Funding Source: NIH R15 AREA 1R15GM151679-01 – Antimicrobial peptides are small protein molecules that kill bacteria, and they may be promising alternatives to traditional antibiotics, which can easily succumb to bacterial resistance. As part of an ongoing collaboration, members of the Radhakrishnan and Elmore labs are integrating computational and experimental techniques to design and characterize novel antimicrobial peptides with increased potency by modeling and measuring the physical interactions between the peptides and the bacterial molecules they target.

Faculty: Mala L. Radhakrishnan, Don E. Elmore
Departments: Biochemistry, Chemistry
Funding Source: NIH R15 AREA 1R15GM151679-01