A Doctoral Candidate (DC) will be recruited to perform research in antibacterial drug discovery within the framework of the DN Action Grant Agreement nr. 101072632, project BREAKthrough, Breaking the barrier – An integrated multidisciplinary approach to kill Gram-negative bacteria through existing antibiotics by making their outer membrane permeable (HORIZON-MSCA-2021-DN-01). The

We wanted to take the opportunity to further introduce our BREAKthrough doctoral candidates to you. Francesca Mosca is hosted at Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and supervised by Dr. Jean-Pierre Simorre. She has a background in chemistry including organic, inorganic, analytical, physical chemistry and biochemistry and has a

The University of Milan in Italy, hosted the first annual meeting from October 2 to 4, 2023, organised as part of the EU-funded BREAKthrough MSCA Doctoral Network. This gathering marks the first-ever in-person meeting between the project’s Principal Investigators and the recently recruited Doctoral Candidates (DCs). The event’s primary aim

The BREAKthrough network is proud to welcome four more doctoral candidates to the team: Gabriela Golda (DC01), Saloni Sahu (DC02), Navjot Kaur (DC03), and Pierre Charlesworth (DC04). In August and September, the newly joined DCs started working at their new offices in the Netherlands (Amsterdam University Medical Center, Vrije Universiteit

The BREAKthrough network warmly welcomes Theresa Strohhammer, who recently joined the team as DC05 at the University of Milan, Italy. In Milan, Theresa will be supervised by Prof. Alessandra Polissi while working on her project, which looks into new ways to impair the stability of the outer membrane of gram-negative

New EU-funded Doctoral Network to sensitise critical multidrug-resistant bacteria to antibiotics An alarming number of infections have become hard or impossible to treat. As more and more bacteria and viruses grow resistant to antimicrobial medicines, antimicrobial resistance is considered one of today’s greatest health threats facing humanity.[i] With innovation in