NIH Grant Awarded to Chemistry's Ashlee Plummer-Medeiros鈥痜or Bacteria Research
Assistant Professor of Chemistry Ashlee Plummer-Medeiros鈥has received a three-year, $515,000 grant from the National Institute of Health.
seeks to uncover how certain bacteria maintain the protective double-membrane barrier that helps them survive antibiotic treatment. By studying the proteins that transport lipids between these membranes, Plummer-Medeiros鈥hopes to identify new vulnerabilities that could serve as targets for future antibiotics, helping address the growing threat of antimicrobial resistance.
Like Plummer-Medeiros鈥 other NSF-funded research, this funding will allow students she works with opportunities to do both biochemical 鈥渨et lab鈥 work and computational biochemistry.
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