Synthetic viruses to treat bacterial infections

Joana Azeredo

Project awarded in collaboration with the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnología

  • PROJECT LEADER

    Joana Azeredo

  • HOST ORGANIZATION,
    COUNTRY

    Universidade do Minho, Portugal

  • DESCRIPTION

    The emergence of new pathogens, partly due to resistance to antibiotics, is a public health problem. Current drugs are generic and attack a wide variety of bacteria, including those in our intestines. Consequently, many of the treatments against bacterial infections also compromise our health.

    In nature, bacteria have their own enemies, bacteriophages. These are viruses that specifically infect bacteria and can be used in therapy to control infectious diseases.

    The project investigates the characteristics of bacteriophages, to develop innovative therapies based on synthetic viruses that attack the infection without impacting human health.

  • PROJECT TITLE

    A flexible platform for generating synthetic virus to control infectious diseases

  • BUDGET

    €492,460.48