Kavita Gadar

Biography

Kavita Gadar

Kavita is a second year PhD student at Brunel University in the McCarthy lab. She also completed a BSc in biomedical sciences with First-class honours from Brunel University. Her passion for antibiotic resistance stems from her undergraduate thesis, which focused on how the world’s deadliest multidrug-resistant bacteria, Acinetobacter baumannii, can evolve resistance to our last resort antibiotic, colistin. Kavita is now continuing this research and is currently focused on the discovery of novel plant-based antibiotics, that can aid in the emerging antibiotic resistance crisis that is sweeping through our hospitals worldwide.

Outside of the lab, Kavita works with an artificial intelligence company to create a comic book that raises awareness of antibiotic resistance to kids!