The Department of Microbes, Infection and Microbiomes is home to world leading academics working across pathogen biology, microbial genomics, and human microbiome research with a clear emphasis of research with importance to human health.
The department co-hosts a theme in our NIHR BRC (Infections and Acute Care) and is home to the only MHRA approved Microbiome Treatment Centre in the UK, providing faecal microbiome transplants to patients with recalcitrant C. difficile infections. We also have one of the largest portfolios of UKRI funded Antimicrobial resistance projects in the UK, a vitally important research area in which we are world renowned. we are integrated into the world renowned Institute of Microbiology and Infection. At the heart of everything we do is an unwavering dedication to ground-breaking, fundamental microbiology research – something that has been integral to the University of Birmingham since its foundation more than a century ago.
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