The BREAKthrough network is proud to welcome four more doctoral candidates to the team: Gabriela Golda (DC01), Saloni Sahu (DC02), Navjot Kaur (DC03), and Pierre Charlesworth (DC04). In August and September, the newly joined DCs started working at their new offices in the Netherlands (Amsterdam University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit

The BREAKthrough network warmly welcomes Theresa Strohhammer, who recently joined the team as DC05 at the University of Milan, Italy. In Milan, Theresa will be supervised by Prof. Alessandra Polissi while working on her project, which looks into new ways to impair the stability of the outer membrane of gram-negative

New EU-funded Doctoral Network to sensitise critical multidrug-resistant bacteria to antibiotics An alarming number of infections have become hard or impossible to treat. As more and more bacteria and viruses grow resistant to antimicrobial medicines, antimicrobial resistance is considered one of today’s greatest health threats facing humanity.[i] With innovation in

On January 10, 2023, the BREAKthrough consortium came together for the official kick-off meeting. About 30 members from 14 organisations attended the virtual 3-hour gathering. After an inspiring word of welcome from the project coordinator Prof. Jean-François Collet (UCLouvain), all participants were given the opportunity to introduce themselves to each

We are happy to announce that the BREAKthrough project has been successfully evaluated by the European Commission. The Doctoral Network will receive a total of 2.6 million euros of funding under Horizon Europe’s Marie Skłodowska-Curie Action (MSCA) programme. BREAKthrough is foreseen to start at the beginning of 2023 and run