The team
Dr Zyta Ziora
- Chief Investigator
- The University of Queensland
Dr Ziora received PhD in chemistry from The Wroclaw University of Science & Technology, Poland, and has wide range of experience in development of antimalarial therapeutics (the University of Montpellier, France), enzyme inhibitors and drug candidates against Alzheimer disease (Kyoto Pharmaceutical University, Japan). Her current research at UQ is dedicated mainly to projects devoted to the modification of existing antibiotics, and complexing them with additional antimicrobial agents, like metal ions, to produce more potent alternatives and, by this, to overcome the drug resistance of superbugs. She is also working on an alternative to antibiotics, nature-derived compounds with antimicrobial potency to treat skin problems in animals and humans, such small wounds and injuries, microbial infections and to prevent skin cancer.
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