Author: gd_support

Researchers at DTU Biosustain, Center for Biosustainability and part of the IIMENA project, explained their work contributed to the Covid-19 test samples in the Danish popular newspaper Berlingske. Read the full article here .

On 25th February 2021 at the Novo Nordisk Foundation, professor Tilmann Weber had a pleasure to give a fantastic talk with title Mining soils for drugs – Microbes as source for novel antibiotics as part of the CPH Bioscience lecture. He presented the newest research result from his group at CFB as well as from the IIMENA project where he has a role of coordinator.

The iimena project funded by a Challenge Grant by the Novo Nordisk Foundation integrates BGC discovery with innovative high throughput screening, adaptive laboratory evolution and metabolic engineering using newest technologies available, to tap into the secret world of active compounds produced by bacteria and fungi to reveal the next generation of antibiotics. Read the full article here .

Today we had the iimena annual scientific project meeting, this time online due to the COVID-19 situation, with all the partners from the IIMENA project funded by a Challenge Grant of the Novo Nordisk Foundation. The meeting allowed the partners to present their latest update on the results from the project as well as the next steps and plans for the future. We had the pleasure to introduce 3 new DTU team members and each of them had a short presentation on their projects.

Olga Genilloud the Scientific Director of Fundación MEDINA in Granada Spain, was a speaker at the B-Debate Reversing a dystopian future - New strategies to discover antibacterial agents from 12-14 November in Barcelona, Spain. She had a talk about Secondary metabolites with antibacterial activity.