Antimicrobial Resistance | Boon Chong Goh | TEDxPSBAcademy

How many of us have been guilty of not completing our prescribed dose of antibiotics as soon as we felt better? Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) occurs when bacteria and other germs change over time and no longer respond to medicine. Resistance can develop as soon as 1 year from the introduction of a new antibiotic, whereas it takes 10 years to develop a new antibiotic. As the death number due to AMR is projected to rapidly increase, what can we do to slow down the process? Is there an alternative to antibiotics? With AMR becoming an increasingly urgent topic, what are our current efforts to combat it? Dr. Boon Chong Goh is a principal research scientist at the Singapore-MIT Alliance for Research and Technology (SMART). His research team focuses on the development of novel antimicrobial agents targeting antibiotic-resistant bacteria using protein engineering, structural biology, and high-throughput screening. He received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign under the supervision of the late Prof. Klaus Schulten in the Theoretical and Computational Biophysics group. Dr Goh is the founder and CEO of the newly incorporated biotech startup ArrowBiome. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at www.ted.com/tedx