The Big Story team decided to try to end our year on a positive note with a week of good news stories. We hope this week brings you hope, light and laughter. It might be our job to often deliver bad news, but that doesn't mean that's all the world is. "Superbugs" a…

The Antibiotic Debacle

The hidden battle between medicine and microbes   Since the discovery of penicillin in 1928, antibiotics have been our frontline defence against bacterial infections. But this revolutionary medicine is losing ground in the fight. Today, Antimicrobial resistance has become one of the biggest threats…

Lab-Born Leadership: Building a Global AMR Movement

Send us a text This week on The Sinclair Podcast, I sat down with one of the world's most influential scientists in antimicrobial resistance: Dr. Gerry Wright. A Killam Prize winner, Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, and the man behind over 320 published papers and 56,000+ citations — Dr. Wrig…

How can we solve the antibiotic resistance crisis? - Gerry Wright

Take a closer look at the challenges of antibiotic resistance and what we can do to prevent losing this vital medicine. --Antibiotics: behind the scenes, they enable much of modern medicine. We use them to cure infectious diseases, and to safely facilitate everything from surgery to chemotherapy to…

Canada Does Not Lack Brains. We Just Export Them.

Dr. Gerry Wright has spent 33 years at McMaster University, and this year his lab had an extraordinary run: four new antibiotic candidates, including lariocidin, a discovery published in Nature that targets a vulnerability no antibiotic on the market currently exploits. He's also spent two decades …