Name: Developing Better Drugs!
Start: 2026-05-19T19:30:00
End: 2026-05-19T22:00:00
Location: The Fulford Arms

This exciting event has drawn together diverse researchers with a common goal - designing better treatments for human diseases! Tonight's show will explore new approaches to study and target drug-resistant bacteria, discuss novel ways to treat bone and joint disease, and examine how targeting sodium channels might stop cancer from spreading.

Glyco-Glows & Resistant Foes: Visualizing The Bacterial Sugar Armor

Greg McNeil (PhD Student in Biological Chemistry, Departments of Chemistry and Biology, University of York)

Bacteria wear a “sugar coat” on their surface that helps them infect human hosts and resist antibiotics. Using advanced microscopes and lasers that make these sugars glow under special light, we can visualise how this sugar coating works. Such insights help us understand infections and fight antimicrobial resistance more effectively.

Greg McNeil

CSI: Bacteria-Catching Antibiotics in the Act

Çağrı Özsan (PhD Student in the Department of Chemistry, University of York)

Antibiotic resistance is a growing global health problem. In this talk, I will introduce metal-based antibiotics and explain how we study what they do to bacteria, using microscopy and biology to understand how these new compounds kill bacteria.

Çağrı Özsan

The Skeleton Key: Unlocking new options for bone and joint disease

Jess Petts (DiMeN DTP PhD candidate at the University of York in Biomedical Science)

By 2050, the estimated number of people with osteoarthritis will be 1 billion! Osteoarthritis causes pain in joints such as the knees and hips, and we are currently lacking effective treatments. My research combines stem cell models with drug discovery to identify the underlying causes of osteoarthritis.

So much potential! The role of sodium in breast cancer

Mahari Rodrigo (PhD Student, Jack Birch Unit, York Biomedical Research Institute, University of York)

Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women worldwide. The development of targeted therapeutics means that over 75% of women diagnosed with breast cancer survive 10 years post diagnosis. However, patients diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer haven’t benefited from these advances and new avenues are needed to treat this type of breast cancer...could sodium be a possible solution?

Mahari Rodrigo

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