Griffith University is taking on the deadly flu virus wiping people out this season through an innovative partnership with German research institutes.
Researchers from the Fraunhofer Institute for Toxicology and Experimental Medicine (ITEM) have teamed up with the Hannover Medical School (MHH) and Griffith’s Institute for Glycomics on the Gold Coast for the
project called ‘iCAIR – Fraunhofer International Consortium for Anti-Infective Research’ to develop new anti-infective drugs.
This project will discover new treatments that combat respiratory viruses including influenza virus and respiratory infection-causing bacteria and fungi.
Professor Reimund Neugebauer, president of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, said antibiotics were becoming less effective against multi-resistant bacteria.
“Because bacteria keep developing new resistance to antibiotics there is a desperate need for new medications,” he said.
“We urgently need to develop new drugs and find new ways to transfer them from research into clinical trials, and that is why Fraunhofer will be redoubling its efforts in this area.”
Professor Armin Braun, division
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