A novel way to prevent deadly bacterial infections
Professor Trevor Lithgow
Reported by The Australian, Professor Trevor Lithgow led a team of researchers who discovered a protein called TAM is crucial to the assembly of the anchoring filaments E. coli bacteria use to cling to the urinary tract surface. The discovery could lead to a new target for drug therapy. Their research was published in Nature Microbiology, and was covered in the media by The Australian, Science Daily , and the Medical News among others.