Fundación MEDINA keeps working on the investigation of new antibiotics and is one of the three participants of the Project IIMENA “Integration of Informatics and Metabolic Engineering for the discovery of Novel Antibiotics” financed by the Novo Nordisk Foundation. This new 7.7 M euros research program is led by the new center DTU-Biosustain (Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Biosustainability) of the Technical University of Denmark and counts with the active participation of Fundación MEDINA and KAIST, the Korea Advanced Institute for Science and Technology. During the 6 years of duration, the project will allow for integrating the experience and capabilities of Fundación MEDINA in the discovery of new antibiotics together with the new bioinformatics engineered platforms developed by DTU and KAIST. MEDINA’s microorganism collections will be the starting point of the evolutionary experiments conducted for the induction of the production of new antibiotics and the identification of new biosynthetic systems within the consortia.
(http://www.medinadiscovery.com;http://www.biosustain.dtu.dk/english/Nyhedsbase/Nyhed?id=2f2e864a-b18b-49fa-9353-e30ab639e747
