THE University of Sydney has announced that Professor Hak-Kim Chan and Dr Wojciech Chrzanowski from the Faculty of Pharmacy have been granted $511,923 by the Australian Research Council to use nano-technology to more effectively treat respiratory infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria.
The researchers will use liposomes - tiny sacs that can be designed to carry and deliver drugs to the body's cells - to develop antibiotics that can better treat drug-resistant bacterial infections than current forms of antibiotics.
The researchers will first establish an understanding of how nanoscale size drugs that are delivered in liposomes will affect bacteria and cells, and will first target the lungs as a site of infection.
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