Antibiotics from the medieval medicine cabinet

Hello super crowdfunders, we wanted to let you know some follow-up news from the crowdfunding campaign. In early 2018 we were awarded a research grant from the health chart Diabetes UK. This will allows us to explore the chemistry of Bald's eyesalve, find out exactly which bacteria it can kill,…

You are all amazing! Thanks to your generosity, we will shortly be advertising two undergraduate summer studentships. The funding will allow us to employ one student for a five-week project, and one for a four-week project, and to cover the costs of lab consumables for both students. We decided to…

Hello all,

A couple of you have asked why we are crowdfunding for a small amount rather than being backed by government or private funding. We did the initial research on this topic (a fair amount of lab work) on a £5,000 sandpit grant that we were awarded by the University…

We'll use the overfunding to either a) extend the length of the student placement, or b) offer two students a (possibly slightly shorter) project each. Which we choose will depend on the pool of applicants and the timing of their university vacations. Many thanks once again for your generosity, we're…

Just a quick note to say how stunned we are at people's generosity.  We will post again soon to specify what we wil do with the overfunding, but rest assured that it will all go towards work on this specific project.  Freya presented the work today at the Society for…