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Piddock
Definition:
(n.) Any species of Pholas; a pholad. See Pholas.
Example Sentences:
(1) As Professor Piddock has pointed out , with such scarcity of funding, research teams tend to compete against each other rather than collaborate.
(2) This underfunding was highlighted by Ellis Bragginton and Laura Piddock from Birmingham University, who found that of almost £14bn research funding for bacteriology in the UK from 2008 to 2013, just £95m (0.7%) was awarded for work on new antibiotics.
(3) Professor Laura Piddock, of the University of Birmingham's School of Immunity and Infection, called for action to counter the "spectre of untreatable infections".
(4) Laura Piddock, professor of microbiology and deputy director of the institute of microbiology and infection at the University of Birmingham and director of Antibiotic Action, said she was glad Davies was drawing political attention to the antibiotic discovery void.
(5) Prof Laura Piddock, director of Antibiotic Action and professor of microbiology at the University of Birmingham, said the evidence supported the serious concerns that antibiotic resistance would undermine many areas of medicine, including cancer treatment.