Kirsty Smitten harbours fantasies of one day collecting a Nobel Prize for her scientific work – and rightly so, given that it could save millions of lives and avert a medical catastrophe.At just 28, she has achieved something that hasn't been done for nearly 40 years: created a new class of antibiotics.In doing so she is leading the fight against anti-microbial resistance – what the calls one of the biggest threats to global health – which has seen bacteria, viruses, fungi and parasites evolve over time and no longer respond to medicines.
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