New antibiotic named after Leiden
Friday, March 1, 2019 - 08:50
in Health & Medicine
Increasing resistance and a lack of new antibiotics are a serious problem for public health. Against this background, Gilles van Wezel of the Institute of Biology Leiden is looking for new medicines. Together with former Ph.D. student Changsheng Wu and colleagues he discovered the special antibiotic lugdunomycin, which they named after Leiden. The discovery was recently published in the journal Angewandte Chemie.