FREE COMPOUND SCREENING

for antimicrobial activity

SEND COMPOUNDS

Faces of CO-ADD: interview with Professor Antonio Echavarren

Professor Antonio M. Echavarren is a Group Leader at the Institute of Chemical Research of Catalonia (ICIQ) in Tarragona, Spain and Professor of Organic Chemistry. He is a Thomson Reuters Highly Cited Researcher (since 2014) and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry since 2012. In 2015, Professor Echavarren received the Arthur C. Cope Scholar Award of the American Chemical Society.

全球搜寻新的抗生素

澳大利亚布里斯班昆士兰大学(UQ)的研究人员已经启动一项全球搜寻活动,以发现能够抗击对现有抗生素具有耐药性的超级细菌。

开放式抗菌药物发现组织(Community for Open Antimicrobial Drug Discovery )(CO-ADD)是一个非盈利项目,由英国威康信托基金会(Wellcome Trust)资助,由昆士兰大学分子生物学研究所(Institute for Molecular Bioscience)的研究人员领导。

该项目邀请全世界的化学家提交他们的化合物,进行免费抗菌活性筛查。

Superbugs with no more superdrugs

‘I had a small fall, a graze below the right knee, I didn’t think anything of it.’ Vanessa, a mother of three, looks up as she tries to remember the details of where it all began. Eight years ago she was infected with an aggressive bacteria after grazing her knee. But it wasn’t just a regular bacterial infection. Vanessa had a superbug. Emma Ceccato reports.

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