The Longitude Prize

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The Longitude Prize Deadline: 2018-09-30
Award: €10,000,000
Open to: Everyone*

Clinicians often prescribe broad spectrum antibiotics to sick patients because doctors have to act quickly on imperfect information. These methods put selective pressure on microbes to evolve resistance to antibiotics.

In order to tackle growing levels of antimicrobial resistance, the challenge set for the Longitude Prize is to invent an affordable, accurate, fast and easy-to-use test for bacterial infections that will allow health professionals worldwide to administer the right antibiotics at the right time.

We want everyone, from amateur scientists to the professional scientific community, to try and solve it.

Anyone of any age and any organisation may enter the competition as long as the team is able to demonstrate that in winning the prize it would deliver direct economic growth or benefit or social benefit in the UK.

* Details may apply. See contest website to confirm eligibility.


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