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The most threatening, drug-resistant bacteria are resistant to three classes of antibiotics (as defined by their mode of action or bacterial target). The
Why have so few new antibiotics been developed in the past few decades, and how can new tools be used to spur antibiotic discovery and development?
It’s alarming to me that modern drug discovery technologies have failed to yield new antibiotics but have been very successful in other therapeutic areas. I think it calls for some careful examination of the sources of failure.
Researchers at McMaster’s Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research (IIDR) have identified a promising lead in the search for new antibiotics.
In a study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, they conclude that clomiphene – a widely used fertility drug – exhibits cryptic antibacterial activity against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus (MRSA).
Off the coast of California, nearly 20,000 feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean, scientists from the San Diego Institute of
The Michael G. DeGroote Institute for Infectious Disease Research would like to congratulate fourth-year student Kali Iyer on receiving the 2015 Michael Kamin Hart Memorial Scholarship for Undergraduate Research.
