New NCCR fighting antibiotic resistance with D-BSSE as partner
The National Center of Competence in Research (NCCR) “AntiResist” is an interdisciplinary center for antibiotic research, which fosters collaboration of researchers from the Biozentrum/University of Basel, University Hospital Basel, and the ETH department of Biology (D-BIOL) and the D-BSSE. The aim is to find new antibiotics and develop alternative strategies to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria by linking basic research with clinical research.
The NCCR «AntiResist» pursues a unique, interdisciplinary research approach, involving the participation of clinicians, biologists, engineers, chemists, computer scientists and drug developers. This brings together critical expertise from completely different research disciplines that ideally complement each other in order to tackle one of the major challenges of modern medicine. Starting in 2020, the NCCR funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation will run for a maximum of 12 years.
The following principal investigators of ETH Zurich are involved in the NCCR AntiResist:
Karsten Borgwardt, D-BSSE Machine Learning and Computational Biology Lab
Petra Dittrich, D-BSSE Bioanalytics Group
Andreas Hierlemann, D-BSSE Bio Engineering Laboratory
Paola Picotti, D-BIOL Molecular Systems Biology
Uwe Sauer, D-BIOL Systems Biology of Metabolism
Mattia Zampieri, D-BIOL Systems Biology of Metabolism