New approach to combat intractable bacterial infections
Monday, January 23, 2012 - 07:31
in Health & Medicine
(Medical Xpress) -- Bacteriologist Marcin Filutowicz specializes in developing antimicrobial technologies that one day may help replace antibioticsand save livesas the power of our antibiotics arsenal wanes. But he doesnt stop there. Filutowicz has founded or co-founded three biotech companies to help ensure that his technologies actually make it into the worlds hospitals. The idea for his newest venture, Amebagone, founded this year, sprung from his work investigating a collection of soil-borne amoebas assembled decades ago by UW bacteriologist Kenneth Raper, who is best known for helping ramp up penicillin production in time to save thousands of soldiers wounded during World War II.