As early as 2050, antibiotic resistance could claim up to 10 million lives annually. Why are there no new antibiotics? And when will they appear? Innovation from Kharkiv…

In the near future, existing antibiotics will lose their effectiveness, there will be no new antibiotics, and the need for them will become critical. Every year it will become more and more difficult to treat pneumonia, sore throat, and tuberculosis. Surgical operations, such as cesarean sections or appendectomies, organ transplants, and chemotherapy will become more and more risky. People are increasingly dying from infections that humanity has long learned to treat.

Scientists around the world are currently working on a new class of antibiotics. How is this process going? What are the obstacles? Are Ukrainian scientists involved in solving this problem?

What is the current stage of development of innovative antibiotics in the laboratory of the Institute of Functional Materials Chemistry of the Institute of Single Crystals of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine? What is the innovation?

This is the subject of a conversation between Academician of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine Volodymyr Semynozhenko and a leading researcher of this Institute, Doctor of Chemical Sciences Victoria Lipson in the program “About Science. Competently” program on the YouTube channel of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine.

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