MIT Student Honored for Antibiotics Work
Posted in Technology, The Net on Feb 28th, 2008 No Comments »
A Massachusetts Institute of Technology graduate student has earned a $30,000 prize for work on destroying drug-resistant bacteria and keeping medical and food-processing equipment sterile.
Timothy Lu, 27, was named winner of the Lemelson-MIT Student Prize on Wednesday for developing processes to attack bacteria strains that increasingly resist antibiotics.
One of Lu’s projects involves engineering viruses called [...]
