UTEP Fights Superbugs with $1.2 Million NIH Grant to Develop a New Way to Produce Antibiotics (IMAGE)

University of Texas at El Paso

UTEP Fights Superbugs with $1.2 Million NIH Grant to Develop a New Way to Produce Antibiotics

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Chu-Young Kim, Ph.D., center, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at The University of Texas at El Paso, is the recipient of a $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to combat superbugs by developing a biological method for producing new versions of current antibiotics that have become ineffective due to resistance. Standing with Kim are, from left, Gerardo Vargas, undergraduate research assistant, and Dayan Viera Barredo, doctoral research assistant

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J.R. Hernandez / UTEP Communications

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