Discovery of Novel Antifungal Compounds from Extremophiles and Fungi

Research unit

INNOSUISSE

Project number

128.567 IP-LS

Project title

Discovery of Novel Antifungal Compounds from Extremophiles and Fungi

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Key words (English)	Life sciences, Pharmaceuticals
Abstract (English)	Invasive fungal infections are a growing global health threat with an urgent need for new classes of antifungal compounds. This project aims to identify and characterize the mechanism of action of novel antifungal agents from natural origin to combat multi-resistant fungal pathogens.