Interviews with our scholarship recipients

Nicola and Sarah are two exceptional nurses who are receiving our GAMA Infection Prevention Scholarship. We’re providing a full scholarship, covering all tuition fees, for them to each study a Postgraduate Diploma in Advanced Practice with focus on Infection Prevention. We caught up with both of them shortly after they’d received the good news. Nicola…

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Updates from the Healthcare Infection Society’s 2018 conference

We enjoyed the recent Healthcare Infection Society’s 2018 conference in Liverpool, and thought we’d share a few highlights. You can view all of the submitted abstracts here and the invited abstracts here. The role of the environment in the transmission of HCAI was a strong theme throughout the conference, with key speakers discussing the relative importance of contaminated…

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GAMA Healthcare updates from Infection Prevention 2017

We all enjoyed Infection Prevention 2017 — and hope that you did too! Here’s a few scientific updates relating to our product range that were presented at the conference, published in the Journal of Infection Prevention: Please feel free to contact us if you’d like any more information about these updates.

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What’s in the disinfectant pipeline?

We talk often about the ‘antibiotic pipeline’, but as the pipeline slows to a trickle, the ‘disinfectant pipeline’ is made even more important. Prof Jean-Yves Maillard from Cardiff University recently gave a talk at the HIS Spring Meeting scanning the horizon for new disinfectants. Prof Maillard began with highlighting the emerging challenge that biofilms present to effective…

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Biofilms, biofilms everywhere!

A study from Australia (click here for article) has found biofilms pretty much everywhere on an Australian ICU. The research team cut out 44 surfaces from the ICU and identified biofilms on 41 (93%) of them. This finding will be surprising for some, since biofilms are traditionally associated with hard surface – liquid interfaces (teeth, ship hulls,…

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GAMA wins People’s Choice Award

GAMA Healthcare are excited to announce that due to your support we were awarded the Cardiff University Innovation and Impact Awards – People’s Choice Award, as well as winning the Business Innovation award. We would like to thank everyone who voted for us. The award recognises the impact research has within healthcare and industry in…

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Cardiff & GAMA’s KTP rated outstanding

GAMA Healthcare are proud to have been awarded an ‘outstanding’ grade for the Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) between Cardiff School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences and ourselves. The government run partnership was established to provide additional resources for GAMA’s R&D department whilst offering valuable ‘real world’ industry experience for Cardiff’s students. The partnership provided vital…

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