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Northeastern receives $9M grant to fast track the discovery of new antibiotics

A team led by University Distinguished Professor of Biology Kim Lewis received a five-year, $9 million grant from the National Institute of Health’s National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases to launch a novel platform for developing antibiotics that kill pathogens without encountering resistance.
July 11, 2016

Northeastern research the buzz of 2015

In Jan­uary, a research team including Uni­ver­sity Dis­tin­guished Pro­fessor Kim Lewis and Dis­tin­guished Pro­fessor Slava Epstein pre­sented a newly dis­cov­ered antibi­otic that elim­i­nates pathogens without encoun­tering any detectable resis­tance. The ground­breaking research swept the globe, and now one analysis indi­cates that the paper topped the list of the 100 sci­en­tific arti­cles receiving the most media buzz and online atten­tion in 2015.
December 16, 2015

Highway of dreams for microbiologists

A few years ago, biologists Slava Epstein and Yoshiteru Aoi fantasized about a device that would work like a highway lane closure to isolate pure bacterial samples from the environment. They teamed with assistant professor of chemical engineering Ed Goluch to make this a reality.
July 02, 2014

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