NIH awards $1.3M grant for studying copper’s role in fighting HAI

The National Institutes of Health has given the Worcester (Mass.) Polytechnic Institute a $1.3 million grant to fund research on copper and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, according to a News Medical report.

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P. aeruginosa commonly causes hospital-acquired infections, but copper has demonstrated toxicity to the Gram-negative bacteria’s cells.

WPI researchers will use biochemical tools and genomic and proteomic data to develop a model of the copper distribution system in P. aeruginosa, according to the report.

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