Wednesday, March 16, 2011
[WATCH]: Gut bacteria and antibiotics: Michael Fischbach looks for answers
The bacteria in the human gut that produce antibiotics are the focus of a US$1 million WM Keck Foundation grant being led by Michael Fischbach, PhD, a faculty member in the School of Pharmacy at the University of California, San Francisco. He explains here the goal of the project: to identify antibiotics produced by gut bacteria and determine how these antibiotics affect the composition of the entire gut bacterial community. Research results could help reveal the causes of and new treatments for: · Crohn's disease · obesity · diabetes · colorectal cancer. Fischbach's collaborators are from Stanford University and the University of California, San Diego. The two-year Medical Research Program grant began January 2011 and is
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