School Notes

Date posted:   Apr 16, 2016

Professor Tim van Opijnen awarded $10 million NIH grant

Photo of map of interactions of the genes of the potentially deadly bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae with five antibiotics.

National Institutes of Health (NIH) Awards $10 million grant to Assistant Professor of Biology Tim van Opijnen, Assistant Professor of Computer Science Jose Bento, and colleagues to study how the immune system, bacteria, and antibiotics interact, and develop tools to help researchers to forecast resistant bacteria and optimal treatments. See BC news release for more details.