Project highlights: to discover and validate small molecules that target the ability of bacteria to become dormant, leading to a nonspecific tolerance to antibiotics during infections. Assay validation in a 1536-well plate format. During this period, the NCGC has fostered and maintained over 180 active collaborations with both NIH and extramural investigators, facilitating drug discovery efforts across the entire spectrum of human disease. These efforts have led to over 100 high-throughput screens and nearly 60 medicinal chemistry campaigns, providing our collaborators and the general research community a wealth of publications and promising small molecule leads. In addition, the NCGC has undertaken a number of informatic challenges to make better use of existing drug and disease target information and provide the general public with easily accessible resources, further catalyzing the development of new therapies for human disease.
| Coussens, Nathan P; Molinaro, Ashley L; Culbertson, Kayla J et al. (2018) Better living through chemistry: Addressing emerging antibiotic resistance. Exp Biol Med (Maywood) 243:538-553 |
