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Every now and then, New Scientist helps a carefully selected commercial partner speak to our audience. Their support helps us produce the high quality journalism we bring you every week. We hope you find today's message relevant and useful. Will you help us fight a global threat to human health? As someone interested in science, you will know how heavily modern medicine relies on antibiotics and other antimicrobial drugs.  We use them to treat everything from minor illnesses to life threatening bacterial infections, and to make all kinds of surgeries and cancer treatments safer. However, the overuse and misuse of these precious drugs has led to the rise of drug-resistant “superbugs” which pose a great threat to human health. Without urgent action, some routine medical procedures and operations will become dangerous, many common infections will become untreatable, and millions of lives will be lost. Our PhD students, learning about how human waste drives antimicrobial resistance in our rivers and coastal environment.  Thanks to gifts in Wills, the Medical Research Foundation is funding the UK’s only national PhD training programme in antimicrobial resistance, which is training the next generation of researchers to tackle this urgent global health challenge. The multi-disciplinary scheme brings together 30 PhD scientists from all sectors of science, medicine, engineering and social science to lead the UK’s antimicrobial resistance research of the future.   Please consider making this very special gift today * This email has been sent to submitpostforlive@gmail.com * Unsubscribe from further emails relating to selected third party partners from New Scientist. * Read our privacy policy   Disclaimer This message is intended only for the use of the person(s) ("Intended Recipient") to whom it is addressed. It may contain information, which is privileged and confidential. Accordingly any dissemination, distribution, copying or other use of this message or any of its content by any person other than the Intended Recipient may constitute a breach of civil or criminal law and is strictly prohibited. If you are not the Intended Recipient, please contact the sender as soon as possible.  We and our third party service providers may use cookies and other web technologies in conjunction with this email. These technologies are used to understand activity with this email and on certain portions of our website. This enables us to improve our site, your experience on our site, and the offerings that we may provide to you. If you do not want these technologies placed on your device, please opt-out of receiving emails from us. New Scientist Ltd  Registered Office: 25 Bedford Street, London, WC2E 9ES  Registered in England under Company No. 10644366  Australian Office: Suite 3, Level 11, 100 Walker Street, North Sydney NSW 2060  Registered in Australia under ABN 22 621 413 170