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Postdoc Heloisa Macedo and Prof. Bernhard Lehner Map Global Antibiotic Pollution

Published: 12 May 2025

Former doctoral student and current postdoc Heloisa Ehalt Macedo, along with her supervisor Prof. Bernhard Lehner, has co-authored a major new study revealing how antibiotics from human use are polluting rivers across the globe. Published with an international team, their work maps contamination hotspots and highlights urgent risks to ecosystems and public health. Read more in the McGill Newsroom article.

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