Tue. Mar 19th, 2024
IIT-KGR to host Global Meet on Contemporary anti-microbial research

An international conference will be held from Saturday at IIT Kharagpur where experts from the USA, UK and several other countries will discuss issues related to know-how to handle resistant micro-organisms clinically.

This is the second International Conference to be held on Contemporary Antimicrobial Research (ICCAR-2018) . “The conference is held in collaboration with the Society for Antimicrobial Research (SAR), India for three days from December 15”, a statement issued by IIT KGP said.

“The main areas in ICCAR-2018 include antimicrobial resistance mechanisms, evolution and propagation of antimicrobial resistance, new target identification,prospective antimicrobial therapeutics, structure-based drug design, clinical aspects of handling antimicrobial resistance and novel detection methods and antimicrobial resistance”, it said.

Prof Anindya S Ghosh of IIT Kharagpur asked for support in creating awareness among people “about the pros and cons of the indiscriminate use of antimicrobials”.

“This was important to reduce drug abuse and misuse,thus bringing down the adverse effect on future antimicrobial therapy,” Ghosh said.

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