Institute of Chemical Biology
Discovery of natural compound may help fend off antibiotic resistance of hard-to-treat infections
Aug. 19, 2020—A bifunctional natural compound has been discovered with the potential to make antibiotic resistance to deadly infections less likely.
Faster (cheaper) method for making big bioactive ring molecules
Dec. 12, 2016—A pair of Vanderbilt chemists have developed a faster, cheaper method for synthesizing ring molecules called cyclic depsipeptides found in antibiotics, anti-retrovirals and pesticides.