Press Releases and Stories
2023
News
HKUST Researchers Develop World’s Most Productive Chemical Synthesis of Anthracimycin
A research team from the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) has developed the world’s most productive chemical synthesis which could yield antibiotic anthracimycin and anthracimycin B that is 63 times more than current method.
2018
Press Releases
HKUST Discovers New Antibiotics Resistance Mechanism Paving the Way for Design of Antibiotics Against Superbugs
Researchers at The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) have identified for the first time the culprit behind the causing of broad-spectrum bacterial resistance to peptide antibiotics - widely perceived as the last-line of defense against antibiotic-resistant bacteria, opening a