Two undergraduate students in the School of Life Sciences have been recognised for their outstanding research in the School's first Project Impact Prize.

Final-year students Archna Shah and Sarah Brocklesby explored the rapid rise of multi-drug-resistant bacteria such as; bacteria S. aureus and E. coli. The pair identified structural information of the enzymes and focused on cloning, expression, purification and crystallisation.

School of Life Sciences said: "Archna and Sarah’s clones have made a pivotal contribution to this project at its very earliest stage and we expect that the project will lead to significant advances in antibiotic drug discovery in the future."

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