Improving on nature: diversifying glycopeptide antibiotics to kill the bacterial pathogen Staphylococcus aureus

许多细菌已经对现有的抗生素产生耐药性，我们迫切需要新的抗生素和对抗它们的策略。我的研究集中在抗生素类，包括最后的治疗手段万古霉素。我的目标是（1）开发新的方法来杀死这些抗生素的细菌和（2）了解和重新设计这些抗生素的生产方式。这将使我的团队能够开发新的抗生素来杀死危险的细菌，如金黄色葡萄球菌。

Many bacteria have become resistant to existing antibiotics and we are badly in need of new antibiotics and strategies to combat them. My research centres on the class of antibiotics that includes the last resort therapy vancomycin. I aim to (1) develop novel ways to kill bacteria with these antibiotics and (2) understand and re-engineer the ways in which these antibiotics are produced. This will allow my team will develop new antibiotics to kill dangerous bacteria such as Staphylococcus aureus.