NIH Awards Iu Team $3.3 Million in Fight Against Antibiotic Resistance
Monday, February 9, 2015 - 14:40
in Health & Medicine
The alarming increase of antibiotic-resistant bacteria poses health and economic threats worldwide, with more than 2 million Americans infected by the bacteria each year. Now, a team of Indiana University chemists and biologists has been awarded a major grant to develop and use a chemical tagging method to better understand how bacteria build their cell wall, which is still the best target for new antibiotics.