What Anne Madden has said about Antibiotic discovery

1 quote · 1 episode · Oct 9, 2026

Anne Madden, Microbiologist and founder and chief scientist of the Microbe Institute, has been quoted on Antibiotic discovery once in 1 episode of TED Radio Hour, most recently on October 9, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.

In their words

  • Madden recounts that her pharmaceutical team found slow-growing soil microbes producing novel antibiotics, though not yet commercialized.

    “these bizarre, slow-growing, tenacious little critters were creating novel antibiotics. And though they haven't been commercialized yet, we were successful in finding them”

    TED Radio Hour: The shocking power of tiny things (Oct 9, 2026) · Listen from 7:12

Episodes

  • The shocking power of tiny things

    TED Radio Hour · Oct 9, 2026 · 50 min

    Manoush Zomorodi and TED speakers Anne Madden, Lera Boroditsky, YeYoon Kim and Bart Weetjens explore how tiny things—microbes, words, moments, rats—wield outsized power.

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