Bacterial antibiotic resistance is on the rise globally, threatening modern medicine as we know it.
Resistance to antibiotics arises when natural bacteria in our body are no longer affected by the antibiotics we use. The resulting antibiotic-resistant infection can be fatal. Nearly every medical procedure, from cancer treatment and organ transplantation to hip or joint replacement, is dependent on effective antibiotics.

This impending disaster is why our charity needs to be successful. If we don’t act now, the antibiotic era will pass, and our children and grandchildren will fail to have the benefits of antibiotics that current generations have enjoyed.

Who we are

Antibiotic Research UK (ANTRUK) was founded in 2014 to tackle antibiotic resistance. As a virtual charity, we don’t have a central office, and this allows us to spend more of your donation on research into new antibiotics and allows world-class experts to be an integral part of our work, wherever they are based.

Fighting antibiotic resistance, today and tomorrow

ANTRUK aims to raise sufficient funds over the next five years to bring at least one new antibiotic treatment to market by the early 2020’s. The research we fund will be carried out by universities and businesses in the UK and overseen by the antibiotic-resistance experts that make up our Science Committee.

We also aim to provide public and professional education and information for patients. Since the charity’s formation it has raised over £1 million, with year-on-year growth of at least 30%.