Eric Brown

Eric Brown is the Chair of Biochemistry and Biomedical Sciences, and the Canada Research Chair in Microbial Biochemistry. His presentation was on Multicomponent Drug Discovery to Treat Bacterial Infection. The idea is focused on new ways to kill bacteria after a 40 year innovative gap in antibiotics. Brown believes that targeting one cell in a “dense matrix” is not the way to go, but instead creating a multi component drug is more effective and at a lower cost and risk. He emphasized the fact that McMaster University is set up for this kind of research because of its HTS lab, and that he is continually in search of new partners. To read more about this research, click here.

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