Investigating the antimicrobial activity of zinc at the host-pneumococcal interface

Funding Activity

Website
http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1142695

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Streptococcus pneumoniae is a human-only bacterium that is responsible for killing more than one million people every year. This project will analyse how the human immune system fights this bacterium, and subsequently, how the bacteria manages to subvert these attacks and survive in the human host. This will provide crucial information for developing new drugs against this pathogen, in an attempt to combat the ever-increasing problem of antibiotic resistance.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2018

End Date: 01-01-2021

Funding Scheme: Early Career Fellowships

Funding Amount: $318,768.00

Funder: National Health and Medical Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Medical Bacteriology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

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Other Keywords

Streptococcus pneumoniae | infectious diseases | macrophages | molecular microbiology | zinc

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