Antibiotics and Antibiotic Resistance

Biography

Sanjib Bhakta is currently a full-Professor of Molecular Microbiology and Biochemistry, Strategic Dean (Internationalisation and Partnership) and Programme Director of MRes Global Infectious Diseases at the Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology, Birkbeck, University of London and UCL. Following a BSc (Hons), an MSc and a PhD in Molecular Microbiology & Biochemistry from world class Universities & Research Institutions in India, Dr Bhakta joined the Oxford University Division of Medical Sciences as an Oxford University innovation Senior Research Scholar and shortly after he was awarded with a Wellcome Trust International post-doctoral Fellowship. He graduated from The Queen’s College, University of Oxford completing a second doctoral degree (DPhil in Pharmacology) and received a “Sir William Paton Prize” from the Oxford University Division of Medicine. He is an “Antibiotic Action Champion” member of the British Society for Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.

Research Interest

Tackling antimicrobial resistance in global infectious bacterial pathogens including Mycobacterium tuberculosis. His graduate research was on the structural and functional characterisation of β-lactam drug targets. He has also investigated a number of endogenous pathways and molecular machines (cell-wall and cell-division associated proteins) and the role of transporter proteins in relation to efflux-mediated antimicrobial resistance.