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SCIENTISTS FIGHT SUPERBUGS WITH ‘TREASURE TROVE’ OF NEW DRUGS
SCIENTISTS AT ROBERT GORDON UNIVERSITY (RGU) IN ABERDEEN HAVE JOINED FORCES WITH AN INTERNATIONALLY RENOWNED MICROBIOLOGY AND CHEMICAL ANALYSIS COMPANY TO SEARCH FOR NEW DRUGS TO FIGHT CANCER AND COMBAT SUPERBUGS.
Dr Christine Edwards, Professor Linda Lawton and Knowledge Transfer Partnership Associate Josh Burns from RGU’s School of Pharmacy and Life Sciences are working with the National Collection of Industrial and Marine Bacteria (NCIMB), which is based in Aberdeen, to ‘mine’ their stored microbial cultures from around the world.
The research project aims to fi nd compounds that have potential for use in pharmaceutical products such as antimicrobials and anti-tumour or anti-infl ammatory medication.
During the three-year project the research team will focus on new compounds from the well- known antibiotic producing bacteria,Streptomyces. There are many different strains of Streptomyces,
which play an important role in organic matter decomposition, and are responsible for the familiar earthy smell of soil.
They also play an important role in antibiotic production, producing most of the clinically-used antibiotics of natural origin.
‘It is vital that we increase the pace of antibiotic discovery as every day we see new cases of antibiotic resistance in the UK and around the world,’ said Dr Edwards, who is the lead academic from RGU. ‘This is one of the new fronts in the battle against superbugs and cancer and we’re looking forward to starting our analysis of the cultures and fi nding out what compounds are available which will help us in these areas.’
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(L-R): RGU Professor Linda Lawton; Knowledge Transfer Partnership Associate, Josh Burns; NCIMB curator, Dr Samantha Law, and Dr Christine Edwards.
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