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Claas Kirchhelle

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Lecturer in the History of Medicine, University College Dublin

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June 28, 2021

COVID vaccine trials were a triumph – now we need a similar system for antibiotics

Claas Kirchhelle, University College Dublin and Rebecca Glover, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine

A new network of public clinical trials institutes is urgently needed to replenish the empty pipeline for new antibiotics.

A.G. Sanders with penicillin extraction equipment. Image reproduced with permission of the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford

November 18, 2019

Big Pharma has failed: the antibiotic pipeline needs to be taken under public ownership

Claas Kirchhelle, University of Oxford; Adam Roberts, Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, and Andrew Singer, UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

The pipeline for new antibiotics is broken. It is time to think outside the box.

A young girl is inoculated with typhoid, Texas, 1943. Wikimedia Commons

October 30, 2019

Decades neglecting an ancient disease has triggered a health emergency around the world

Claas Kirchhelle, University College Dublin and Samantha Vanderslott, University of Oxford

We’ve known how to control typhoid for over 100 years. The rapid current increase of drug-resistant variants in both rich and poor countries is down to decades of short-sighted global health policies.

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