Us Patent For Nanoantibiotics To Combat Antibiotic Resistance
Hongjun (Henry) Liang, Ph.D. of TTUHSC, received a patent that allows his lab to produce new nanoparticles known as nanoantibiotics that can kill certain pathogens that lead to infection without affecting healthy cells. Image credit: Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center. Hongjun (Henry) Liang, Ph.D., of the Department of Cell Physiology and Molecular Biophysics at Texas Tech University Sciences Center (TTUHSC), has focused his research on creating new nanoparticles known as nanoantibiotics that treat bacterial infections, particularly those that are resistant to treatment with commonly used antibiotics, to find solutions to the problem of antibiotic resistance....