16th JPIAMR transnational call for research projects - AMR diagnostics and surveillance 2023 (DISTOMOS)

General Information

• Type: Partner looking for project
• Organisation: University of Kwa-Zulu Natal
• Country: South Africa (ZA)
• Career stage: Other.

Research area

• Scientific area(s) of the call:
  1. Topic 1: to develop novel, or improve existing, diagnostics, including point of care diagnostics, that can rule out antimicrobial use or help identify the most effective antimicrobial treatment
• One Health Setting:

  Human Health

  Animal Health (incl. wild-life, livestock, acquatic organisms, and companion animals)

• Keywords:

  synthetic chemistry; computational chemistry; Metallo-beta-lactamase inhibitors; in vivo; in vitro

• Brief description of your expertise / expertise you are looking for:

  We are based in South Africa; our team are experts in synthetic organic chemistry as well as computational chemistry. We are making novel Metallo-beta-lactamase inhibitors that already display excellent in vitro and in vivo efficiency. We can do microbiology testing and in vivo animal trials.

• Brief description of your project / the project you would like to join:

  We are based in South Africa; our team are experts in synthetic organic chemistry as well as computational chemistry. We are making novel Metallo-beta-lactamase inhibitors that already display excellent in vitro and in vivo efficiency. We can do microbiology testing and in vivo animal trials.

Tricia Naicker

• Organisation: University of Kwa-Zulu Natal
• Position: Professor
• E-mail: naickert1@ukzn.ac.za
• Phone: +27827729578
• Web: cpru.ukzn.ac.za