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The university experts warn that it is arguably the greatest economic and healthcare challenge facing the world post-Covid and therefore the new Ineos Oxford Institute (IOI) is being set up to create collaborative and cross-disciplinary links across the sciences.
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London: The University of Oxford on Tuesday announced a major 100 million pound donation by British chemicals multinational
Ineos to create a world-leading institute to combat the silent pandemic of worldwide resistance to antibiotics.
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) currently causes an estimated 1.5 million excess deaths each year and could cause over 10 million deaths per year by 2050 and is predicted to also create a global economic toll of USD 100 trillion by the middle of the century.
LONDON, Jan 19 Britain’s Oxford University has received a donation of £100 million (RM550 million) to research growing resistance to antibiotics, the university announced today. The sum, from British chemicals multinational Ineos, is one of the largest donations given to Oxford University in.