Aveen Sabir presents at the Microbiology Society Conference

Aveen Sabir, a final year PhD student here at the University of Salford, was invited to present a poster at the Microbiology Society annual conference in Edinburgh on 9th April 2024. As she came to the end of her PhD journey, this was an exceptional way to showcase all the work she had done towards researching Diabetes Mellitus.

Diabetes Mellitus is a critical global disease that is increasing rapidly worldwide. Currently, 540 million individuals are diagnosed with Diabetes Mellitus worldwide. Based on the International Diabetic Federation, this is estimated to increase to 783 million by 2045. Poor wound healing and skin diseases are the most common complications of the disease.

Aveen's poster focused on reporting her recent interesting finding that bacterial lysate prepared from human skin commensal bacteria, staphylococcus epidermidis, counteracted hyperglycemia-induced changes in human skin fibroblasts in-vitro. This indicates that staphylococcus epidermis lysate might induce wound healing in Diabetes Mellitus. The poster encouraged performing further ex-vivo, in-vivo and clinical studies to investigate the safety and efficacy of staphylococcus epidermis lysate as novel therapeutic agent to treat chronic diabetic wounds.

Aveen said:

"I am extremely grateful for the full funding provided by the doctoral school of science, engineering and environment at the University of Salford, as well as the Microbiology Society to attend the conference. I would also like to thank Dr. Tanja Poppelreuter, director of Postgraduate Research Studies, as well as her PhD supervisors Dr. Sarah Withers and Dr. Joe Latimer for their continuous support in my PhD journey."