Post / Biotics
Joint Winner: Innovate UK Innovation for Living Award
Post/Biotics is a toolkit that empowers citizen scientists to reduce sole reliance on pharmaceutical companies to develop new antibiotics. Most known antibiotics are developed from natural extracts, so a potential new antibiotic could be anywhere. The toolkit allows people to test their surroundings (soil, vegetation, insects etc.) for antimicrobial properties. It also creates awareness of the ill-effects of consuming antibiotics without prescription and best practice when on an antibiotic dosage.
Judge’s comment:
" A wonderfully well researched
and socially based project that hit all the right notes from the outset, moving
the dynamic of co-creation a step further.”
Jackie Marshall-Balloch, Innovate UK
This Award is sponsored by Innovate UK