Microbes Saving Lives and Reducing Suffering

Kenneth Timmis¹, Zeynep Ceren Karahan², Juan Luis Ramos³, Omry Koren⁴, Ana Elena Pérez-Cobas^{5

6}, Karen Steward⁷, Victor de Lorenzo⁸, Elisabetta Caselli⁹, Margaret Douglas¹⁰, Clarissa Schwab¹¹, Virginia Rivero¹², Rafael Giraldo¹³, Junkal Garmendia^{14

15}, Raymond J Turner¹⁶, Jessamyn Perlmutter¹⁷, José M Borrero de Acuña¹⁸, Pablo Ivan Nikel¹⁹, Jerome Bonnet²⁰, Angela Sessitsch²¹, James K Timmis^{22

23}, Carla Pruzzo²⁴, M Auxiliadora Prieto¹², Siavash Isazadeh²⁵, Wei E Huang²⁶, Gerard Clarke^{27

28}, Danilo Ercolini²⁹, Max Häggblom³⁰

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Microbiology, Technical University Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.
² Department of Medical Microbiology and Ibn-i Sina Hospital Central Microbiology Laboratory, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
³ Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, Granada, Spain.
⁴ Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel.
⁵ Department of Microbiology, Ramón y Cajal Institute for Health Research (IRYCIS), Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, Madrid, Spain.
⁶ CIBER in Infectious Diseases (CIBERINFEC), Madrid, Spain.
⁷ Technology Networks, Sudbury, Suffolk, UK.
⁸ Department of Systems Biology, National Centre of Biotechnology CSIC, Madrid, Spain.
⁹ Section of Microbiology, Department of Environmental and Prevention Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
¹⁰ Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh Medical School, and Public Health Scotland, Edinburgh, UK.
¹¹ Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
¹² Polymer Biotechnology Lab, Biological Research Center Margarita Salas, Spanish National Research Council (CIB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
¹³ Department of Microbial Biotechnology, National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
¹⁴ Instituto de Agrobiotecnología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IdAB-CSIC)-Gobierno de Navarra, Mutilva, Madrid, Spain.
¹⁵ Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain.
¹⁶ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
¹⁷ Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
¹⁸ Department of Microbiology, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain.
¹⁹ The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.
²⁰ Centre de Biochimie Structurale, INSERM/CNRS, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
²¹ Bioresources Unit, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria.
²² Department of Political Science, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
²³ Athena Institute for Research on Innovation and Communication in Health and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
²⁴ Department of Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences (DISTAV), University of Genoa, Genova, Italy.
²⁵ Corporate Technical & Performance, Veolia North America, Paramus, New Jersey, USA.
²⁶ Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
²⁷ APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
²⁸ Department of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
²⁹ Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy.
³⁰ Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.

PMID: 39844583
PMCID: PMC11754571
DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.70068

Editorial

Microbes Saving Lives and Reducing Suffering

Kenneth Timmis et al. Microb Biotechnol. 2025 Jan.

. 2025 Jan;18(1):e70068.

doi: 10.1111/1751-7915.70068.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Institute of Microbiology, Technical University Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany.
² Department of Medical Microbiology and Ibn-i Sina Hospital Central Microbiology Laboratory, Ankara University School of Medicine, Ankara, Turkey.
³ Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Estación Experimental del Zaidín, Granada, Spain.
⁴ Azrieli Faculty of Medicine, Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel.
⁵ Department of Microbiology, Ramón y Cajal Institute for Health Research (IRYCIS), Ramón y Cajal University Hospital, Madrid, Spain.
⁶ CIBER in Infectious Diseases (CIBERINFEC), Madrid, Spain.
⁷ Technology Networks, Sudbury, Suffolk, UK.
⁸ Department of Systems Biology, National Centre of Biotechnology CSIC, Madrid, Spain.
⁹ Section of Microbiology, Department of Environmental and Prevention Sciences, University of Ferrara, Ferrara, Italy.
¹⁰ Usher Institute, University of Edinburgh Medical School, and Public Health Scotland, Edinburgh, UK.
¹¹ Department of Biological and Chemical Engineering, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark.
¹² Polymer Biotechnology Lab, Biological Research Center Margarita Salas, Spanish National Research Council (CIB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
¹³ Department of Microbial Biotechnology, National Centre for Biotechnology (CNB-CSIC), Madrid, Spain.
¹⁴ Instituto de Agrobiotecnología, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (IdAB-CSIC)-Gobierno de Navarra, Mutilva, Madrid, Spain.
¹⁵ Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red de Enfermedades Respiratorias (CIBERES), Madrid, Spain.
¹⁶ Department of Biological Sciences, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
¹⁷ Department of Molecular Biosciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA.
¹⁸ Department of Microbiology, Universidad de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain.
¹⁹ The Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark.
²⁰ Centre de Biochimie Structurale, INSERM/CNRS, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
²¹ Bioresources Unit, AIT Austrian Institute of Technology, Vienna, Austria.
²² Department of Political Science, University of Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany.
²³ Athena Institute for Research on Innovation and Communication in Health and Life Sciences, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
²⁴ Department of Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences (DISTAV), University of Genoa, Genova, Italy.
²⁵ Corporate Technical & Performance, Veolia North America, Paramus, New Jersey, USA.
²⁶ Department of Engineering Science, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
²⁷ APC Microbiome Ireland, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
²⁸ Department of Psychiatry & Neurobehavioral Sciences, University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
²⁹ Department of Agricultural Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy.
³⁰ Department of Biochemistry and Microbiology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.

PMID: 39844583
PMCID: PMC11754571
DOI: 10.1111/1751-7915.70068

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Conflict of interest statement

G.C. received honoraria from Janssen, Probi, Boehringer Ingelheim and Apsen as an invited speaker, and research funding from Pharmavite, Reckitt, Tate and Lyle, Nestle, Fonterra and is or has been a paid consultant for Heel Pharmaceuticals, Bayer Healthcare, Yakult and Zentiva. The other authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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