Mark Blaskovich
@mark_blaskovich
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antibiotic hunter...
Brisbane, Queensland
Joined June 2016
..Peter Beattie, as well as current director Ian Henderson. An evening that highlights the outstanding discoveries that have led to clinical treatments, and the potential for many more!
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Special night celebrating the 25th anniversary of Australia's leading life sciences institute, UQ Institute for Molecular Bioscience. Fantastic to hear from the founders, John Mattick and Peter Andrews, along with the visionary QLD 'Smart State' premier at the time...
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#REVIVE is a great initiative to provide education around AMR, happy to play a small role!
We recently had the pleasure to discuss the progress of the #REVIVE programme and potential new activities in our second annual advisory meeting. A big Thank You to our 2026 REVIVE programme Advisory Group members: Mark Blaskovich, Olga Genilloud, Laura Hollis, Samuel Kraus,
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They doubted you Humpy. They said you couldn’t focus Humpy. They said you would never win Humpy. You proved the haters wrong Humpy.
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🗣 Speaking at the #GAMRIC2025 today, David Peterson reminded the AMR community that millions still lack the antibiotics they need. 💬 “When we communicate the problem, I think we're doing a bit of a disservice to huge populations around the world, if we're not also saying the
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🔴 Live from London🇬🇧! GARDP is at the first-ever #GAMRIC. In his opening remarks for GAMRIC, Seamus O’Brien from GARDP reminded the audience why partnerships matter: 💬 “It's important that we also work in partnership with the organizations that are involved in this meeting
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Having the full Oxford experience thanks to host Stephan Uphoff! Packed seminar in the Biochem dept talking about antibiotic discovery at @IMBatUQ, catching up with Achillefs Kapanidis, visiting the building where penicillin was first isolated to meet Georgia Isom... fantastic!
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Heading off to the Global Innovators in AMR Conference in London (GAMRIC), with stops at Exeter, Penryn, Oxford and Newcastle... if anyone's around let's meet up!
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.... is looking like the real deal in helping to achieve our vision of 'creating a world with a cure for every disease'. Congrats to all involved, particularly Mark Smythe and Greg Bourne!
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YIKES! Bacteria and fungi are conspiring to kill us!! A common gut fungus worsens infection with the food-borne bacterium Salmonella
nature.com
Nature - Interactions between the fungus and the bacterium weaken the host’s immune response.
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Biodiversity panel discussion at @qldmuseum as part of @WorldSciFest featuring @IMBatUQ group leader Irina Vetter, all about how Queensland's incredible diversity of natural products can lead to new drugs.
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Are you a world leader in medicinal chemistry? Come join Australia's leading life sciences institute to drive new drug discovery!
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A new global study estimates that 42 of every 100 primary care prescriptions contain #antibiotics, and more than half are inappropriate via @CIDRAP #AMR
cidrap.umn.edu
The systematic review and meta-analysis of studies from 51 countries also found that 57% of antibiotic prescriptions in primary care were inappropriate.Â
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I would not be here without all the hard work and dedication of the people in my group doing the actual work, so would like to particularly acknowledge all of them!
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I never imagined I would eventually join the illustrious list of IMB group leaders, and am constantly in awe of the imagination and scientific calibre of the people I now rub shoulders with. ...
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commercial arrangement. After five years and successfully getting a drug into human trials, I needed to find another job. I ended up in a lab working on antibiotics, starting my academic career journey and focus on antimicrobial resistance ....
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