Hillsborough, NC (May 29, 2009) — Mycosynthetix, Inc., a privately-held Hillsborough biotechnology company, was recently awarded a Phase I Small Business Innovation Research grant from the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases for the project New Tuberculosis Antibiotics from Filamentous Fungi 한메 타자 다운로드.
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Mycosynthetix owns one of the largest collections of fungi in the world and uses them as a source of new medicines and agricultural pesticides 십이지천2 다운로드. Mycosynthetix has established an in-house program focused on neglected diseases and in addition to the current project addressing TB, work on the discovery of new anti-malarial products is ongoing in collaboration with scientists at the University of South Florida, the University of Hong Kong and Magellan BioScience Group; this latter project is funded by the Medicines for Malaria Venture in Geneva, Switzerland Summerwars download. More information can be found at www.mycosynthetix.com.
About The Institute for Tuberculosis Research
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